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Post by keninphilly on Mar 16, 2008 15:07:34 GMT -5
I agree, it is just plain gross!
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Post by figlet on Mar 16, 2008 17:31:01 GMT -5
It really doesn't phase me... I don't see animals as people and I can't exactly see it as incest. Not in the nasty way anyway. I'm fully aware that animals screw their family members all the time in the wild! lol. It's weird... Yeah.. But I am not repulsed or anything.
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Post by dawn on Mar 16, 2008 17:34:15 GMT -5
Just as gross and Rocco and my shoe that is moist after!
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Post by jaq on Mar 17, 2008 12:38:11 GMT -5
Hahah, ewwwww, that's nasty Dawn!
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Post by dawn on Mar 17, 2008 12:45:03 GMT -5
That is my Rocco!
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Post by starr on Mar 17, 2008 13:47:58 GMT -5
Yuck! Well, at least you'll give this girl and guy a better home! Poor things.
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Post by keninphilly on Mar 17, 2008 19:14:07 GMT -5
Just as gross and Rocco and my shoe that is moist after! Time to start locking the shoes up!! |
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Post by jaq on Mar 17, 2008 20:31:24 GMT -5
Though, I must admit Dawn, it gives a whole new meaning to someone having a shoe fetish!  |
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Post by carolanne on Mar 17, 2008 20:48:28 GMT -5
Pip loves my shoes and my slippers and my socks and my hand and forearm. |
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Post by jaq on Mar 17, 2008 22:15:37 GMT -5
Heheh, yummo?
Yin & Yang are now separated. Yang now has his huge bachelor pad while Yin shall remain in her Homey-Hagen for quarantine before intros start with her and the girls.
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Post by mistywaterwoman on Mar 17, 2008 23:57:25 GMT -5
We need pictures, Quinn!! How did the shelf making go? No problems?  |
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Post by jaq on Mar 18, 2008 0:23:30 GMT -5
Shelf making was...Interesting. Tools were broken, and a friend from the mom's group has a husband who is a tool-fanatic and jumps at any chance to prove his spending habits at Home Depot/Home Hardware are worth the investment. So now he's boasting that he's helped a pair of rescued chinchillas. Hubby and I had a bit of a rough time, but he finished them up and we got them in! Nearly broke a few bars trying though.  The house will be in within a day or two (he'll get Chinta and Tink's old one, since it's kind of small for just the two girls and with the hope that Yin will be moving in post quarantine, they're getting a bigger house built over the next day or two). Hammock, tube and maybe a cube will go in later tonight/this morning. Will be my first attempt at a tube, cross fingers for me! ;D |
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Post by tarheelgal28 on Mar 21, 2008 16:25:36 GMT -5
Actually don't mean to be gross but alot of breeders inbreed if there are certain qualities they like so that they keep those same qualities its not really called inbreeding though from what I understand. You just have to watch out because if they have bad ones it magnifies them. At any rate if you don't want babies I wouldn't chance it and split them alot are just slow breeders doesn't mean they won't.
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Post by tinam on Mar 21, 2008 16:45:04 GMT -5
Actually don't mean to be gross but alot of breeders inbreed if there are certain qualities they like so that they keep those same qualities its not really called inbreeding though from what I understand. You just have to watch out because if they have bad ones it magnifies them. At any rate if you don't want babies I wouldn't chance it and split them alot are just slow breeders doesn't mean they won't. I don't know anything about breeding and have never done it. But the websites I was reading up on all said that you should never inbreed a chinchilla. I'm curious if there is a different philosphy among breeders as you say a lot of breeders do it. Are there two different schools of thought in the chin world? |
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Post by mistywaterwoman on Mar 21, 2008 16:50:40 GMT -5
I've heard of large scale breeders using "line breeding" which is generational like she mentioned, Tina, but even then most people frown on it. True inbreeding, like father to daughter, only weakens the genetics.  |
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Post by dawn on Mar 21, 2008 18:34:41 GMT -5
Gino's award winning rancher line-breeds, I heard it from his own mouth that he breeds brothers and sisters, mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, as long as it was the trait he wanted that would produce a GSC. He is a pelter so it makes no difference about lifespan since the animals are pelted, JMO. I would not want a line-bred chin as a pet, been there and ened up with a dead pet.
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Post by chillinchinchillas on Mar 21, 2008 19:59:55 GMT -5
If the previous owner could not be trusted, who's to say they haven't mated and produced kits in the past? I doubt they would be honest about it. I'm sorry. People like that make me ill!
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Post by tarheelgal28 on Mar 21, 2008 20:59:09 GMT -5
I wasn't saying it was right just saying it happens. I wouldn't personally do it but I am sure it goes on.
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Post by chinaddiction on Apr 1, 2008 22:29:32 GMT -5
we have a pair that have been together since birth and they had been produceing litters for the 4 yrs they had been together, but the woman that had them got really sick and could no longer keep them so she called me, well the last litter they had was 4 kits and since we got them at just 3 weeks i figured that mom was probably prgo again, but when we took them to the vet she wasnt prego, well i decided that we would get him fixxed and that way the 2 of them can be together, well that was 8 months ago and so far he has had no interest in her in that manner, but while he was at the vets i thought for sure she would die as she went into a very deep depression and refused everything, food water treats everything, but the day he came home as soon as i walked into the house with him and the carrier the female started calling him, as soon as he heard her he started calling back, these two are very strongly bonded and to seperate them in my opinion would mean a death sentence for one of them, so they will live there lives out here and they will be together forever,
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Post by mistywaterwoman on Apr 2, 2008 13:03:24 GMT -5
Well, that's a happy ending for them!  At least they got to stay together. In Quinn's case there was also a lot of fur chewing, so we know that Yin was very stressed... She's actually doing much better since being seperated. |
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