Recent content by EricaWieser

If your local dollar store sold untreated grape and willow vines that were all natural with no pesticides, preservatives, or anything on them, would you give them to your chinchillas?

Because although the kits have stayed alive without their mom, they didn't gain as much weight as the kit I left with her. They are still under the 200 gram mark (7 week mark, too) so I prefer them to be with their mom. I am monitoring them and they are not fighting. They are all cuddling in...

Nutrition facts do matter. Ingredients do matter. Discounting a food solely because its distributor is Walmart and marketed towards rabbits while giving no other reason is illogical. You all continue to ignore my arguments and just state that I am wrong without explanation. Why is my feed a...

Update: I weighed them all again today. Since taking the two larger kits from her, the smallest kit has gone up to 153 grams and Daisy herself has gained 21 grams from feeding only one kit instead of three. The kits are now five weeks and four days old and are all above 150 grams. I returned...

AZChins and Cuddlebug, untreated grape vines, wicker, and willow sticks are good chew toys. I have never had any problems with the sticks from outside. The rawhide, yeah, I think I'm the only one who gives my chinchillas that, but I acknowledge it's a little weird and so far I haven't had any...

I am seriously in the market for a homo beige male. Not even kidding here; I have cash.

I feed my chinchillas Small World Rabbit Feed Complete Rabbit Pet Food, which is $8 for 25 pounds from Walmart. A lot of people recommend Mazuri chinchilla food but I prefer Small World for the following reasons: Mazuri and Small World Rabbit Feed have very similar ingredients. Here, here's a...

Daisy's weight today is 618 grams. This makes the updated plot: Feb 18th: 904 grams She gave birth on Feb 22nd Feb 24th: 760 grams Mar 10th: 735 grams Mar 21st: 680 grams Mar 24th: 650 grams Mar 27th: 618 grams Here is a picture...

I apologize. I confused the name of the city with the name of a different one I went to for a fish show. I'm in North Carolina and not very good with geography, my apologies. To all the haters: please be civil. I was asking for weaning advice, not your judgement on my breeding techniques...

"You are worried about her at 650 grams but her normal weight is 600? I never wrry until they pass their prebreeding weight." She dropped 30 grams in three days. Of course I was worried. "I have to say, I think you should have done a little more research into breeding before jumping in...

I spent several months before purchasing any chins trying to find homo-beige chinchillas for sale. No one had any available. Chinchillas.com, the local breeders, nobody had a homo-beige. I even went to the MCBA show in the neighboring state, trying to find someone who had homo-beige...

Please don't jump to conclusions and say mean things. I actually like the person who I bought this chinchilla from a lot. He inherited his herd from another person so it's not his fault there aren't records. The heat is also something that only happened during the first summer he had the...

Update: I spent the day hand feeding the babies and teaching them how to use the milk bottle on the side of the cage. The mom, Daisy, spent the day separate from the kits. After teaching them how to use the milk bottle and laying out dry powdered milk, I feel better about Daisy being in the...

Two things: I weighed Daisy again and in the three days since I last weighed her, she dropped to 650 grams. That's dangerously low and I really don't like it. She dropped thirty grams in three days. :( Also, I read the FAQ and learned about powdered milk as a possible food source for baby...

They don't chew it and they like running on it, so I'm not sure why that wouldn't be good?