How to Take Care of Chinchilla Babies

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Decide if you will need a new cage. You want to make sure all of one's pet chinchillas have enough space to romp and play. If you feel a few new editions to your chinchilla family may not fit comfortably within the size cage that you currently own, it may be time for an upgrade.

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Remove any added adult females from the cage. Unlike many pet rodents, the father chinchilla is no threat to the babies. Other females, however, may be aggressive towards the new editionsHow to Take Care of Chinchilla Babies. It may be best to put the non-mother adult female in her own cage until the babies are a few weeks old.

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Allow the mother chinchilla to feed her personal babies for the initial handful of weeks. The babies do not need any dry food yet; the mother's milk will be plenty to preserve them healthy.

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Avoid contact with all the babies for the initial week. Although chinchilla kits are cute and it can be tempting to pick them up, it can be important for them to bond with their mother during this time.

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Start introducing dry food around week three. You can wet the babies' food a little bit to make the introduction easierHow to Take Care of Chinchilla Babies. During this time it is OK for the babies to consume a combination of dry food baby bedding sets and the mother chinchilla's milk.

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Keep the babies warm. Some tiny chinchillas have trouble maintaining their physique temperature during their first few weeks of life. Preserve the cage out of drafty areas. Also, you can warm up a tiny bit of bedding so that the young can nuzzle in it like their own version Pink and Brown Baby Bedding of a heated blanket. A handful of seconds inside the microwave should be enough to heat the bedding. Avoid overheating; you should be aiming for warm bedding, not hot bedding.

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