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What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« on: May 23, 2012, 08:10:47 AM »

I have been feeding my chin healthy select. It claims it is so great for them but I am not so sure. It has a lot of junk in it and I was watching my chin eat last night and all he does is pick out the junk. I don't even know if he is eating any pellets. I was doing a goggle search on the best foods and there were 3 top names and  there were good and bad things said :-\ :-\ about all. Now I am even more confused on what to do. Also I am afraid that if I do switch to an all pellet food he won't eat at all. Please help.. :-\ :-\
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2012, 08:18:26 AM »

I used to feed that. It's not as healthy as it seems; one of the ingredients in a form of sugar. Try feeding carefresh, the food in the green bag. My chin loves it.
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2012, 09:09:15 AM »

Some of the best diets out there are mazuri, tradition, APD or oxbow.  I personally use Alderpark, but it is only available in Canada.

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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2012, 02:33:41 PM »

some otherrs are manna pro, mann sho, nutrina naturewise... but all rabbit foods are not good.. the ones listed here are safe ones alot of peole also use.
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2012, 06:11:03 PM »

Mazuri is good, also cheap. I can get 20lb bags at my local feed store for 15. makes it about 17 with tax. \

and it is one of the best foods out there to
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #5 on: May 23, 2012, 10:09:37 PM »

Mazuri and Oxbow can be purchased in Petsmart, Tradition and Nuetrina rabbit online, those are the feeds I would stick to.
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #6 on: May 25, 2012, 08:25:02 PM »

Mazuri and Oxbow can be purchased in Petsmart, Tradition and Nuetrina rabbit online, those are the feeds I would stick to.

Actually we stopped carrying Mazuri at petsmart. but we still carry Oxbow, and I would check your local feed store for Mazuri, I live in the middle of no where and they carry 20lb bags of the stuff.... for 16 bucks in the middle of nowhere....
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Re: What is the best food to feed your chinchilla?
« Reply #7 on: May 25, 2012, 09:35:06 PM »

ya i hear alot of petsmarts stopped carrying the mazuri.. what a shame, they sell more garbage food than quality food.
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