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Post by billyalex on Nov 18, 2012 19:02:24 GMT
Hi all,
I have just bought home two beautiful chin boys and I have two bags of the food that they were being feed on at the pet shop.... The Charlie chinchilla food.... But I am now reading that really, they would be better on pellets.... So what would you recommend? what chin pellets would be better for my boys?
Thanks xxx
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Post by davx on Dec 10, 2012 0:03:21 GMT
I recommend a similar diet as for degus: herbs, flowers, bird seeds, shrub leaves, branches and twigs.
This type of diet is well proved in Germany and Switzerland... we introduced it more than 5 years ago, when chinchilla owners were tired of problems with pellets and diet related diseases (allergies, dental diseases and so on) and it works well.
However pellets are still wide spread diet because of a long dominance over several decades of commercial chinchilla fur breeding where price of food played a crucial role.
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Post by kdogbella23 on Sept 21, 2018 22:27:58 GMT
Oxbow essentials have the needed nutrients for chins. Since they live in a cold desert 90% of their food is dried so 70% of their diet should be fresh timothy hay. Chinchillas on thid diet often live to early 20s. Dried herbs can be a safe treat but not main diet.
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Post by ntg on Sept 21, 2018 23:52:12 GMT
Please note dates when you respond to threads, this one in particular is from 2012.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 22:02:59 GMT
Oxbow essentials have the needed nutrients for chins. Since they live in a cold desert 90% of their food is dried so 70% of their diet should be fresh timothy hay. Chinchillas on thid diet often live to early 20s. Dried herbs can be a safe treat but not main diet. Sources for this please? |
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