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How big are the largest chins on record? What are the weights of some of your largest?Pics would be appreciated too :)
 
This interested me too, so I tried google searching and found nothing. :(

The only record breaking thing I could find was age. There was a chinchilla that lived to be 28 years and 94 days old.
 
I've had one's in the 1200g range...I KNOW that's not the largest anyone's had on here though. I don't have pictures of her anymore, but you wouldn't have known from pictures that she was that large. She looked more like an 800-900g animal.
 
The oldest I am aware of is a 30 year old in Houston, TX.

The largest I've seen was over 1300g. No pictures.

Here is the most morbidly obese one I've ever owned; http://chins-n-hedgies.com/forums/showpost.php?p=321160&postcount=74

The heaviest I've owned was ~1200. You will find the extra large girls are usually 5+ years old. They tend to gain density and size as they age. Starting at about 3 years I have to be really diligent about checking collars because their neck gets wider. Not fattier, just bigger.

I will have to look for pictures.
 
This is Hester, one of my largest chins. Don't know her weight off hand but she's big. She's a year old standard/vc.
 

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