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Chinchilla food can be ordered easily and quickly at DRD Rodent Shop ® The Chinchilla Webshop your Chinchilla!

You can order chinchilla food for your Chinchilla easily and quickly at DRD Rodent Shop. Do you want to spoil your Chinchilla with healthy, balanced chinchilla food? Here you will find different types of food for an attractive price. Versele-Laga, Witte Molen, Hope Farms, Supreme and others Ordering is easy and fast at DRD Knaagdierwinkel!

Chinchillas are small, folivorous/herbivorous (plant-eating) mammals and belong to the order of rodents. Chinchillas feed on plant foods and are able to process them optimally.

Teeth
There are two incisors in the upper and lower jaws, which, like the molars, continue to grow for life. A rough fiber structure in the food is necessary for tooth wear.

Stomach
The stomach is only moderately muscled and therefore cannot independently transport the nutritional mixture to the next part of the intestine. The following nutritional portions take over that task.

Cecum
Fine dietary fibers end up in the voluminous appendix, which are converted into proteins, vitamin B complex and vitamin K by special bacteria. That is why the appendix is ​​also called the yeast chamber. The formed caecal droppings are reabsorbed by chinchillas.

Ratio Crude fiber and starch

Crude fiber: Crude fiber is very important for health. They support digestion, the cecum and, with their rough fiber structure, tooth wear.
Starch: Starch is mainly an energy supplier and must be present in a limited amount in the feed.

A shift in the raw fiber to starch ratio can lead to long-term health damage:

Too little crude fiber leads to intestinal sluggishness, changes in intestinal flora and impaired functioning of the cecum.
Too much starch leads to eating breaks, changes in the intestinal flora, swelling, diarrhoea, fermentation, adiposity.

That is why vets recommend a minimum crude fiber to starch ratio of 3:1.

How do I actually know how much starch my food contains?

The composition is very useful here: whole grains (with starchy flour body), field beans, potatoes or peas are an indication that a higher starch content should be taken into account.

Chinchillas have a very sensitive digestive system. The food should not contain too much moisture. In addition to special chinchilla chunks, chinchillas need unlimited hay. Chinchillas, like rabbits, eat their cecal excrement. They mainly extract vitamin B12 from this. In nature, the chinchilla eats dried plant parts. The diet must be low in energy and high in fibre. The chinchilla's gastrointestinal tract is weakly muscled. The chinchilla should therefore not have too long eating breaks. Hay, in particular, must be available in unlimited quantities.

Fiber: Fiber is very important for chinchillas. The chinchilla's teeth continue to grow throughout life. It is therefore important that the teeth and molars wear sufficiently. This is done by eating raw fibers, mainly from hay. By chewing the long fibers from the hay for a long time, the chinchilla produces saliva. This saliva contains enzymes that start digestion. In addition to wearing down the teeth and molars, fibers are also important for digestion.

Protein: The diet should not contain too much protein. The appendix must be eaten by the chinchilla again. It is rich in vitamins and protein. If the chinchilla gets too much protein through its diet, this can prevent it from eating the appendix.

Fats: Chinchilla should not get too much fat. If the food contains too much fat, this can cause the chinchilla to take eating breaks. This can lead to digestive problems. A diet that is too greasy can also cause the chinchilla to become too fat.

Calcium: The chinchilla excretes the excess calcium through the faeces, and not through the urine as is the case with many other rodents. This significantly reduces the risk of bladder and kidney stones. An excess of calcium is therefore not immediately dangerous. A calcium deficiency is harmful to the teeth and skeleton. Young animals in growth and pregnant animals need a calcium content of 0.9%. For adult animals, a content of 0.6% is sufficient. The Calcium:Phosphorus ratio should be between 1.5:1 and 2:1.

Chinchillas are allowed to eat these plants

Wild Plants

Branches and Leaves

Vegetable

Strawberry leaf
Bindweed
Amaranth
Mountain savory
Mugwort
Buckwheat
Chives
Nettle (dried)
Goldenrod
Canadian fleabane
Bear's garlic
Dead nettle
Yarrow
speedwell
Angelica root
cow parsley
Great wall
Plantain
Cat's tail
Large poppy
Common agrimony
Marigold
Just pig grass
Ordinary rocket
Common hogweed
Bindweed
Horsetail
Herik
booth pod
Dog trot
Shepherd's purse
Hop
hawkweed
Hornflower
Stag hay
​Hedge vetch
Incarnate Clover
Japanese Knotweed
Mallow/Malva
Chamomile
​Adhesive herb
Nodding avens
Knapweed
​Knobweed
Cucumber herb
Compass lettuce
queen herb
Rapeseed
Cornflower blue
Cornflower Red
Coltsfoot
Clover
Wood sorrel
Burdock
Look-without-look
Lathyrus
violet
Daisy
Margaret
Reported
Milk thistle/Milk thistle
avens
Cranesbill
Dandelion
Bee bread
Arrowhead cherry
Pennywort
Pimpernel
clover
Comfrey
Coleus
Streak seed
Narrow plantain
Evening primrose
Torch
Valerian
Lamb's lettuce
Field cress
Five-Fingerwort
Feed vetch
chickweed
Flax snapdragon
Lady's mantle
bedstraw
Chicory
Wild carrot
Winter purslane
White Crooked
White watercress
Zengreen
Seven leaf
Silverweed
Sunflower
​Coneflower/Echinacea
Sorrel

currant bush
Apple tree
Apricot tree
Birch
Beech
Bilberry bush
Blackberry leaf
​Grape
Maple
Els
Es
European oak
Forsythia
Raspberry bush
Hornbeam
Hazel
Elm
Quince tree
Gooseberry bush
lime tree
Mulberry
Hawthorn
pear tree
peach tree
Poplar
Plum tree
Plane
​Ranunculus bush
Fig tree
Willow

Endive
Celery
Broccoli
Zucchini
Iceberg lettuce
Cucumber
Lettuce
Bell pepper
Parsnip
Parsley root
Pumpkin
Purslane
corn leaf
Beetroot
Red chicory
Romana lettuce
Arugula
Spinach
Chard
Tomato
Lamb's lettuce
Fennel
chicory
Carrot

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