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Chinchillas => General Chat => Topic started by: Jasonred79 on September 28, 2015, 10:07:11 AM
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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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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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Is it battery operated? My scale gives word numbers right before the battery dies
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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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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!
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https://flic.kr/p/yjvLvz
Hmm... A bit roundish in shape. Especially his bum.
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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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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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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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... 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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Yeah I thought so. That would be exceeding the limits of chinchilla physiology.