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Q & A / Re: Injured Chinchilla

« on: September 22, 2013, 03:42:06 PM »

We haven't tried touching her front feet but she can move them. It looks like the issue is at the back of her. We can touch her back feet and she doesn't care at all.

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Q & A / Re: Injured Chinchilla

« on: September 22, 2013, 03:17:35 PM »

She flips on her side because she cant really walk. Right now she will sometimes walk to the other side of the cage, which isn't too far. We only gave her a little water and that didn't hurt her. This started before we gave her some water. There isn't a way to ingest a large quantity of anything from the bars. she has been in the new cage for a little over 2 hours and there hasnt been any fecal output. She did just scratch her face with her back foot.

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Q & A / Re: Injured Chinchilla

« on: September 22, 2013, 03:08:08 PM »

sorry I forgot to answer stuff. We gave her some water through a syringe but we haven't really seen her eat, but she ate a banana chip but not her food. It is only 67 in our house so she isnt overheating. I'm not sure about her fecal output right now.

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Q & A / Re: Injured Chinchilla

« on: September 22, 2013, 03:05:32 PM »

If its her back we think its from her flipping on the shelf. She likes to flip on her back to chew on the bars of the cage. Shes been doing that for about a month and nothing has happened. We can't seem to get her to stop doing it. We noticed this morning that she couldn't really walk, falling on her side when she tries and that something is wrong with her. She was in a cage with another chinchilla. We put Neeka (The hurt chinchilla) in a separate cage when we noticed something was wrong. I dont know if the other chinchilla did something to Neeka or not.

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Q & A / Injured Chinchilla

« on: September 22, 2013, 02:30:37 PM »

We have a 9 month old chinchilla that is acting really weird. She can't seem to stand very long and when that happens she falls on her side. She has tried to pull herself through the shavings while on her side. She acts normal at times but she is usually a hyper chinchilla and she isn't really doing anything. She acts like there might be something wrong with her back. She hasn't made any noises like shes in pain. We can still pet her on her back and on her back feet.

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Q & A / Pairing Chinchillas

« on: April 16, 2013, 10:33:26 PM »

I did a post earlier today but I decided that I want more than one person answering this.

Question 1: I have a female chinchilla that is 6 years old. I want to get a friend for her but the one I found doesn't like her at all. They just attack each other. Is it possible to get a baby female chinchilla and put it with m 6 year old chinchilla?

Question 2: I have a female chinchilla that is 3 years old and was separated from her mate she had for 2 years the day of me getting her. I would like to have someone in the cage with her. Would it be possible to put a baby male chinchilla in with her?

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Q & A / Chinchilla Breeder help

« on: April 16, 2013, 06:51:59 PM »

Can a chinchilla breeder please message me. I have some questions about pairing chinchillas.

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Q & A / Re: Introducing 2 female chinchillas

« on: March 07, 2013, 01:14:11 AM »

I do have them in separate cages, I forgot to put that. I have been moving them closer but when I get to the same point every time Qara (The one that is being mean) tries to get her nose through to get to Harmaa (The one that isn't eating). Qara tryings to get her teeth as close as she can. If she can't do it she starts yanking on the cage bars using her full body to try to get through them to get to Harmaa. After 2 weeks of getting Qara I let her and Harmaa run around because they looked like they were getting a long. They were lying as close as possible between the bars and they were being really nice. When I let them out Qara just kept peeing and it ended up in a peeing war between them. I've never introduced 2 females before, is it different than introducing 2 males or a male and a female?

Harmaa goes off and on eating. It seems like she goes in and out of depression. We took her mate away in August because he wouldn't stop attacking her. She started to always stare at the wall. When we got Qara, Harmaa stopped staring at the wall. When Qara starts being mean all Harmaa does is stare at the wall and stops eating. I measure out her food and she had the same amount for 2 days because she didn't eat it. The 3rd day it was finally gone and she gets 2 tablespoons a day. She doesn't have any other symptoms so I haven't taken her to the vet.

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Q & A / Introducing 2 female chinchillas

« on: March 06, 2013, 08:55:27 PM »

I got a second female chinchilla about a month ago. The person I got her from didn't know anything about chinchillas and pulled her from her mate the day we bought her. She has a baby which we separated because she was pulling the baby's fur out because she was so forceful on nursing. Will these issues make it harder to get my 2 females in the same cage?
One of the females who I have had for almost 3 years is eating a lot less than she was. Shes really depressed and I know that getting her in a cage with another chinchilla will help with that.

If you know anything that can help or advice on how to introduce 2 females please message me.