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Breeding |
L. C.Visit 1 Lady asks me how to sex chins, her friend had bought what she believed to be sisters but they had produced two kits. She wanted them, but how did she sex them to be sure she didn't end up with the same problems. To sex chins check out Huggable Pets - sexing your chin Visit 2 They were male/female but she decided to have them anyway, [quote] they probably won't breed, being brother and sister [unquote] Visit 3 Two kits both boys, all kept in the same cage. The response to my warning that the boys would fight 'they don't fight, they get on so well, they are lovely together' Common sense dictates that several males and females in one cage is going to result in fighting, that is the natural way of things! However there are always exceptions. Visit 4 She now has 7 chins 5 boys and 2 girls (still all in one cage) the original female having died! Did I know who would want them? She didn't want anything for the chins, just for the cage. One year on I just hope that my visitor and the '16 chins' owner are one and the same person the timing fits!. All we know is the owner started with two chins 5 years before, and ended with 16 chins (15 sharing one cage ) arriving at a local shelter one day. Lets us make some below average assumptions, one litter a year per female, one male one female kit each litter. By year 5 even on a very low birth rate we might have expected 32 chins in that cage! Whilst one female had been separated and was presumed aggressive none of the chins bore scars to suggest there was any large scale fighting! 8 males were removed from the cage, unfortunately one young male was missed and he was then attacked by the females! I adopted two of these chins plus a week old kit (L.C., Minnie & Gnasher). Minnie (the Minx) died suddenly two weeks later (heart?) Gnasher died from pneumonia at four weeks of age. L.C. is fine and a real sweetie. I don't know the fate of the other re homed chins. In-breeding like this can only result in unhealthy chins, thankfully the shelter has a policy that no re-homed pets may be bred from! |
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