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Hello and welcome to the forum. You're chins are beautiful. I don't have advice but I hope everything goes well with the delivery. You sound like a loving chin parent. Oh, and that pic of "evil" Jozy was perfect!
 
Have you thought of doing a cage within a cage? I know that separating the two and then putting her cage in his seems like it defeats the purpose, but perhaps she will be calmer since she can sit next to him. And because you've got a double-wired cage (you said you wrapped the original cage in mesh), it will probably be harder for him to breed her from outside of her cage, if at all. If that works you could move the cage JUST outside of his after a day or two, so that they're still next to each other, and then slowly move them farther apart so that there's no chance of his penis reaching her.
I know that with larger animals neutering can change their personality, but I don't think that is an issue with smaller animals. I would keep asking around, but I can imagine that you would be able to neuter Jozy and his personality will be the same.
 
I changed strategies a bit. Their regular cage is an enormous 3 level cage. I wrapped mesh around the top level and closed off the trapdoor down to the 2nd level so that she's on the top level and he has the 2 lower ones but they're still in the same cage.
 
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