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Chinchillas => Q & A => Topic started by: sarahrose080 on December 05, 2016, 05:03:02 PM
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I have a friend who helped manage a hemp grow op. in Oregon this year. He made some hemp bedding for small animals and wants to give me some to try out with my chinchilla. It's completely natural and no chemicals were added, but is it safe for a chinchilla to use hemp bedding?
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I'm skeptical. I recommend using kiln dried white pine or aspen chips exclusively for chinchilla bedding. Not cedar chips and not paper bedding. The reason is the form and texture of it. If it can absorb moisture and swell, or form an indigestible mass (bezoar) it can impact a bowel and it's over for your pet. Chinchillas are known for eating things that other rodents to not and often to their detriment. Wood shavings are among things known safe.
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I personally would not use it since im not familiar with it. If you have a wire bottom cage and the chin can not reach the bedding then it would be worth a try. I use pine or aspen wood shavings