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Health / Female chin with "lump"- pregnant

« on: August 26, 2007, 11:37:21 AM »

Ok I have a beige female who is 3 years old. We were almost positive that she was pregnant and due at anytime. When I noticed a small amount of blood in her regular cage, I moved her to a baby cage (I didnt pick her up, I let her walk into the other cage by attaching the doors together) Anyway after a day or 2, No kits but now she has a "lump" in her vagina opening. What is this? Miscarriage?? "she had a small spot of blood with her last birth"

I recently moved to the DFW area so I am unaware of any vets who ACTUALLY know what they are doing with chins.. Can someone recommend a vet to me AND tell me what this actually is?  This is her second litter.. First litter she had 2 live kits and 1 that died within 10 mins of being born.. Could this be a miscarriage of some type?  Is there anything we can do for her before we are able to get her to a vet (Its Sunday)?

Any help would be appreciated..

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Breeding 101 / NEED HELP PLEASE- Mom with infected nipples- 1 baby wont eat-losing weight

« on: October 08, 2006, 06:57:56 PM »

Help me please. I have a tan female that gave birth on Tuesday. She has 3 kits (2 females, 1 male) The first 2 days the mom refused to feed the violet female and the male was fighting with mom and the other 2 kits. After 2 days, the mother finally began feeding the violet female. Well now I have a problem with the male. For the last 2 days, mom refuses to feed him although she will let him sleep under her ? Got me confused.

Well the problem I have here is, mom got out when I was messing with the male. When I picked up mom, I felt "scabs" on her. When I turned her over to inspect, I found that all but 1 nipple has a scab growing over the nipples. I have NEVER had or heard of this problem.. What do I do to make mom better? How do I get her to feed the male again and what is best treatment I need to do from here???

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Breeding 101 / Re: Death during labor?? Possible ??

« on: June 19, 2006, 04:19:19 PM »

I have all of my chins on Mazuri and they get 1 or 2 raisins a day plus Hay. I do not give them any other treats since this is what they are used to and they enjoy it a great deal.  All of  my other chins are healthy, happy and active. (I have 5 plus the ladies 4)

The lady who owned the 4 males and the dead female gave them stuff (cr@p excuse my language) like Pizza crest, breads, cookies or whatever. I'm honestly surprised that they have lived this long after eating like that with her. The actually non people food that she gave them was guinea pig food from walmart with the mixture of bananas or something. You know the cheap stuff, not just pellets. Since they have been with me, I was mixing my mazuri with very little of her stuff and then totally switched to mazuri once they were eating it. I did this to avoid problems with their digestive systems.  They now get Mazuri, hay and 1 raisin each. Thats it.  The longer they are in my household, the more active they have become which is a good sign but I also know it will take awhile before they are truly healthy providing her "care" did not do to much damage.

On a much happier note. My standard grey had 1 kit this morning. Both seem happy and the kit is very active already. This is my standards 3rd litter which she keeps having while I am sleeping. haha

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Breeding 101 / Re: Death during labor?? Possible ??

« on: June 18, 2006, 01:33:51 PM »

Oh. As far as blood, I never saw any and only saw a very small wet area.

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Breeding 101 / Re: Death during labor?? Possible ??

« on: June 18, 2006, 01:27:58 PM »

Thanks SO VERY much for giving me the answers I was searching for. It is such a sad experience that I hope to never go through again and hope that noone ever  has  to experience.  I plan to bury her in my backyard this evening so that she will never be forgotten.
As far as her being to small, that wasn't the case. The entire herd that I got from this lady are all over feed with junk food and are very large! She gave them so much junk food that they just do not want or like to eat pellets. One is so large it takes BOTH hands to pick him up! I know that this is way to large for a chin and have limited his number of treats so that he is forced to eat his pellets. I really want to get the remaining 4 healthy so if anyone has other suggestions, pls let me know. 
 

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Breeding 101 / Death during labor?? Possible ??

« on: June 18, 2006, 09:49:50 AM »

Can someone please tell me what went wrong here. I think my beige female went into labor (nipples present and heavy breathing)  sometime yesterday afternoon (found her on her side around 4pm) .  I carefully moved her from the cage she was in with 4 males to a cage that I could watch downstairs where I was. After moving her, she spent about 2 hours  moving from one spot in the cage to another trying to get comfortable. After several hours she finally just found a spot and stayed there (on her side) I could see that her stomach was contracting but after a couple of hours they pretty much stopped. Within mins of it stopping, she was dead.  I searched online for all information about labor to see if I needed to do anything for her (while she was alive. I never thought she was going to die). But I couldnt find anything that would alarm me that what she was doing was wrong.
This chin originally belonged to a lady within the city I live in and I have had her and the other 4 for less than 1 month. This lady was given 3 chins from her friend and at some point, Those chins had babies and she kept them ALL together(a total of 6 now)in one cage. She told me that she woke up one morning and found one of the 6 dead in the cage and assumed it was the mother. She insisted that the remaining 5 were all males, I kept telling her that 1 was a female who I suspected was pregnant (the one that died last night on me) and she insisted otherwise (someone who has no knowledge of chins apparently) My thoughts here is that this female mated with either a brother or her father causing problems. Could this be the case? If not, Pls tell me why she died and what I could have done or did wrong.  I have a standard grey that has has 2 litters (while I was asleep) and is still alive and healthy.  I have had the standard chins for several years and know alot about chins with the exemption  of the labor and death part. Did my moving her cause a problem? Should I have tried to remove the 4 males instead? PLEASE HELP ME! I am very sad by her death and want to know what to do in the event this happens to me again.  Thanks