In cultivation of chinchillas, as well as in any other business, there are various nuances which need to be known to achieve any result. Actually, any person can be engaged in cultivation of these animals. At an initial stage the cultivation of chinchillas can bring quite good additional income, and subsequently, it can become also your main earnings.
Instruction
1. It is possible to grow up chinchillas by various methods: a pair way (at it keeping only of one male and one female is possible) and a polygamous way (versions of the contents of a male and from two to four females are in that case admissible). At cultivation of chinchillas the polygamous way is most favorable. Small animals can be grown up also in house conditions.
2. At pair cultivation of chinchillas you need a spacious cage with special regiments, a lodge for cubs and also for the female, and a bathing bath with sand. In addition you need to get one more small cage where it will be necessary to otsazhivat kids, is more senior than three months.
3. After five – seven days after the second genus of a female, male it will be necessary to transplant from her. It is connected with the fact that after bringing of posterity the female needs to have a rest and restore forces. If to allow the bigger number of childbirth in a row, then the birth of premature or impractical posterity because of exhaustion and fatigue of a female is probable. Through five – seven days after the okot, it is possible to place a male to a female again.
4. The female needs to be acquainted with a male at the age of five months. It is recommended to choose a male on two – three months are more senior than a samochka. Usually small animals have breeding cards where there is information on parents and primogenitors of chinchillas, as from mother, and the party of the father. These cards are necessary to exclude such phenomenon as inbreeding, that is related incest. If it occurs, then not to receive healthy posterity any more.