Is chinchilla easy to raise? What kind of food do you usually eat?

Chinchillas are very similar in shape to rabbits and squirrels, small and fat, with a rabbit-like head and a squirrel-like tail. Now there are also some friends who keep it as pets, which looks cute. Now let's see if chinchillas are easy to raise. What kind of food do you usually eat?

First, is chinchilla good to raise?

Chinchillas are easier to raise for the following reasons:

1. Docile character: chinchilla is a very gentle animal, does not have any aggression, so chinchilla will not bite, encounter the enemy can only run away or pee on the enemy.

two。 Non-contagious: chinchilla has the thickest fur in the world, with 40-60 hairs in each pore, and parasites cannot survive on it.

3. Not easy to get sick: chinchilla is a plateau animal, chinchilla's hometown harsh natural environment makes it have tenacious resistance, so it is not easy to get sick at ordinary times.

4. Love cleanliness: chinchillas love cleanliness very much. They can bathe with bath sand and take a bath twice a week.

5. No smell: because chinchillas are vegetarian, their feces do not smell bad, and chinchillas go to the toilet on their own.

6. Vegetarian animals: wild chinchillas rely on bark, grass roots, cactus and other plants to survive, family feeding chinchillas only need staple food, forage grass.

7. Rule of life: chinchilla is a very regular animal. It can stay at home by itself during the day without being taken care of. At night, its owner can play with his master when he comes home.

8. Long lifespan: chinchillas have the longest lifespan of all rodents, with an average lifespan of 18-22 years, and can reach more than 20 years under scientific family feeding, so they can accompany you for a long time.

What kind of food does chinchilla usually eat?

1. Hay plant

Alfalfa is one of the most common staple foods of chinchillas. We usually buy dried alfalfa, because fresh alfalfa is not suitable for chinchillas to eat. It can only be said that a small amount of alfalfa is fed to adjust the taste! As for why it is shade-dried rather than sun-dried, this is so that the nutrients in alfalfa will not be destroyed and best preserved! Usually processed into cake-shaped and powdered feed, we can choose according to the needs!

Legume stems and leaves, when soybeans or wild peas are still tender, you can collect some of their stems and leaves. These stems and leaves are dried in the shade and fed with alfalfa.

Rhinoceros, this herb is similar to alfalfa, but a little shorter, chinchilla also likes to eat this kind of food, whether it is dry or fresh can be fed! But we are usually fed with other hay!

Timuxi grass, this grass is also one of the more common chinchilla food, nutrients are less than the above, but can be mixed with the above legume stems and leaves for feeding!

Other plants, in addition, there are dandelions, plantain seeds, bitter herbs and so on, these plants can be fed fresh, but it is best to feed them after drying in the shade.

two。 Concentrate feed

Generally speaking, our common concentrate fodder is made of cereal raw materials with high nutritional value, of course, there are some grass powder ingredients above, which belong to the mixed type, but the nutrition may be higher, rich in protein and energy!

3. Fine supplement feed

This kind of refined forage is specially designed for chinchilla consumption in a specific period, which contains a lot of nutrition, which can help such as postpartum chinchilla to quickly recover its physical strength, and can be used to replace other staple foods in the stage from mating to lactation.