Proper nutrition is the key to the health, beauty and long life of chinchillas. In these rodents, everything directly depends on digestion, but at the same time the gastrointestinal tract is very weak.
It is necessary
- - feed granulate
- - food with prebiotics
- - complementary foods
- - branches of fruit trees
- - hay
Instructions
Step 1
Find quality staple pellets for your chinchilla at the store. The composition should contain herbs (herbal flour, fiber), ash, vitamins, minerals, organic acids, grain, vegetables. And nothing more! Good feed from German, Belgian, Dutch producers.
Step 2
Pick up complementary foods. You can find it in the store, or you can prepare it yourself. It should include: dried fruits (apples), berries (hawthorn, currants, juniper), dried vegetables (carrots), roots (chicory, calamus, dandelion), dried leaves (raspberries, birch, currants, hibiscus), carob, pumpkin seed, buckwheat.
Step 3
One feeding with the main feed should take 1, 5-2 tablespoons. It is necessary to ensure that the chinchilla eats the food completely. Feed 1-2 times.
Step 4
Treats must be given according to the scheme. For example, on Monday you can give 1 piece of apple, on Tuesday 1 piece of carob, on Wednesday 1 piece of dried carrots, on Thursday 2 berries, on Friday 1 pumpkin seed, on Saturday a couple of leaves. Break on Sunday.
Step 5
There should always be hay in the cage. A small bunch, the chinchilla should eat it completely. It is necessary for pushing food through the esophagus and grinding teeth.
Step 6
There should always be water in the cage. Bottled or boiled. You need to change every other day.
Step 7
For teeth, the cage should contain twigs of fruit trees, salt stones and mineral stones. Healthy teeth in chinchillas should be orange.
