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You can order chinchilla food for your Chinchilla easily and quickly from DRD Rodent Shop. Would you like to spoil your Chinchilla with healthy, balanced chinchilla food? Here you will find different types of food for an attractive price. Versele-Laga, Wi
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You can order chinchilla food easily and quickly at DRD Knaagdierwinkel® The Chinchilla Webshop for your Chinchilla!

You can order chinchilla food for your Chinchilla easily and quickly from DRD Rodent Shop. Would you like 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, etc. Ordering is quick and easy at DRD Knaagdierwinkel!

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

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

Stomach
The stomach is only moderately muscular and therefore cannot independently transport the food 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 fermentation chamber. The cecal droppings formed are reabsorbed by chinchillas.

Ratio of crude fiber and starch

Crude Fiber: Crude fiber is very important for health. They support digestion, the appendix and, with their rough fiber structure, tooth wear.
Starch: Starch is mainly an energy supplier and should be present in limited quantities in the feed.

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

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

That's why veterinarians 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: whole grain 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 eat their appendix feces just like rabbits. They mainly get vitamin B12 from this. In nature, the chinchilla eats dried plant parts. The diet must be low in energy and rich in fiber. 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 an unlimited manner.

Fiber: Fiber is extremely important for chinchillas. The chinchilla's teeth grow throughout its 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, fibers are also important for digestion.

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

Fats: Chinchillas should not consume 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 fatty can also cause the chinchilla to become too fat.

Calcium: The chinchilla excretes the excess calcium through the feces, 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 growing animals 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 can eat these plants

Wild Plants

Branches and Leaves

Vegetable

Strawberry leaf
Bindweed
Amaranth
Mountain savory
Mugwort
Buckwheat
Chives
Nettle (dried)
Goldenrod
Canadian fleabane
Wild garlic
Deadnettle
Yarrow
Speedwell
Angelica
Cow parsley
Great wall
Plantain
Cat's tail
Big poppy
Common agrimony
Marigold
Just pig grass
Ordinary rocket
Common hogweed
Hedge bindweed
Horsetail
Herik
Box peat
Ground trot
Shepherd's purse
Hop
Hawkweed
Hornflower
Deer hay
Hedge vetch
Incarnate clover
Japanese knotweed
Mallow/Malva
Chamomile
Cleavers
Nodding nailwort
Knapweed
Knapweed
Cucumber herb
Compass lettuce
Queen's herb
Rapeseed
Cornflower blue
Cornflower Red
Coltsfoot
Clover
Wood sorrel
Burdock
Look-without-look
Lathyrus
violet
Daisy
Margriet
Report
Milk Thistle/Milk Thistle
Avensis
Cranesbill
Dandelion
Bee bread
Arrowwort cherry
Penningwort
Burnet
Roller clover
Comfrey
coleus
Stripe seed
Narrow plantain
Evening primrose
Torch
Valerian
Lamb's lettuce
Field cherry
Five-fingerwort
Fodder vetch
Chickweed
Flax Snapdragon
Lady's mantle
Bedstraw
Chicory
Wild carrot
Winter purslane
White Krodde
Watercress
Zenegreen
Ground elder
Silver beauty
Sunflower
​Coneflower/Echinacea
Sorrel

Currant bush
Apple tree
Apricot tree
Birch
Beech
Bilberry bush
Blackberry
​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
Head 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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