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Post by phe on Oct 26, 2008 14:05:12 GMT
hello! my friend has just got her 2 new chinchillas beau and muffin, theyv got a great cage and a brilliant owner ;D BUT she hasnt got the internet so im gonna ask a couple of her qus that i couldnt answer firstly shes wondering how much food to give them or rather if they stash it away as she put loads of food in the bowl and it was gone by this afternoon, now my old chin cecil never hid his food but thats cos he was lazy so do chins stash food? also do chins suffer with bumble foot, shes wondering weather to cover the wire with tiles? lots of love phe xxxxx
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Post by kimberley on Oct 26, 2008 17:34:33 GMT
Hey phe!! My chin doesnt stash food either ! - maybe they dont trust that she'll feed them everyday yet!! hehe. I normally give Mowgli a 1 and a half handfuls of his pellets a day plus the odd treat on top of that. (mind u i have got pretty small hands hehe!) Yea i have heard they can suffer from bumble foot but mesh cages are recommended for them so that the poo n pee can go through the bars to the tray beneath. I dont think chins r as prone to bumble foot as degus tho. I think the general consensus is the bottom of their cage should be mesh but they should have wooden shelves to give their feet a rest.Hope this helps. Theres a few good chins around - check out chinwags, chins unlimited and chinsrus. Kim x x
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Post by phe on Oct 30, 2008 21:36:20 GMT
thanks kimberley it turned out that they had either dug in their bowl or tried to have a dust bath in it ;D so the food had gone all down the back of the cage lol! it took her hours to figure out where all the food had gone, she thought she had really greedy chins :s yea shes getting some shelves for it and some apple branches so thats all good ther so cute she got them of a breeder but one of them got some of its tail chewed of by the mother bless her xxx xxx xx
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Post by jackdaniels on Nov 1, 2008 21:57:17 GMT
Hope everything is now all sorted. Not sure how many grams I give the Chins/Goos 2 handfuls aday and normally only left with dust. A 5kg bag lasts me six weeks so its about 60g twice a day for 2 chinchillas/4degus. + also give them a bit of herb special and ... .
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Post by phe on Nov 4, 2008 13:33:13 GMT
cool cool thanks jack i shall pass the info on think thats bout how much they get anyway lookin at the size of their bowl! made me laugh she let them out in the bathroom went to answer the door and came back to find one missing....i kno chins can hide in very good places n told her some of cecils old ones like down the back of the sink and on top of the wardrobe , anyway after an hour of dismantling the flat she really starts to panick cos she was so sure that ther werent any hiding places in the bathroom and finally looks behind the sink prperly n ther he was squeezed up inside the ceramic bit that hides the pipes n emas sitting ther goin o that bit of the sink i didnt realise it was hollow alls well that ends well! xxx xxx
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