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    How do I bond with my Chinchilla!?!

    Chins tend to take steps backward as they get comfortable in a new place and are no longer frozen by stress or fear. Katsu sits in the closet and barks sometimes. I'm not sure what's going through his head. He's not stressed and he can come back out. It happens more when aika is in the...
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    Treat suggestions?

    As an after thought have you tried some in cage enrichment. New ledges of different types, hammocks, plastic free bird toys, if you get one of those supposed veggie feeding hanging metal bars with the screw on bell you can buy drilled coins of various wood and blocks to put on it, I also put...
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    Treat suggestions?

    Fresher twigs with bark on are sometimes liked by chins that show no interest in pet store items. Their favorite part is stripping the bark off of wood. The heart wood and processed wood is often ignored except when there is nothing else to chew on. You can buy a small amount of a different...
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    Chinchillas & Cage Mates

    My singles don't want more attention than my pairs. My friendliest 2 are together breeding right now and they both shove their noses thru the bars and hang out the door. They have little battles over who gets to pull the new twig in to which opening of the house. Occasionally they whack each...
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    In a corner and AC questions

    A window or portable ac unit would probably be enough. We've used one just to cool the bedroom when our ac went out and the door is often open. Whether it would save you enough to buy and run one all the time instead of the house ac is another question. The portable ac unit we borrowed was...
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    Chinchillas & Cage Mates

    Some who are used to a cagemate can become less active and outgoing for awhile after losing the other chin but most seem to do fine on their own and some are quite against sharing. I have a few singles. Mainly from separating breeding pairs before kits arrive. I have 2 lone pregnant females...
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    retiring Cinni

    18 month old cinnamon sow. Has produced great babies and is not easily stressed but not well handled. Looking for a retirement home or lighter breeding program. She has contributed enough to our breeding group and it's time to further the quality of our hedgehogs by breeding her daughter...
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    Breeding Cages?

    Critter nations have small enough bar spacing. That's what we are using now but the new version of them has questionable quality. Easily broken bars and some just don't go together without a bunch of filing and smashing with a mallet. I asked a little while back for alternatives and got...
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    Will someone please look at this x ray?

    Can't help with any possible health problems since that's the first xray of a chin I've seen. I might possibly see some gas but that's based on guinea pig xrays. It's rather interesting to see a chin. I thought they'd look a little more streamlined through the belly and shorter in the neck...
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    Is this safe?

    They don't last long enough to be worth buying for most of ours. Even the baby, Keck, can eat through the entire roof and split the tunnel in 2 within 2-3 days. We gave her one as a temp house because they were out of wood houses the correct size but it was thoroughly destroyed far too quickly...
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    What mutation is my chinchilla?

    Looks like a light ebony to me. The terms hetero and **** ebony are not accurate. Ebony is an accumulative gene so there isn't a simple 1 gene(hetero) or 2 genes(****) combo. I was told hetero and **** ebony should only be used for beige and ebony combined mutations. Ears don't grow new...
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    cage buy?

    0. The suggested minimum is 24x24x36" for 1-2. All the shelves and ramps would need replaced with solid wood or covered in fleece as well.
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    I lost one of my boys today

    The pellet does need changed. Some use rabbit pellets from the feed store or other plain pellets and some order oxbow or mazuri chin pellets online. The hay should be fine as long as it's harvested and stored well (no rain, minimal light, etc...) and is less than 1 year old. Less than 6months...
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    Female with random urination

    The breeding cage was probably so small and possibly with a wire floor that she just went wherever. I've seen it in dogs who were kept penned up their whole lives and you'll see it in rabbits who have never set foot on a solid bottom cage where they might step in their own mess. The dogs can...
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    2nd or 3rd Cut?

    Doesn't really matter but 2nd cut is generally preferred for a good mix of leafy and stemmy and often sells out the fastest with the guinea pig and rabbit crowd. However I've found chins don't have the same likes as most small herbivores so they may enjoy 3rd cut better. Either one is a good...
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    Oat Hay?

    We don't have droughts. We have floods. Iowa is always wet and sometimes too wet. Occasionally really too wet such as you can't cross the state or get to the other side of town because the highways have become rivers.
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    Oat Hay?

    Oat and other grain hays vary a lot by when they are harvested. If it's harvested before the grain heads form it is equivalent to grass hays like timothy and should be fine in unlimited amounts. If the grain heads have started to form it may be too much fat and carbs and should be used more as...
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    Something wrong or just getting old?

    There are a few antibiotics they can give a long lasting shot for instead. I'm not sure what would be safe for chins but that's usually what they do when we have problems with a rabbit or especially a bird. Resistant bacteria happen when you use an antibiotic that is not fully effective...
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    salt and pepper hoglets

    And they are both claimed already. I didn't breed enough hedgies for this month. I've gotten 20 messages off hoobly in the past 2 weeks. With cinni's small litter I only have 6 hedgehogs to sell and someone is taking 2 this weekend. I really need to get usda licensed so I can keep more sows...
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    plywood as a "wall" in a room?

    Plywood is questionable to chew. Maybe there's some type of baby/dog gate that would work. None of the spaces I need to block off are higher than 10" so I use a cheap hamster pen.
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