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I'm looking for some advice on cleaning my male chin's abscess. It formed on the right side of his scrotum about a week after he was neutered. I brought him in last night and they drained it and stitched him up. I ended up having to bring him in again tonight because I was worried at how much...

I'm looking for some help and advice on how to hand feed my male chinchilla critical care. Yesterday he was neutered and since then he hasn't eaten much. I see a few droppings in his cage and I've tried mixing some critical care and water and syringe feeding but I don't think I'm doing it...

I just have to share this adorable picture of my male chin. He's been without his tube for about a month now (chewed up the cardboard tube) and today I got my order in from Brittany for a replacement PVC pipe. So I covered the tube and put it on the bottom of his cage before I drilled holes into...

I treated both my male and female for coccidia. They both got albon but I also had to give my female baytril for a week because she was presenting with signs of a URI. Both chins have been doing great and very active but I'm noticing my female has really small stools. It's hard to even tell the...

I am currently treating my female for coccidia and having been giving her Albon every night for the past 5 nights. She is currently nursing two, 1 month old kits. Tonight after giving her meds, I gave her and the kits a dust bath and Mom sneezed 10+ times and kept wiping her nose after the dust...

My male chin chewed his cardboard tube to the point that he can't lay in it anymore. I would really prefer to buy him a PVC pipe to use instead but I can't seem to find one at a home depot/lowes. Any one have any recommendations on where to buy one or a large enough cardboard tube? I already...

I just noticed today that my male chinchilla is starting to have moist sticky stools. I noticed some smushed on one of his ledges and the stools are sticky enough that 4 or more will stick together in clumps. I feed him timothy hay and mazuri pellets and provide fresh filtered water. Could this...

My female chinchilla gave birth to twins yesterday morning. I separated the male and female prior and baby proofed the cage. When I went downstairs yesterday afternoon I saw two little kits walking around. They were all dried, eyes open and very active. The mommy has always been a very active...

I'm looking for some advice on how to add fleece to the sides of my ferret nation cage to make a "poop barrier". I just want to add something to help decrease the amount of poop that ends up on the floor everyday, even though I know my little ones love throwing it lol. A lot of it seems to come...

Monday morning I was sitting next to Jade's cage and could hear her making little wheezing sounds and when I held her chest against my ear I could her some slight wheezing. We immediately brought her to the emergency exotic vet. The doctor heard a little wheezing in her chest but her teeth...

My one chin has been chewing on his FN cage every night since we've changed cages about 3 weeks ago. A couple days ago we noticed that there was a small patch of fur missing on his face. He has a "rat" face so when he chews on the bars more of his face fits through the bars. I've been assuming...

I'm looking for some advice on my one chin is chews his FN 182 every night. No matter how many toys, lava rocks, wood blocks, etc I put in, he continues to chew on his cage. How can I prevent this from happening? I'm really concerned that this could harm his teeth.

McKinley is never a fan of the cage cleaning.... Apparently Jade doesn't understand the concept of the hanging house lol Comfy much? How can you say no to this face!? Peek a boo!!

So I figured I'd update everyone on our recent rescue chin, Jade. We've had her for almost 3 weeks now and things are going great! She's become A LOT less skittish with us and even lets me pet her and give her scratches when she's in the cage. When we first let her out the first few times she...

So I decided to change my one chin's pellets since I realized the ones I have been given him have been of pretty poor quality. I've been adding Mazuri slowly to his bowl but he just keeps picking out the Mazuri and leaving the old pellets. I know it's a good thing for him to like the Mazuri but...

So my one new chin Jade keeps taking some of her hay and putting it on the ledge and then constantly peeing there. It makes the ledge really disgusting and the cage smell awful! I just cleaned her cage yesterday and she already grabbed some hay and peed on the ledge again! Is there anything you...

I just wanted to inform the forum about a rescue that I learned about via craigslist that is in Vermont. I'm assuming it's a credible source since there is no information on the internet about breeders or rescues in Vermont. I know some people have trouble finding breeders in Vermont so I...

Right now I have two chins, one we've had for about 4 months and the other we've only had for about 4 days. We're looking to get a bigger cage eventually and house them together but keep them in separate levels. It is a male and female pair and I don't plan on breeding them but may get the male...

So our new chin Jade seems to be peeing on a ledge where I put her hay. I moved her hay but the ledge is pretty gross and smells. We've had her for about 4 days now so I was wondering if it's too early to be taking the ledge out and cleaning it? I know they're very stressed out when they are in...

What websites does everyone recommend to buy their chin food from? Also, what do you suggest is the best brand of pellets and hay?