i have two standard grade ones.. and yes i have gotten a better cage since then. im not trying to breed them but im not trying to stop them.if they have babys i know some great homes for them. and my female was a great mother n there was no complications in the birthing process
If you put a male and female together you are a breeder because that's what any animal with genitalia will do, so your answer is rather immature and thoughtless IMO.
A better cage or a baby safe one? Those are not necessarily the same thing. Is your wire spacing 1/2" x 1/2" or 1" x 1/2"? Is there a wheel in your cage? Do you have secondary cages for your male kits to wean at the appropriate age? Do you know you need yet another cage to separate your male from female to prevent breed back?
And if you had done "plenty of research" you would have known that cats and chinchillas should not mix EVER much less with babies in the picture, you would have known chicken wire was insufficient to keep them in the cage, and that same sex pairs or even single chinchillas can live happy lives without needing to breed or becoming "depressed" which is actually not definitively proven to exist in animals. What you are seeing is a male who wants to breed trying to get at a female that you've interpreted as a human emotion/condition. So why come with an attitude calling others with decades of experience "ignorant" when you are presenting yourself as a typical back yard breeder uncaring about the quality or health of the animals you produce?
Where did you get these chins? If your answer is not a reputable breeder who knows the background of their chins/has pedigrees for their chins, you need to
stop and separate them immediately because basically what you are doing is the equivalent of breeding two shelter dogs/cats. Would you do that? I don't know I guess some people would...
And yes, you were lucky in that your female had no complications. From experience, I can tell you I've seen disfigured dead kits born, parts of dead kits born, seen tiny kits born that don't live for more than 2 days, and I have had an emergency spay from a female who had half a dozen litters and was a good mother cost me $500 (and that's on the cheap side) and she still died after successfully pulling petrified kits out of her and round the clock care for 8 days.
Unless you are invested in this as a serious breeder you need to reconsider how you are housing your animals because you are, in fact, in control of that and could prevent more kits but you choose not to.
If you have legitimate questions about how to get started as a breeder the right way, we'll listen to them and answer all day long, but that doesn't sound like your intention from your posts...
