Chinchillas are the amusing small animals having cheerful nature and very pretty appearance. Thanks to these qualities they became one of the most popular pets. Chinchillas are animals collective therefore it is better to get couple of rodents at once. Depending on your purposes, it is necessary to choose a heterosexual or same-sex couple, and for this purpose – to be able to define a sex at chinchillas.
Instruction
1. If you choose to yourself the pet from several small animals who are in one cage, pay attention that samochka of chinchillas are larger than males and behave more actively. However when choosing a rodent in pet-shop do not forget to specify age of puppies at the seller, in a cage there can be chinchillas of a different dung. Let you the fact that chinchillas girls try to stick to males does not confuse – for these rodents it is normal behavior.
2. Accurately take small animals and turn them a stomach up. At chinchillas external sexual characters are expressed not obviously however if you after all saw the allocated testicles, then before you obviously a male. The most reliable difference of females from males at chinchillas is a distance between an anal and urethral opening. At males it can reach two-three millimeters, and at females of chinchillas the distance between an urethra and an anus is almost imperceptible.
3. It is easy to distinguish a male from a female during hunting. The girl becomes more active, refuses food, scatters a forage. Her genitals turn pink, there is well noticeable a vagina, from it white and transparent liquid is emitted. At this time the male begins to look after a female, publishing at the same time amusing snorting. Certainly, courting happens only on reaching puberty which chinchillas reach at the age of seven months.