One thing that our chinchilla's love is to run around free. In our Texas home we have room to let them, so every once in a while we block off the hall. After fifteen minutes of chinchilla chaos, they usually settle down and sleep next to my husband.
Top left is Quinn, is a standard grey and can sell for around $70. 
He was our first chinchilla.
Bottom right is our first female, Sugar. She is a beige and can sell for $125. My husband liked the idea of breeding so we purchased a second female. White chinchillas can sell for $160. Can you guess the name? (Lucy picked it out when she was twelve.) If you guessed Snowball, you're psychic. Last we have Stormageddon--Stormy for short. He was born Feb 11, 2014. His mom is Sugar and we kept him to bread with Snowball. He loves to bathe.This morning, I forgot to pull out his bath and he fell asleep. When I tried to remove the bath he bit me... the litter smucker.
Chinchilla's take a dust/ash bath because the dust gets in their fine fur and absorbs both oil and dirt.
Our first breeding experience.
Rocket and Sweet Pee.
Rocket and Sweet Pee.
Since that time Sugar has birthed four babies. The double chins (pun intended) and two other boys.
Snowball produced a mosaic, white with grey spots, which we named Patches. Mosaic chinchillas can sell for $225
Chinchilla babies are born with open eyes and all their fur. Within an hour or so after birth they can hop around the cage. Should any parent be interested in these lovely, sweet, and soft boogers heed my warning... chinchillas can live up to twenty years.
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