13th December 2005:
Today Velvet (finally!) had her babies! She was so HUGE
that I was expecting a litter of at least 12, but she's
had quite a modest 7. There are 4 black-eyed and 3 pink-eyed,
I suspect PEW, knowing their genetics. The rest could
be chinchilla, agouti, or mock-chocolate (I think). I
haven't sexed them yet, and am off to Melbourne for a
few days tonight, so you'll all have to wait til I get
back.
19th December 2005: Liddle pink babies!
26th December 2005: Sorry for the lack of updates,
my computer has decided that the holiday season is the
perfect time to break down. *sigh* Velvet's litter opened
their eyes today and they are SO stunning. This is what
we have:
1 x chinchilla female STAYING
1 x pew female STAYING
1 x agouti male
1 x silver agouti male (small tail tip)
1 x pe bone male (off-white)
1 x pe ? male (dusky cream with blue/grey undercoat)
There's also a second chinchilla female who is the runt
and seeing as there are 7 babies, tends to miss out on
a lot of milk. I'm not sure if she'll make it, so I'm
not listing her. At this point I love them all so much
I may just keep them all! But, I will take expressions
of interest on the boys.
27th December 2005: I think the ? boy is an
extremely rare pink-eyed chinchilla, otherwise known as
argente cream. Wow! I am seriously considering doing a
second pairing of Velvet and Zircon - what treasures they
are! I am also thinking that I might indeed keep the whole
litter. I don't think I can part with Velvet's babies,
let alone some gorgeous rare colours - sorry guys! Here
are a couple of group pics, just cuz. First we have Gossamer,
Geiss and Ocher, and second is Vox and Archan.
 
28th December 2005: Got some individual profile
pics for ya!
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Zen
Gossamer lives here
Chinchilla Female
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Zen Archan lives here
PEW Female
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Zen Vox lives here
Silver Agouti Male (tail tip)
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Zen
Ocher lives here
Agouti Male
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Zen
Fortune lives here
Argente Cream Male |
Zen
Geiss lives here
Bone(?) Male |
17th January 2006: Today we said
goodbye to little Archan, the PEW girl, and yesterday
to the stunning silver agouti, Vox. Archan had been bitten
by my older girls when trying to introduce her, but was
not looking very happy prior to this and I'm not sure
she would have made it anyway. I have no idea why my gorgeous
Vox died - he was living with his brothers and uncle Ciaran,
and was uninjured and perfectly healthy the day before.
I don't know what to say, but am terrified that I have
done something wrong. I won't be repeating Velvet's mating
any more - just in case it was something that she passed
on. I will likely be breeding her chinchilla daughter
Gossamer, and her argente cream son, Fortune, at a later
date. Goodbye babies :( |
