'Light' chinchilla diet

Re: 'Light' chinchilla diet

Eira Davies — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:58:43 GMT

Too much alfalfa is actually really bad for chinchillas :-/ Cant go wrong wih good old stalky timothy hay :) Thats what all mine get with a weekly treat of charlie chinchilla with alfalfa, they love it! xx

Re: 'Light' chinchilla diet

Sal the 1st — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:38:29 GMT

which diet are you using now?

I used to use the oxbow pellets - for chunky chins I used to cut back on the alfalfa which quite a few of them were on because owners said they preferred it and get them back onto Timothy or other good hay which has fewer calories and limit the number of treats in a week . Hope that might be of some use

Re: 'Light' chinchilla diet

Eira Davies — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:33:02 GMT

Try charnwoods :) they have pellets for the 'breeding and active chinchillas', but also for the more 'mature' chinchillas.

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