omg stop posting pics of those dwarfs, I have uncontrollable giggles and really want one I think when I see their tiny makeup and little hands hehe. They just look roly poly ;p
Iayla, I am sorry for forgetting to post the type of parents and what the kits were, stupid of me- The mother is a standard, from very reputable lines and breeder, and the father is a homo beige from the same breeder, but of course they are unrelated, I was given pedigree and also breeder told me who I can trust. The father, had a pink white dad and a homo beige mom, the reason I say he is homo beige only is because he isnt white.. he is exactly how you see homo beiges, only maybe a tad lighter.. in some areas he ISwhite but most just like a homo beige, eyes are glowing pink.
of course they had hetero beige twins.. the reason I am saying they shared a placenta is that they were both from the same horn when they came out and only one placenta came out, I witnessed the birth from the first kak of on coming contractions to the end. I was worried when the placenta did not come out fter the girl, who was first, and then about ten minutes later, here is the boy, and ten minutes after that there is the placenta, which was pretty big.
I was worried about her. I did take her to the vet. ( If anyone has read my posts, please dont think I am a vet fanatic, but when I am worried, they go to the vet... the only times I take them is usually during things I cannot figure out myself, and this issue I needed assistance on). They had taught me how to check before, and I could feel nothing the second day after the kits were out, not lumps, or even a tiny thing except for internal fecal matter that was inthe intestings, but the vet also determined for me that there was no placenta as far as she could tell. She also.
Now mom is pregnant again, and the placentas have been able to be felt, there are two, one in each horn right now, I am assuming, if they go ok, there will be at least a kit in each horn, this time not twins sharing a placenta.. does this help? Let me know if I missed anything.
Those dwarfs are sooo cute.. I wonder if they have health problems though.. I did read of course all replys made in this thread, but you would think they might have problems..
As for the boy, Lucky, who is in my album too ( they all are inclding the rest of my chins, me and my dog and cat hehe) I named him Lucky because when he was born, they had a custom made house my husband made out of kiln dried untreated pine, he is good at making things, but I was the stupid one, and didnt make him drill or nail it to the back of the cage, and on his first morning, Lucky was behind the house, and it happened while we were getting ready to take my husband to work.. wel first thing I do after waking up uis go see new babies how they are doing etc, well I only see one. This is a extremely secure chin maternity cage, and I am thinking wtf, heart is racing. THEN, I see two little feet pinned between the back of the house and the cage wall. At some point, maybe he was back there, mom freaked out couldnt find him, or whatever, and she moved the cage and crushed him accidently. I took cage out and he flopped into my hand. I thought he was dead... I brought him into the kitchen and he was like a ragdoll. I felt for broken anything.. nothing seemed broken. He opened his eyes a little, and I held him close, and noticed he was gasping for air. I was a wreck, crying, etc, I put him on the table, and he layed there, and then he started to trey to walk but couldnt lift his head . I thought maybe his neck was crushed. I blew with a coffee stirrer stick into his mouth a bit, but he seemd like he was on his way out. I had to bring husband to work, and I was torn between bringing him and letting him lay beside mom for his death, because I was sure he was on his way out.
I layed him under mom, who knew something happened. She was making these very weird noises, I never have heard since. Maybe a chinchilla mom crying? I am not sure.
So I drive him to work, race home, could have got a huge speeding ticket, and go to the cage. I looked, and here is one chinchilla, racing around the cage, looking at me as if to say hi. I thought ok this is the girl. Then I look in the house, and see one under mom, but tail is curled in nursin position. Nope, the one racing around, was the boy who I was sure was dead. It was as if nothing had happened, and girl was just nursing along. I named him Lucky.
I have a friend who is a single mom, and she has a son of a few years old, older than his two's though, he is allergic to pets, so is she but not the chins and when they came to see my "zoo" they wanted one of the little babies when they were ready. I knew they were going to be small. Both of their birth weights were in the 30's, the boy was31, girl was 33. Through theirnursing, altough milk didnt come for three days, I think mom was a little nerous for her first litter at two of em, they both gained exactly the same amount, and stay exactly within 2 grams of each other, until the end, when Lucky, the boy, got a little bigger. I was worried about them being small, but I had her take the bigger one, and they love him. She told me explicitly she wanted a smaller one anyways. So they are happy, and they buy their tradition and oxbow from me every month so I see him, he is the same as Lily, small, never grows much, but is addicted to his wheel they got from the net, eats like nomal, acts normal, just smaller,. Same as lily. I think there is nothing wrong just they are smaller. Despite all this, at 6 months she is going to the vet, and so is Lucky. We are splitting the bill, and just making sure they are ok.