I. How to raise chinchillas
Raising young Chinchillas:
1. Chinchillas in their childhood (before 8 months of age) should mainly feed on staple food, alfalfa and grass, and alfalfa as the staple food for young chinchillas. Young chinchillas can Get adequate nutrition in the alfalfa feed, and feed them timothy grass two days a week to reduce the gastrointestinal burden of chinchillas.
3. In the childhood of chinchillas, the owner should pay attention to preparing enough food for them, and feed them according to the way of eating less and more meals. In order to meet the nutritional needs of young chinchillas while preventing them from eating too much and causing obesity.
Feeding adult chinchillas:
1. For adult chinchillas, they should be mainly fed with staple food and grass, and stop feeding alfalfa.
2. In addition to providing staple food for adult chinchillas, you can properly feed chinchillas some special snacks for them. The way of making chinchilla snacks is very simple. It is recommended that pet owners make their own chinchilla snacks to ensure that the snacks they feed are fresh. That is, take a small amount of fresh apples, carrots, sand fruits or red fruits and feed them to chinchillas after peeling and dicing, and feeding them 1~2 every other day.
3. Under normal circumstances, adult chinchillas need to take in 20~40ml of water every day, and they need to ensure that the water they drink is clean, for example, they can be provided with boiled water or purified water, and must not be allowed to drink. They drink cold or unclean water.
2. Precautions for raising chinchillas
1. chinchillas It is not suitable to eat fresh vegetables and fruits with too much water, otherwise it is easy to cause chinchilla diarrhea, for example, you can choose apples to feed them.
2. Chinchillas can’t eat peanuts and soybeans, because peanuts contain more oil, and soybeans will swell greatly after entering the abdomen of chinchillas to absorb water, and it is easy to cause intestinal obstruction and diseases after eating. die.
3. The residual feed and hay after chinchillas eat should be firmly discarded, because chinchillas have a certain ability to distinguish food, and the residual food is usually considered to be unnutritious or unpalatable. It is good, and if the residual feed is not cleaned up in time and deteriorates, unfortunately it is eaten by chinchillas, which will cause serious consequences.
4. Alfalfa grass is rich in nutrients, and chinchillas like to eat it, but the owner should pay attention to controlling the amount of alfalfa grass that Haji feeds to chinchillas, so as to avoid feeding them too much. They get fat. Alfalfa grass can be the staple food of young chinchillas, but for adult chinchillas, it is recommended to feed them twice a week. The growth rate of chinchillas in adulthood slows down and the nutrients needed are reduced, so they can be mainly used exclusively for them. The main food or grass for feeding.
5. To keep chinchillas, breeders should pay attention to placing the cages in a cool and ventilated environment, but be careful not to place them in the air vents to prevent chinchillas from being blown by the wind and cause cold.
6. In hot summer, when the weather is sultry, breeders should pay attention to adopting cooling measures for chinchillas to prevent chinchillas from heat stroke.
The above are some of the precautions for raising chinchillas that we have summarized, hoping to help breeders to better raise chinchillas and let chinchillas grow healthily
