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Baby Derby Will there be a baby derby at Nationals? If so, what is the age range?

I understand about Friday night; my question is regarding Saturday night after the show. Since we will have a 9 hour drive home, we will be staying in a hotel Saturday night after the show. I need to know if we can leave the chins in the show hall overnight that night or if I need to find a...

Show Hall Will the show hall be available to leave the animals overnight Saturday night and pick up Sunday morning?

East Tennessee Chinchillas plans to attend; we will bring 16-18 chins and a raffle prize.

Last year we lost a mom of quads when the kits were 10 days old. We farmed one out with a foster mom and hand fed the other three. We found that they liked the canned goats milk better than the fresh. We also mixed a little Dyne with the goats milk. Once they got a little older we hung it on...

Is this a claim show?

I will miss the show because I am at home recovering from a heart attack that I had on March 3rd. My chins will be there though! My daughter and daughter-in-law are showing 11 of my chins for me.

Thanks Becky. We are bringing 8 or 9. First show where we will be showing chins that we bred; very exciting.

Leaving animals at the 4H building Will we be allowed to leave the animals in the building Saturday night and pick them up early Sunday morning (like last year)?

Hey Cassie, We are mostly using breeding runs. When we first started out, I built 12 cages with slide out metal pans that were roughly 20" wide X 24" deep X 24" tall. Later we purchased some 3-hole breeding runs and have continued to add a few more each trip up to Ohio. I have retired 6 of...

We started off kinda fast. We bought two male chinchillas for pets on August 1, 2011. We fell in love with the little guys right away. Not long after that, we bought two females, then two more males and two more females. We were up to about 20 at the time of MCBA Nationals this year. We...

We have found that some times when we place a kit with a surrogate that it takes a day or two before the kit starts to gain. We have also had kits that refused to accept a surrogate mom (even though the new mom seems to accept the kit). We had one set of triplets that we had to bottle feed due...

We have had two litters of quads and three litters of triplets this year. With one of the triplet litters the mom did not have much milk at all. The kits were nearly two weeks old before they gained back to their birth weight. When they were three weeks old the mom became very aggressive with...

We use shredded aspen bedding and ours will nibble on it too. We have a 6 month old that has a wooden house that he has almost devoured.

Sometimes they may look a little greasy from the oil in your skin from handling. If the eyes are watery or if you see any discharge (like puss) take it to a vet to get some antibiotic eye drops.

You may try giving them an unfrosted cheerio or two; just don't overdo it. They love them. The other thing I do is open the cage and gently place my hand slightly inside the cage. I just sit there for a while, maybe 5-10 minutes. They will usually get curious and come up to my hand and sniff...

What type of bedding do you use? We use Aspen and it seems to absorb a little better than pine.

We use Oxbow. When you look at the package it should look green; if it is mostly brown, it is probably old.

Check his weight You may want to monitor his weight. It is normal for a chin his age to gain 5-6 grams a day. Often when a chin changes environments their appetite will drop off for a few days and then pick up. His increase in appetite since you got him may be that has has gotten comfortable...

Scales I use Pelouze postal scales; they have a 5# capacity and can be switched from pounds and ounces to grams. I place a light weight plastic container on the scales first, then when I turn the scales on it zeroes with the container in place. That way when I place the chin in the container...