Available Chinchillas
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Cages should be all metal on the exterior and if they have plastic you should expect to replace it with wood as they *will* eat it.
| Cage Example Links |
| Ware Manufacturing makes a couple of chew proof cages. These are small but acceptable if you pull the wire out and replace with wood. |
| Critter Nation (horizontal bars) - these go on sale on Amazon and Chewy |
| Ferret Nation (Vertical bars)- these go on sale on Amazon and Chewy |
| Exotic Nutrition Makes metal cages. Avoid the ones with plastic bases. |
| Breeder Equipment/Metal Pans |
| Bass Equipment Where the professionals go and where you can get solid metal Ferret and Critter Nation replacement pans. You can request breeding runs to be built here. |
| KW Cages Makes custom cages, carriers and other supplies. |
| Klubertanz Wire, Watering System and misc metal parts. |
| VanHouten Cages Chinchilla Specific cage builder for pans and runs/holding cages and carriers. |
| Water Bottles (no drip) |
| Water Bottle Etsy No drip glass bottle, pet people love these. |
| No Drip Plastic bottles Large to small, 5.5oz works on carriers, larger for cages. Also has watering system parts. |
| KW Cages Water bottle assortment, they have this page hidden for some reason. |
| Carriers - All Metal |
| Bass Equipment - put the chin in one side and supplies in the other and seatbelt in. |
| KW Cages 6 Hole Carrier and 10 Hole Carrier. |
| Treats/Vendors/Stuff I Use |
| Hess Pumice This is where breeders get dust in bulk. The mine is in Malad City ID so if you are near there you can pickup from the office. |
| Rondas Chins Locally harvested woods, toys, treats and herbs (Oregon so no sales tax) |
| Carolina Chinchilla Supplies Fleece items, wood shelves, tunnels, dust, etc. |
| Chinnie Botique Where I've gotten some of my specialty themed fleece sets. |
| NWI Chinchilla rescue Supplies, I've gotten a few items from these guys at shows. |
| 26 Years of WTF - A few examples of Why I Made This List |
| Do not use paper bedding (carefresh, yesterdays news, etc) it kills. Do not set your chinchilla in its carrier on the floor of your vehicle, it will cook to death due to road heat. That's it, they can survive most everything else but as shown below there are some things you should avoid as they are power chewers and like any rodent will squeeze into any space their head fits. Not shown is fleece hammocks made out of nylon - those also cause a lot of gruesome hanging deaths/injuries. |
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You are welcome to contact me at chinpoo@sunsetchinchillas.com or call/text (318) 405-1163 to set up a time to visit and pick up a chinchilla. All of my baby chinchillas are played with daily though they are still very energetic and wiggly.
*Due to covid and very prolific Strep A/bacterial bronchitis I am meeting people outside. If you want a chinchilla, let me know which one and I will do my best to describe him/her to you. I am not allowing people to handle them then hand them back and leave - chinchillas can get the respiratory part of covid and bacterial infections just like any other mammal and I do not want to infect myself or the rest of my pets.
Due to the intense Texas heat please understand that I may rush you to put the chin (especially babies) directly into your vehicle so they can stay cool. I am happy to stand and chat as long as you like but they need to stay below 75 degrees.
Thank you for your understanding.
Current payment methods are Cash (preferred), Apple Pay or Zelle. If you choose to pay as services and goods I am required to charge applicable sales tax of 8.25%.
I will hold a chinchilla for 7 days with a non-refundable deposit of $50. This counts towards the total purchase price. After 7 days the chinchilla will be made available on the website again.
I do work full time so please be patient. This is a hobby I greatly enjoy at my home, not a business.
All chins must be picked up in person or you can arrange a transporter. Examples of the transporters people use are USHIP Pets and Citizen Shipper. It is up to the buyer to arrange and pay for these services, previous customers have been quoted $20-$400 depending on distance.
Once you find a transporter you can ask if they provide carriers - many do. You can also have one shipped to me, please include a water bottle if the chinchilla will be on the transport more than 12 hours. The transporters usually contact me to schedule a pickup time and we will go from there. Carriers need to be hard sided cat carriers, or if it is more than a 3 day trip they MUST BE ALL METAL. Chinchillas eat plastic and when they get bored and on long trips they chew right through those carriers. bassequipment.com Makes metal carriers. Any small wire cage with wire spacing 1" x 1" or less is acceptable.
* I can with 99% certainty ID via photo any chinchilla I have ever produced. Over time and generations the herd is shaped to characteristics I find appealing, especially in the head, the ears size/shape, width between the ears and eyes, color/hue etc. It becomes so uniform within a breeder's herd we can go to a show of 500 animals and point and say "That's a Mark Miller chinchilla" or "That's a Sunset Chinchillas animal" because we've unconsciously done this over so many decades. So while said chinchilla may not be from me there is a chance I can tell you where it is from, this includes pet store chins. The last two years most pet store animals have been supplied from the Czech Republic fur farms and have a very distinct look. When you produce pelts all animals -literally- need to look the same, and those do!
What determines a chinchilla's price?
It comes down to how keen I am on the chinchilla leaving. Sometimes they start high and drop in price if they aren't turning out nice enough to show. Sometimes they turn out so nice I decide to keep them.
-Show Quality
-Have they escaped and/or let others out recently
-Gender - chinchillas always produce more boys than girls so I almost always have a lot of boys for sale.
-Color
Cute Violet Baby
Below is a list of the chinchilla colors that can be born here;
Standard Gray - light to extra dark
Black Velvet
Hetero Ebony Chinchilla
Homo Ebony Chinchilla(+sc)(+vc)
Tan or Chocolate Chinchilla
Tov Tan Chinchilla
Mosaic Chinchilla(+sc)(+vc)
Tov Mosaic Chinchilla(+sc)(+vc)
Ebony White Chinchilla (+TOV)
Tan White Chinchilla (+TOV)
Beige Chinchilla (+sc)(+vc)
Brown Velvet Chinchilla
Homo Tan Chinchilla
Pinkwhite Chinchilla (+TOV)
Violet Chinchilla (+sc)
Beige Violet Chinchilla
Beige Sapphire Chinchilla
White Violet Chinchilla(+sc)
Sapphire Chinchilla (+vc)
Tov Sapphire Chinchilla (+vc)
White Sapphire Chinchilla (+vc)
Blue Diamond Chinchillas
White Diamond Chinchillas
Angora Chinchillas
I work with Angoras (RPA) and carriers (rpac) in Gray/Black Velvet/Beige/Mosaic/Brown Velvet and Pinkwhite.
(+sc) = Sapphire carrier
(+vc) = Violet carrier
(+TOV) = Touch of Velvet, short hand for Black Velvet
bdc = Blue Diamond carrier
bpc = Black Pearl carrier
RPA = Angora/Visible Long hair
rpac = Recessive Angora carrier.
