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General Chat / Re: My Chins

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:10:30 AM »

Yeah Pittsburg..................go Steelers!!!!!!!!! I catch alot of flack for that around here since i am dead in the middle of Eagles country!!!! Anyway, both of my chins are standards and i really dont have much info on them, wish i did, in fact i am in the process of finding out more about their breeding. Thanks for the ideas guys, keepem comin!!!

Ah, another pittsburgher. Where in Pittsburgh are you, I'm in Penn Hills.

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General Chat / Re: what animals get along with chins?

« on: July 03, 2006, 09:02:42 AM »

Well, definitly not the fish.

I wouldn't put any of them together though. The birds claws or bite could easly injure a chins eyes, and the chin could take off a birds foot with one bite.

I have heard of rabbits and chins getting along, but rabbits are bigger and can kick very hard which could cause serious injury. If you've ever seen chins fight, they are very fast and can inflict serious bites in a split second. I just wouldn't risk it.

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Chit Chat / Re: Catering to your chins.

« on: July 03, 2006, 07:51:27 AM »

I just built two new cages the other week, because one of my pregnant females started taking it out on AK for making her that way. I had a cage I could put him in, but AK is my boy so I just had to build him a big cage like he's used too.

Now when I say that their cages are big, I'm talking that I build them in sections and have to put them together in the chin room because they're too big to fit through the door. The smallest one I 've built is 10 sq feet and the biggest is 20 sq feet.

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Health / Re: I got a few questions.

« on: June 20, 2006, 01:06:54 PM »

Dry them out first, make sure there isn't any sap coming out of them.

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Health / Re: I got a few questions.

« on: June 20, 2006, 12:15:35 PM »

Unless the fuzz is coming off really easily it shouldn't cause hair rings. Pecan wood is safe for them to chew.

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General Chat / Re: Bath Time!

« on: June 20, 2006, 10:20:57 AM »

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Q & A / Re: peeing in the food dish

« on: June 20, 2006, 09:56:01 AM »

All of my bowls are on the floor and I rarely have a problem with them getting peed in. The differance may be that my cages are all flat bottom so they can pee directly into the litter. You might want to get a pan that you can fill with wood chips that they can pee into, sort of like a litter box.

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New Births / Re: Kira had her first baby yesterday.

« on: June 20, 2006, 09:50:52 AM »

Well, the male turned out to be a female, it's so hard to tell when they're first born. She's already a little hell raiser, wont stall still for a second. All of my other kits would hide under my hands when I took them out. This one has to climb all over everything.

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Health / Re: It's like he's marathon training or something.....

« on: June 20, 2006, 09:46:29 AM »

I don't want him to get fat, I just want to make sure that his diet is giving him everything he needs for muscle growth. Typically people that are more active need more protein and more carbs. I doubt the food I'm giving him now was designed for a chin that was trying to become Mr. Universe.

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Health / It's like he's marathon training or something.....

« on: June 20, 2006, 09:05:25 AM »

I've got this one male chin named Shotput that's been kind of worrying me over the last few months. He's a year old and weighs about 570 grams. His brother from the same litter is about 100 grams heavier. I say I'm kind of worried because while he's rather boney he runs on his wheel constantly. I hear him in it litterally all night long. He'll run for about thirty seconds to a minute, stop stand up, rock back in his flying saucer and start running again. I wouldn't be surprised at all if he ran 30 miles a night. I changed his food about two months ago since the Mazuri didn't seem to be appealing to him. I've got him on Show Hutch Deluxe show rabbit food now and since he went from 430 grams to 470, but he hasn't been gaining since then.

I'm kind of worried that because he's so much more athletic than other chins that his feed isn't giving the optimal nutrition he needs. I'm wondering if there's a supliment that I could get for him that's similar to a body builders diet, something high in complex carbohydrates and protien. Could I also give him glucosimine or MSM for joint health?

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General Chat / Re: New chin owner

« on: June 16, 2006, 12:37:53 PM »

If anything they should smell like their dust bath, but I have heard that they can pick up odors from their surroundings. I recently saw that one person said their chin smelled like steak three days after they had steak for dinner.

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New Births / Re: Kira had her first baby yesterday.

« on: June 15, 2006, 09:57:31 AM »

I've been calling him white tip, I sure hope he stays that color. He's probably going to get lighter though.

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North East USA / Two 3 month old males available now

« on: June 15, 2006, 08:01:21 AM »

I've got two males ready to go now.

One is dark ebony and the other is light/medium tan.

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New Births / Re: Kira had her first baby yesterday.

« on: June 15, 2006, 07:58:37 AM »

OK, here he is at six days old.

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Q & A / Re: Shedding

« on: June 14, 2006, 02:57:31 PM »

Chins will prime about every three months. You won't even notice it on a lot of chins but some you'll start to see tufts of fur start to come out. You can get the excess fur off of them with a lint roller.