We received 2 chinchillas from my daughters class about 2 months or so ago. The teacher had been given them in the fall for her class and she was having a baby and decided she would rather give them a new home than keep them in the classroom any longer.
We have had a chinchilla years ago and we were given them to take care of. They have been perfectly fine until this week.
One chinchilla has been losing his hair. (I don't know the sexes of them, but I am told they are both the same sex). It looks to me like barbering from what I have found online. It started around the tail/rear area and now it is almost up to his next. It is in a line, so it appear to be eaten off in rows? No hair in the cage at all so I am assuming one of them is eating it. I have not caught this happening so I can't be sure. I am not sure how this chinchilla could eat his own hair so perfectly so I am assuming the other one is doing it, but I could be wrong.
What should I do? How do I stop this? And could it be something else, like a fungus?
We have had a chinchilla years ago and we were given them to take care of. They have been perfectly fine until this week.
One chinchilla has been losing his hair. (I don't know the sexes of them, but I am told they are both the same sex). It looks to me like barbering from what I have found online. It started around the tail/rear area and now it is almost up to his next. It is in a line, so it appear to be eaten off in rows? No hair in the cage at all so I am assuming one of them is eating it. I have not caught this happening so I can't be sure. I am not sure how this chinchilla could eat his own hair so perfectly so I am assuming the other one is doing it, but I could be wrong.
What should I do? How do I stop this? And could it be something else, like a fungus?
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