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General Breeder Chat / Re: Identifying kits?

« on: June 25, 2010, 04:20:53 AM »

Thanks for the info guys. @chinclub - 500 chins wow...i would love to have that many chins but man what a load of work! can i ask...do you have that many because you breed for fur?

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General Breeder Chat / Re: Identifying kits?

« on: June 24, 2010, 08:41:07 AM »

Right..well I was planning on having 3 cages for the breeding pairs to live in all the time and 8 smaller cages..3 for the nursing mums and her babies until they are weaned then 5 left for the weaned kits so think that will work out ok.

Quick question..I see most of you in america have vast amounts of chins in your breeding program...the most I have seen in the UK is only about 15 pairs, what do you breed in? (ie a shed outside, or a room in your house) those of you who have hundreds of chins..is breeding your full time job? 

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General Breeder Chat / Re: Identifying kits?

« on: June 24, 2010, 06:16:51 AM »

Sorry guys should of made myself more clear...i'm soon going to be starting up a breeding unit..I plan to start out with only 3 breeding pairs, so I guess it's not exactly a "load" of kits, but say all three of them give birth around the same time...MAXIMUM that's 9 kits that will be put together when weaned, I will have two cages...one for the male kits and one for the female kits..so the cages will have kits from different litters...every breeder in the UK have a code assigned to each kit that's born..for example mine will be LC/10/F/01 (Breeder code/year/gender/kit number)  so how do I know which kit is which if they're all together and if they look the same.

Will the marker come off? Cause yes I plan to sell the kits..so don't want someone walking away with a chin with ink on it's ear.

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General Breeder Chat / Identifying kits?

« on: June 23, 2010, 12:37:39 PM »

Was just thinking..when I setup my breeding unit, and I have a load kits born, once they are weaned i'm going to seperate the male and female kits and put them into one cage per gender.  So I was wondering...how do I know which kit is which without having them tattooed? Of course there will be kits that I can identify right away with the distinct colour of markings etc..but like if I have a load of standards..how do I know?

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Health / Re: Eyesight?

« on: June 17, 2010, 05:17:14 AM »

Lol, yeah now you mention it, my two have ran into my leg/foot when I let them out for a play, silly chinnies 

Although, there was a guy who owned a chin called Tiki on YouTube and he posted that Tiki had passed away after running at full speed into his cage

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Health / Eyesight?

« on: June 16, 2010, 05:22:39 PM »

Just wondering, how good is a chinchillas eyesight? Cause i've noticed my two looking at something but it's like they have lazy eyes and they're not looking directly at something.

Any info?

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Guestbook / Hey all! Big hi from across the pond!

« on: June 16, 2010, 05:14:24 PM »

Hiya, i'm posting from Scotland. I'm a huge animal lover and currently have two pet chinchillas..i'm super saving up money just now so I can start up my own breeding business next year.  Can't wait been wanting to do this for ages.