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We have come full circle in our housing of the chinchillas. In our first two years we had a small herd in our home. With the birth of our son we were forced to move them to their own building. He had respiratory problems and the added chin dust was not good for him. Over the last 7 years we have been working to come up with the best design for housing our chinchilla herd. This past year my husband created our best building yet:
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It was truly the best chinchilla building, however, my kids are now getting active in after school activities and weekend plans and it was getting harder and harder for me to find evening time outside with the chinchillas. Even with spending all of my mornings out there I still missed them and felt I wasn't getting enough one on one attention with everyone.
So, after much thought I decided to downsize my herd and move them back into the house. Even with the chinchilla building of my dreams I couldn't replace the love of checking up on the pregnant Mom's by just walking down the hall, or cuddling a baby while I watched my favorite TV show, or sitting on the couch reading a book and hearing the sounds of chinchillas playing in the next room.
We have now moved them into their new room in the house. We made a few modifications like covering the floor and the back walls with vinyl and plastic for easy cleaning. We have an exhaust fan that runs 24 hours a day and they have their own a/c unit as well. We also closed off all of the central air conditioning vents that went to that room. This is because 60 + chinchilla bodies along with all the lights needing to brighten the cages will heat that small room fast so they need more air conditioning and much less heat than the rest of our house.
These pictures look dark because I was having to stand out in the hallway to try to get a picture of as much of the room as possible.
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We do get a lot of questions as to why we use smaller cages than we recommend for pet chinchillas. These are breeding cages that 95% of all chinchilla breeders use. They are the safest size for pregnant moms and new babies. Larger cages would allow a mother to run from her babies if she didn't want to feed them. Taller cages would allow new babies to fall and get hurt.
Our chinchillas do get toys like the one you see hanging in the picture below. We don't feed our breeding girls many raisins or other treats, however, we do give them a supplement which they think is a treat. They line up and start rattling their cages when they see me coming with the container!!
Another special perk to the breeding cages is that when one of my girls delivers her baby(s) we can close the hole you see in the back of her cage. This will allow her to not get pregnant again while she is nursing. Because the male can still walk through that tunnel behind her cage they don't miss each other and Dad gets to visit with the babies through the cage bars. Its not uncommon to see the baby and Dad rubbing noses or chatting to each other through those bars. Family life is still happy and Mom gets a nice long rest until I feel she is ready to breed again.
~Don't feel bad for Dad. He has three wives so he isn't lonely when one of his girls is closed off for mother duties. ;)
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