Pookinaround
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Ok folkes can you please help me clarify something...I am still somewhat new but I was always under the general assumption that female chins end up having a heat cycle every 28 days.
I recently joined MCBA and yesterday I got a copy of the Mar/Apr Newsletter. In it there is an article by Debra Nickelson, DVM. In it she writes, "Female chinchillas have irregular heat cycles between June and November. They may come into heat every 36 to 130 days or not cycle at all. Between December and May chinchillas cycle every 30 to 50 days, average being 41 days."
I guess I am a little confused because I at least like to think that I have done a fair amount of reading up on chinchillas and like I said my initial impression was that the heat cycle is generally every 28 days. This was the first time I have come across something that says otherwise. By no means am I questioning a vet, but taking into consideration what she is saying if one of my girls seems slow to breed so to speak it would be perfectly normal. See if I expect a heat cycle to occur at 28 day intervals then I am going to obviously hope that pregnancy occurs probably sooner than it would actually technically realistically happen according to the article. Again this is my first year in the chin world and all so I haven't experienced it all first hand yet during different times of the year but seems like I could have easily been expecting kits sooner than what is normal because of the conflicting info.
Any thoughts..?
I recently joined MCBA and yesterday I got a copy of the Mar/Apr Newsletter. In it there is an article by Debra Nickelson, DVM. In it she writes, "Female chinchillas have irregular heat cycles between June and November. They may come into heat every 36 to 130 days or not cycle at all. Between December and May chinchillas cycle every 30 to 50 days, average being 41 days."
I guess I am a little confused because I at least like to think that I have done a fair amount of reading up on chinchillas and like I said my initial impression was that the heat cycle is generally every 28 days. This was the first time I have come across something that says otherwise. By no means am I questioning a vet, but taking into consideration what she is saying if one of my girls seems slow to breed so to speak it would be perfectly normal. See if I expect a heat cycle to occur at 28 day intervals then I am going to obviously hope that pregnancy occurs probably sooner than it would actually technically realistically happen according to the article. Again this is my first year in the chin world and all so I haven't experienced it all first hand yet during different times of the year but seems like I could have easily been expecting kits sooner than what is normal because of the conflicting info.
Any thoughts..?