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    Chinchilla... Self mutilation?

    For a while now we have been dealing with fur biting with one of our chinchillas. He would bite out parts of his fur, and he just looked patchy. We didn't figure much of it, because when we adopted them we got him, and his mom, and she has that kind of habit too, not as extreme, but she has like...
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    Kit and Mom fighting?

    Okay, so we took mom to the vet, she has medication, she hates taking it, but we're trying our best.. WE have been rotating the babies in and out. The vet gave me a recipe for formula, I made some of it last night, and babies will not take it, I try to burrito wrap them and put a tiny bit on...
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    Kit and Mom fighting?

    Well it takes like 24 ******* hours for my messages to go through, but there is a huge bald spot, and scabs all over the bald spot. I have no idea what to do.
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    Kit and Mom fighting?

    I absolutely cannot pickup the mother, with or without force, with or without blanket, now it appear our grey one is picking on our white one, we weighed them 3 days ago, and they were both very close in size, both around 50 grams, yesterday we weighed and the grey one is at 61, and the white...
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    Kit and Mom fighting?

    How do I go about checking the females nipples and how to check if she has milk, it's been 3 days, and there wasn't a problem until last night, the kits are a little over 72 hours old, the male was removed ASAP, within 30 minutes of me realizing she was giving birth, and I noticed quickly.
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    Kit and Mom fighting?

    So two days ago we had 2 surprise kits, because when we bought two males, we apparently got a male and a female.. And because they were from a pet store we haven't been able to hold them long enough to gender our two, we didn't know. Now one of our kits it seemingly fighting with the mother...
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    Is it okay to change types of shavings?

    Me and my girlfriend just bought two chinchillas a couple days ago. We were just wondering if it's okay to change what we are using for shavings on the bottom of their cage. Right now we are using some sort of recycled newspaper shaving stuff, we don't much care for it, basically what I'm asking...
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