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Health / Overweight chinny
« on: March 19, 2019, 07:08:51 AM »
We have 2 female chinnies.
We feed them good quality pellets and hay.
One of the chinnies got unexplained gut stasis last year, it was quite scary and we were lucky to catch it early but thankfully she's made a full recovery. She is still a little underweight compared to how she used to be, but every month she's putting on a little more weight so we aren't too concerned. Other than that shes very healthy and well. The other chinny has ballooned in weight - possibly because her sister was too unwell to compete with food?
Because they share a cage and we still want the other chinny to gain weight we can't really restrict the foods.
We're going to try and give her more exercise - but other than that is there anything else we can do to to help her lose weight?
We feed them good quality pellets and hay.
One of the chinnies got unexplained gut stasis last year, it was quite scary and we were lucky to catch it early but thankfully she's made a full recovery. She is still a little underweight compared to how she used to be, but every month she's putting on a little more weight so we aren't too concerned. Other than that shes very healthy and well. The other chinny has ballooned in weight - possibly because her sister was too unwell to compete with food?
Because they share a cage and we still want the other chinny to gain weight we can't really restrict the foods.
We're going to try and give her more exercise - but other than that is there anything else we can do to to help her lose weight?