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Something is wrong...
« on: September 28, 2015, 10:07:11 AM »
uh oh. There are 2 possibilities:

1) My electronic weighing scale is broken. Or at least, inaccurate.

2) Popsicle is now a fatty chinchilla, and weights 2230g. ... For reference, he was only like 800 a few months back.
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #1 on: September 28, 2015, 08:19:11 PM »
Option 3: The laws of physics changed since the last time you used it. You'll have to re-calibrate your chinchilla.
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2015, 06:25:12 AM »
Is it battery operated? My scale gives word numbers right before the battery dies
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2015, 08:57:48 AM »
Quote from: BLS Chins on September 29, 2015, 06:25:12 AM
Is it battery operated?

Pellet and hay powered.

... ok, admittedly, also daily treats. Which are now OUT of the equation.

over 2kg is obese for a chinchilla right? So, should I also start reducing his daily pellet ration?
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2015, 05:15:15 PM »
If he really is 2kg and his normal weight is 800g you definately have a problem and a dangerous one at that. I'd like to see a photo of that!
« Last Edit: September 29, 2015, 05:19:01 PM by GrayRodent »
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #5 on: September 30, 2015, 04:28:23 AM »
https://flic.kr/p/yjvLvz

Hmm... A bit roundish in shape. Especially his bum.
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2015, 03:00:31 PM »
He doesn't look obese to me. If he was three times his normal weight it would be quite obvious. Perhaps you should get a second opinion... from a different scale.
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #7 on: September 30, 2015, 09:21:58 PM »
I think he wasn't fully grown when I last weighed him. In that picture, his wheel looks really too small for him. I should really have measured his body length as he was growing up...
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2015, 07:28:55 AM »
I'm a little skeptical of your measurements. That is a very unusually large mass for a male chinchilla. Where was he bred?
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #9 on: October 02, 2015, 04:08:24 AM »
... broken weighing scale.

He's 637g. Come to think of it, I think 800 was a wrong weighing too. what an anticlimax.
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Re: Something is wrong...
« Reply #10 on: October 02, 2015, 05:59:51 AM »
Yeah I thought so. That would be exceeding the limits of chinchilla physiology.
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