About Chinchillas
LUKE AND LEIA - MY FIRST HOMEBRED SILVER CHINCHILLAS
LOVELY AURORA AND WINSTON
CURRENT SHOW PIGS
LATEST NEWS ON THE CHINCHILLA :
THE GUIDE STANDARD HAS BEEN CHANGED, WILL START IN 2018
THE GUIDE STANDARD HAS BEEN CHANGED, WILL START IN 2018
Here is the Guide Standard for the Chinchilla that has been approved by the RVCC and BCC and will start from January 2018. Please note the name change for each colour is different!!! This will take some time to get used to! :(
So now, for example, a Silver Chinchilla is to be called a White/Grey Chinchilla!!
Here is a link to download a PDF file copy.
| Chinchilla Guide Standard 2018 |
Here also is my recent article about the Chinchilla that was in Feb 2015 Cavies Magazine, hope it is useful. Some of the photos may be repeated below.
Below is a picture of Maxwell and Mozart side by side (father and son), so you can see the difference in a cinnamon and a silver chinchilla. Then following the tradition is a picture of Mozart and Merlin, also father and son. Mozart here is now darker as he is older and Merlin is very pale as he is only 6 months old.
MAXWELL AND MOZART
MOZART AND MERLIN
Here is another one to compare with Merlin and Sugar.
MERLIN AND SUGAR
And then Sherbet with her dad Merlin.
SHERBET AND MERLIN - CREAM AND CINNAMON
Here is Leia, a good example of a silver chinchilla.
This is also a very good example of a silver chinchilla, a lovely photo of Sugar taken by Lyndon.
Here is Leia (left) again and her sister Topsy, when they were about 6 weeks old.
LEIA AND TOPSY
Below is a picture of two brothers born in June 2009, sons of Mandy and Maxwell,
Mozart is the one on the left, Magnus on the right. They look very similar to Leia and Topsy above at
about the same age. It is better to keep the paler babies
as they do get darker with age.
MOZART AND MAGNUS
Here is a picture of Mozart on his own, so you can see how much paler they are when they are young. This is a very good example of a young chinchilla, with very soft ticking, which produces a lovely pastel effect.
Here is a lovely example of a young Lemon Chinchilla boar with very soft ticking
and super markings.
and super markings.
Here also is Sherbet's niece Carly when she was just over 2 months old, she is a cream chinchilla.
