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My plan was just to get some CNs when we had money. As my husband files down, bangs with a mallet, and curses the new double cn I'm thinking he won't be happy to put 4 more of those together...... All the other cages I know of have 1" bar spacing. Is there any certain brand or location to get...

I'm using my cn for mothers and babies so I don't have on hand knowledge. I would think though that our silver surfer is light enough not to break bars if it would hang properly. If you have a saucer already you can put a chunk of board under it so it doesn't bend down on the bars when chins jump.

If you can set the cages side by side or put one in a fairly large carrier or small cage and put that inside a bigger cage with the other one for awhile it will give you a better idea how they'll interact and let them get used to each other. That's not really an option for us so we've just been...

There is only one breed of chinchilla. You are asking about color and there is no pic.

Another cause which one of ours does occasionally is to get pee on their back. She uses her wheel to do it. Pee and then run and it splatters across her. She had spiky clumpy fur for a few weeks irregardless of dust baths. She no longer has a wheel until we can get her a flying saucer. A...

It's quite likely a female having those problems will one day just fail to pass the offspring and die. Surgery to remove the offspring is risky and you can't keep doing it every litter. Once that happens they are out of breeding anyway. Even if you were willing to do that one time catching an...

They probably do it as a fiber source. Lots of people who feed carnivorous animals raw diets like to leave the fur or feathers on because they help move other stuff through the digestive tract. Barbering by herd animals or feather plucking by birds can be a sign of a diet too low in protein or...

If you are buying wood online see if you can find a fresh local source or someone who just scrubs and bakes the wood a little instead of heavy processing like boiling or long baking times. It can make a huge difference in whether they want to chew on the wood or not. Katsu goes nuts for fresh...

We have nicknamed her Keck because that's all she's been doing the past week. Keck, keck, keck, squeak. We've been scolded so many times. She also kecked at a pillow today because it fell over when she landed on it after seeing if she could out jump the wall. Although she doesn't keck or...

We had a similar experience with a petco guinea pig. Couldn't resist the cute little black and white male even though I don't normally buy from those places. He acted off, took him to petco, saw their vet, sent him back, his breathing went downhill and instead of taking him to our exotics vet...

There's a good breeder in ankeny. We just got a little ebony white from her and spent an hour talking and seeing all her chins. There are often rescues listed from chicago. If you want to wait 6 more weeks we'll have ebonies available. Hopefully a father and son pair. We are in North Liberty.

They sound like normal chins. None of mine like being picked up. Some just tolerate it better than others. They never want caught to go back in their cage and often have to be followed around a bit until they corner themselves and can be easily caught. We use small areas with no furniture to...

A sweet little ebony white. She fell asleep in my husbands hands while we spent about an hour talking with her breeder. I hope to pair her with a dark ebony. We had to swing by the petstore and get a temp cage because our new double cn hasn't arrived yet. She's very vocal. Her little kecks...

I had a pair of degus and they both tried to get in the wheel at once. One ended up getting whacked by the turning wheel and bled everywhere. Splattered the inside of their glass tank, rubbed it on objects, streaked their wood house... It was a mess. He was perfectly fine an hour later and...

Ours all eat cardboard. We thought it would be fine to leave the empty toilet paper tubes we were saving for the hedgehogs in the bathroom when the chinchillas were running around and they ate half of 2 and 1/4th of another. Now we have to throw those in the hedgehog room before releasing...

It's good you can take off in the middle of the night and drive so far. I can't and I don't have to justify it to you. I am putting in reasonable effort to find a vet given difficult circumstances and bad timing. Do hedgehogs bleed while in heat? I shall go ask google.

Can't do anything about it. This is the middle of nowhere surrounded by farm fields right before a major holiday in the midst of several severe ice and snow storms. There are small vet clinics scattered about who mostly see livestock, cats, and dogs with the odd rabbit or guinea pig with no...

I did this with a litter of rabbits whose mother died giving birth right before we left to see my dad's side of the family 2 states south of here. I put them in a backpack with all their nest material and hauled them wherever I went. I used one of those powder gatorade mix containers to hold...

Luckily our petstores don't sell chins but everything else I've bought excluding the family owned, all local bred stock, has died. Gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, fish... The only thing I buy from petco and petsmart these days is carefresh.

We had great dwarf hamsters as teenagers. 1 was psycho and attacked everything but once she was removed the rest were friendly. Ended up being a male and 3 females so babies galore. The originals were standard colored but they had blue/opal and tan offspring. They would climb the bars and...