Greenwood Chinchilla

We always have “rejects” as everyone always wants a baby as young as possible - but all chins in general with time and patience bond and make friends, nothing more rewarding than turning a skittish scared chin into a loving pet.
Also consider a fur chewer - its sometimes a bit tatty to look at but they are healthy in all other ways 🙂 some breeders snap their necks, but we gather as many up as we can before that happens even though they are slowest to Rehome - they can have normal long healthy lives even if they do occasionally stress chew or overgroom 🙂.

Not the best pics but a great litter born today - from chakra my royal blue Male to Marion my own bred standard sapphire cArrier. Demonstrating the 4 versions of kits you can get from such a pairing - royal blue female, sapphire Male, black velvet sapphire cArrier Male and Standard sapphire cArrier female (who is only 21g so hope she makes it)

One of our latest babies born 🙂 pink white (possibly brown white cross) - dad is Tata the own bred multi ribbon winning 1200g brown velvet and mum Sallie the German show champ white 🙂 hoping big things for him and his standard brother 🙂

Some of our youngsters currently for sale.
Males and females in standard grey, beige and sapphire
We also have - not shown here:... Adult males: grey, beige, sapphire, blue diamond Adult females: grey, sapphire, pastel (very rare)
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Stock up on chinny treats from the only chinchilla specific store we recommend

Just realised in a few days time (15th) it will have been 15 years since I had my first sapphire kit born here!

But late updating from the national chinchilla show yesterday - took along 10 animals at last minute (as usual for me!) with very little prep and picked up 7 awards which was very good going for such a show 😉 my three standstds got nothing but that was to be expected as they were all recessive carriers up against every breeders best pure bred standards
Three young sapphires got Highley commended (2 are for sale) Brown velvet got a 3rd Adult brown white Cross got a 3rd (now g...one into breeding) Adult charcoal female got highley commended but has started to oxidise so had gone past her best showing times (previous 1st and 2 x 3rds)
And my older homo beige got another 1st 😉 and is now in with the charcoal 😉
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Two week old blue diamond brothers 🙂 coming along nicely 🙂 one will be sold so long as they make it to 12 weeks as have three now of this pairing

Just found a huge beige girl born but stone cold in cage and unmoving - got her going again with hot water, chest compressions and banana swings to clear the lungs and then a low heat hair dryer to keep her warm whilst mum was busy with labour of 2nd kit but remains to be seen if will make it 😕 always have to try though but it’s always 50/50 after reviving

New split cage from thickets house

This is who we recommend for toys and treats for your furry friends 🙂

Amazing day at the chin show - last min decision as usual to go and no prep done due to mum being in hospital - but took 12 animals and got 12 awards!
Best of all got overall exhibitors award, 1st mutation breeders award and 3rd standard breeders award (all 4 standards I showed were black pearl or sapphire cArriers).
Top individual animals awards were reserve best young mutation and reserve best adult mutation 🙂
... Both charcoals band sapphire got awards - which for difficult recessives is always great to show I’ve got them going the right way
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Chin show tomorrow

Some of the animals currently for sale:
Young males: Grey Beige ... Sapphire
Young females: Grey Sapphire (ready soon)
Adult males: Standard grey Beige Sapphire
Adult females: Standard grey Beige
Black pearl cArriers Male and females (females only for sale with a male as pairs)
Sapphire carrying males and females
Blue diamond carrying males and females (females only for sale with a male in pairs)
Charcoal carrying males and females
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Anyone needing a pet courier for chinchillas this is who we recommend :)

Mega baby boom the last 3 days after a period with no babies - never had so many in so short a space of time its made for my highest number of kits by this time of year in 22 years of breeding! thankfully not many left pregnant now! a Quins, a quads, 2 lots of triplets and 2 twins! Sadly some from the bigger litters were born dead - but most are active and healthy and doing well! Just typical all the wrong time of year for being a good age for showing next season!

Been a sad week for me this week - dusty one of my oldest charcoals and one of my soppiest chinchillas died at just under 14 years old. For the last 6 years she’d been coming to chinchilla promotional fairs and shows and been a hit with everyone. She’s the founding matriarch to many of my ribbon winning charcoal lines - so still lives on in them (Shesgreat great grandmother to the female char I got a 3rd with last week)

Another shockingly successful day at the chin show today considering I went literally last minute and hasn’t prepped or groomed - took 13 animals and got 10 awards - top being res best adult mutation. And also got 3rd mutation breeders award - not bad going considering I took mostly odd colours or chins out of multioccupancy cages 😉