last chinchilla herd member

[akane]

After some culling of the ebonies when they get old enough my chinchilla breeding group will be complete. We picked up our last female today. An ebony white. Unfortunately the new cages didn't arrive yet so we had to stop by petland on our way home and grab a temporary cage. I figured I can put the netherland dwarf rabbits in it when I'm done with it since Kido and unnamed doe are still residing on the floor of a 30x25" bird cage. Also will get $100-$200 for the bird cage.

 

[luvabunny]

Admittedly, I don't begin to know the first thing about chinchilla's, but why is it called ebony white? I've always considered ebony black and white is white.

The pictures are obviously not of a solid white animal. Is the skin black?

I had a horse that way once. Looked solid white until you hosed him down. Then you could see his black appaloosa spots.

Just curious. Very cute little beastie.

 

[akane]

She's minimally marked but she has light grey around her ears and eyes plus a very light streak on her back. Her brother had more ideal coloring with the true dark ebony splotch on his back plus some light grey and her sister has darker grey in the same places as her. She had better conformation and personality though so we chose her to breed to a dark ebony. Here's a close up from her breeder a few weeks ago https://scontent-a-dfw.xx.fbcdn.net/hph ... 4021_n.jpg

 

[MaggieJ]

She's very cute, Akane!

Hope she does well for you. :cute: :cute: :cute: :cute:

 

[ladysown]

she's pretty.

 

[akane]

She has been nicknamed Keck because that's the noise they make when annoyed and she's been scolding us since we brought her home. If you stick your hand in there she runs up and keck keck keck squeak (baby barking). She also kecks at us for keeping her corralled while out instead of letting her run free around the room yet. Oddly she doesn't keck at the dogs. Most of the new ones bark or get upset around the dogs for a few months. She just runs up to the bars and touches noses with them.