Kenzierey
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I have an 8 week old litter (turning 9 weeks on the 19th) and they are hardly growing. The doe is a wonderful cali and the buck was a large meaty American Chinchilla. I have heard good things about using AmChins and Cali's for a good meat hybrid but these babies seem to not be growing. It was a litter of 10, there are 8 left after one escaping and another going to a new home. I grabbed the fattest one and weighed him today and he was just barely 2 pounds. They are absolutely tiny. But they have fat, almost bloated bellies.
This is only my second litter and I am wondering if the bloated bellies could be a sign of something wrong. They eat like maniacs and their poops seem perfect. For a while, when our work schedules were crazy we were only able to go out to see them two times a day and they probably weren't getting as much food and water as they should have been. Could that be the reason they are so small? Could there possibly be a health issue?
This is only my second litter and I am wondering if the bloated bellies could be a sign of something wrong. They eat like maniacs and their poops seem perfect. For a while, when our work schedules were crazy we were only able to go out to see them two times a day and they probably weren't getting as much food and water as they should have been. Could that be the reason they are so small? Could there possibly be a health issue?