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Q & A / Re: Newborn Chinchilla, mom died last night
« on: July 10, 2013, 06:23:18 AM »
Babies can slip out of an opening that is 1 inch square. You will need a cage wire that is 1/2 x 1 inch to be baby safe. You also need to go ahead and mark your calendar 111 days. She is probably pregnant again if she was in a cage with a male when she delivered.
The secret to telling the gender of a baby is to take the part that looks like a penis and try to lift it as it you are pointing at the chin's belly. If it will lift and you can see a space of skin between that and the anus you have a male. If its just a bump that wont lift and it is almost touching the anus it is a girl.
Here are pictures http://www.lowcountrychinchillas.com/sexing.shtml
I check the day I find the babies and then I check again right before I list them for sale at about 5 weeks. I have been at this for over 15 years and still sometimes the little guys seem to change sex on me. I learned the hard way (I also sold a wrong gender once) to check and recheck. I now even check n front of the buyer and so them as well. It is an honest mistake.
The secret to telling the gender of a baby is to take the part that looks like a penis and try to lift it as it you are pointing at the chin's belly. If it will lift and you can see a space of skin between that and the anus you have a male. If its just a bump that wont lift and it is almost touching the anus it is a girl.
Here are pictures http://www.lowcountrychinchillas.com/sexing.shtml
I check the day I find the babies and then I check again right before I list them for sale at about 5 weeks. I have been at this for over 15 years and still sometimes the little guys seem to change sex on me. I learned the hard way (I also sold a wrong gender once) to check and recheck. I now even check n front of the buyer and so them as well. It is an honest mistake.