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Looking to find a good food dish that can be mounted to the side of my FN-142 cage. Trying to find something that is fairly rugged as we have one or two chins who love to empty their dishes when they get upset with you. Ideally they would hold between 1.5c to 2c worth of food. Any suggestions?

Today my wife and I noticed that one of our chin babies who is about 4 months old has what appears to be an eye injury. His left eye appears to have what looks like a cataract, about two thirds of the eye starting from the tear duct area going back looks silvery in nature and cloudy. The rest...

Wondering if anyone is familiar with Birdsfoot trefoil as an ingredient in hay mixes? I found a local source, which bails primarily timothy hay; however, it also contains birdsfoot trefoil, which was described to me as the following; "Birdsfoot trefoil is like a legume such as alfalfa. It is a...

I know that people have mentioned in path threads that it is OK for chinchilla babies to be introduced with dad. Our latest set of kits (only one) is almost getting ready to be weened from mom. All babies are male and we are wondering if it is possible to introduce them with dad and house them...

One of our chins lately has been really going at it in regards to chewing the bars of her cage and the metal edges of her pans. She has plenty of chew toys and almost 8' worth of KD wooden ledges and huts. We recently moved her into the top half of an FN-142; however, that as over a month ago...

I was fortunate to catch Bonny and her three boys cuddled up together on one of her ledges. I did not dare to set up better lighting for my camera, so I shot on automatic with my DSLR and used a partial bounce card to catch this moment. Pictured from left to right; Bonny, Geronimo, Fluff and...

The wife and I were trying to get the 3 new baby chins to bath tonight. We tried using a smaller mason quart sized jar so they could bath without being tumbled upon. A few seconds after the 3rd chin decided they wanted nothing to do with the jar, Bonny the mom zipped under my arm and tried to...

Is there a certain age range or guideline for when new chins can get their first baths? Just watched our littlest guy rolling around as if he had found some dust.

Curious for those of you making liners how many yards you estimate purchasing per liner or set of liners? My wife and I are headed out to the store shortly to purchase a pile of fleece. Hoping to get enough fleece for four non-cut out FN-142 style bass pans.

Curious if there is a certain point when you stop supplementing? Our little guy is still getting his 2/3 hour feedings. Most feedings he easily takes 1ML of supplement. he hit 45g today and his siblings are just about twice that in size. Gus Gus his bigger standard brother is 91g and his...

Ran across this link on digg.com today with a bunch of really cute hedgie pictures. http://snuzzy.com/hedgehog-weight-loss-program/

One of our rescues Bonnie, who has been separated from her male friend Jack since we rescued her gave birth today. The kits look healthy. She has cleaned them and is nursing them. Both kits have their eyes open. She is paying attention to both of them. I read through the FAQ real quick...

Our first chin Cheecher's who is our resident black velvet deva got partially evicted from her FN-142. We had to make room for Master ChinFu so we divided the cage top and bottom. Since there was so much going on Cheecher's got placed in a show cage for about 10 minutes while we unbolted...

So our 4th chin Master ChinFu has expert sholin training in regards to destroying anything made of lava perch materials. Wondering if there is another similar product that is not as expensive to use? He has plenty of wood and apples twigs... Buts does not seem to chew them nearly as much.

Saw an update on this animal abuse case this morning. Link to the article; http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2010/05/peta_releases_grisly_footage_t.php Anyone involved in the rescue efforts?

Anyone use an air filter to try and remove the dust from the air? Nearly choked myself out of my large office today when I gave 4 dust baths.

One of our chins our female mosaic has a small patch of missing fur around the size of a dime right below the back/bottom portion of her right ear. We noticed it about two weeks ago when we had a brief heat spike in the weather. So far it does not look like the patch has gotten worse or...

Just wanted to judge the potential interest of creating an informal chinchilla cooperative for the Western New York area. Basic idea is to establish a cooperative with membership (free). The cooperative would purchase chinchilla products in bulk and distribute them to members on a...

I'm curious if you are making chin accessories what size hole are you using for hidey houses? I picked up either a 4" or a 4.5" hole bit today while I was at the local big box. Hoping that should be good for them since I want to expand on my building options.

OK, so I've had a flying saucer in with our first rescue Cheecher's now for like 3 maybe 4 weeks now. I rarely see her actively using it like she used to use her craptastic plastic big box wheel. Her old wheel is long gone; however, I'm wondering if people have chins that never take to the...