Personal Education Poll - owner type vs chin age

[Riven]

Just a little poll for my personal education.

What type of owner are you, and what is your oldest chin.

The chin must have lived with you, or in similar conditions the majority of it's life.

EX. a retired ranch chin that is 14, that has been a pet for 2 years would not qualify. A chin that has always been a pet, non-breeder would qualify as a pet owner category, even if you hadn't always owned it. If you are a hobby breeder and have a chin you haven't always owned, but it was owned by another hobby breeder for the most of it's live, it qualifies.

NOTE: There is a breeder and Hobby breeder option. I put Hobby breeder referring to someone who has maybe around 25 or so breeders, runs a little smaller operation, and maybe you feel more like a pet owner than a "large breeder", etc. Feel free to decide which option you feel you fit in.

Thanks for your participation! :thumbsup:

 

[Lynn & The Chins]

That's quite a jump from 2 years to 6 years.

Since I have had Mr. Whiskers almost 5 years, I went ahead and chose "Pet owner, 6 years", as you know that I believe that I am in for the long haul!!! I hope that won't mess up your poll. :kiss:

 

[eroomlorac]

I am a pet owner only and I have 4 chins. Two are around 2.5 years old two are a little over 3 years old.

 

[Riven]

No problem Lynn. Well, I was having a hard time deciding where to split them so I didn't have a ton of possible choices!

 

[Megan]

Don't know where you want to put me, or the chin.

Jasper was purchased July 29th, 2001 at 8 weeks old. So that puts him roughly 8 years old. He has been here his entire life, I average roughly 70ish animals and use a breeding set up HOWEVER he is, and has been his entire life in a pet cage.

Other then that, I have various chins who have been here years in a breeding set up, that came from ranchers(I use the same set up) and are a bit older then him..but they haven't been here their entire lives.

 

[equus_peduus]

It would seem that your poll will be strongly biased towards relatively younger animals - for example, my oldest chin is about 5 or 6, and I've had him most of his life... and he was my first chin. So I haven't had an opportunity to grow any chins older than that. There are also a lot of relatively-new-to-chinchllas members on this forum, and I expect most people get their chins while still fairly young. If you're trying to figure out how old chins can get in different settings, then it would seem that mostly you're not going to get that information.

 

[Claire D]

Polls are notoriously tricky to do with all the possible options so I recognise this is not an easy poll to create.

I am in a dilemma here too - I am a hobby breeder who (like many, I suspect) also has pet chins and rescues.
Some of my rescues come from pure pet backgrounds and have hit 19+ (that I know their ages), some of my pets have hit 13, and my breeding chins are much younger ATM. I have had retired breeding chins (females mainly) over 10 years old too.

I put in a pet owner with a chin 15 for the purposes of the poll - hope that is ok Nicole?

 

[Mt. Zion Chins]

I am a hobby breeder and my oldest is 16 years old (my first litter) - Probably should say 15 + years

 

[Stackie]

It would seem that your poll will be strongly biased towards relatively younger animals - for example, my oldest chin is about 5 or 6, and I've had him most of his life... and he was my first chin. So I haven't had an opportunity to grow any chins older than that. There are also a lot of relatively-new-to-chinchllas members on this forum, and I expect most people get their chins while still fairly young. If you're trying to figure out how old chins can get in different settings, then it would seem that mostly you're not going to get that information.

I agree...many people are not long time pet owners here, most are fairly new and have gotten their first within the past 5 years or so. I've had chins 4 years, my oldest is 4. Haven't had the chance to see one get old, because I haven't had chins that long.

On the other hand, there are several people on here who have been breeding for years, and HAVE had the chance to see chins grow old.

 

[warmice]

I'm a pet owner.

My oldest chinchilla is 3 years old this year! =)

Hope the information will help ya out!