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I've got a female normal winter white who's been with me for a year. Her name's Hay Hay as when we first got her, she was really munching down on a lot of hay. I mostly just observe the things she does in the cage as we made her a pretty big cage so there's a lot of things for her to do when...

I have faced similar problems with my hamster food but never my chin food. Are you using an air tight container? I place mine in a normal container (not air tight) and put a packet of silica gel in the container together with my food to keep the air inside dry. I also avoid putting my food...

You could choose from various beddings for the bottom of you cage. The popular choices are kiln pine pellet or fleece bedding. As for the cage itself, have you removed the ramps and change the plastic ledges to a chin-safe material?

Thanks for the recommendation! I've been taking courses in coursera too, it's a really good place to gain new knowledge :)

Just wondering, how many of you guys have hamsters as pets too? And if you have hamsters, what are the colours of your hamsters?

I currently have a 4 month old chin as well and he's in a two level cage. As he doesn't seem very confident about jumping yet, I didn't upgrade him to my existing 4 level cage. I think you would just have to observe your chin and see if he/she is jumping around comfortably both up and down...

She probably just wants to play for an even longer time!

Are toilet paper rolls okay? I've heard that as it's treated paper we shouldn't be using it for chins? (I'm using toilet paper rolls for my hamster though.)

I make a noise that associates with anything that I don't want my chin to be doing. So my chin will know that whenever he hears that noise he knows he shouldn't be doing whatever he's doing. After awhile, he just doesn't do it anymore.

If the cage is big enough, a chin doesn't really need play time outside of the cage. But if the cage is pretty small, I think some play time would be good :)

It's humid here in Singapore so I try and sand bath my chin on a daily basis at a fixed timing of around 7-8pm. Sometimes he would immediately start bathing himself but after that for the next couple of days, he would just enter the bathing container and stone there. Could this be that he...

You could try the oxbow natural science vitamins. I feed that to my chins. They've a variety so you can choose whichever you think your chin needs. I'm alternating between multi-vitamin and digestive support right now.

Awesome. May I know if it is easier to bond same sex chinchillas compared to opposite sexes?

Hey, if that's the case, does your chin have problems holding on to food and what not?

I tried introducing a dog to my chin but it didn't work out at all. My chin kept on bouncing off the walls of the cage and dog kept barking at my chin. So for introduction between a dog and a chin, I think it really depends on both animals and it will be a case by case basis. Nothing is...

Everything is healed. How can a chin lose its toe during the birthing process?

Just FYI, my other chin had hands that were like this. This photo was taken when she was about almost a year old.

Gary was born on the 23 Feb of this year. I just got him from a local pet store one week ago and it's only until I brought him home that I realised his hands seem to have some defect compared to my previous chin. Is this a defect or are his hands still growing? If it is a defect, what could have...

Antibiotics can lower a chinchilla's appetite. Whatever the case, providing water would be the most important.

Is there any chance of a head trauma?