Diseases:

Chinchillas are resistant animals. They become seldom ill if one holds them appropriate for animal and nourishes healthy.

Most illnesses are to be led back on mistake of the animal holder: Failure, blockage, cramps, skin mushroom, ocular inflammations, cold, infections, anormal growing Nagezähne.

In the following the most frequent chinchilla illnesses, causes and symptoms.

 

  
 

Disease

Causes

Symptom

Veterinarian visit?

Fungur illnesses (on human contagiously!)

fungus

Perfectly circular loss of hair, itch, borkige skin changes, often with the chinchilla no symptoms

Veterinarian visit, cage disinfection, good hygiene and cleanness

Breath way illnesses (on human contagiously!)

Infections, bad posture, bad food, train air

Suppurating nasal outflow, strong respiration, breath noises, fevers, weakness

Veterinarian visit

Dental false positions, wrong growth

If hereditarily false position, wrong food (no gnaw material)

Feed refusal, excessive chewing movements, loss of weight, to saliva

Veterinarian visit

Flatulence

Sudden feed rearrangement, too much green fodder

Bloated belly, motionless sitting around, side position

Veterinarian visit, no food for 24 hours, painkiller

constipation

To dry feed rich in egg white, water shortage

No excrement, crouch squatted in corner, quiet complaint sounds (pains)

Veterinarian visit

diarrhea

Wrong feeding (too much green fodder), mouldy hay,

diarrhea, weakness, excrement-smeared anal region

Diet, the best hay, feed denial, tea
 
     
     
 

Frequently diseases:

For the prevention against illnesses absolute rest is to be guaranteed to the animal during his rest period during the day as well as to pay attention to flawless, always fresh feed and water, because put under stress it, otherwise, to or feeding-conditioned stomach bowel illnesses like failure or blockage can come.

Chinchillas incline with train air, to high air humidity or stress to colds which must express themselves by nasal outflow and Schweratmigkeit and be treated by the veterinarian.

Not seldom are the cramps which are to be led back on a lime or vitamin B lack as well as stress. Visit immediately the veterinarian and they provide for the fact that the animal has absolute rest.

Another alarm is a clear hump, the so-called. The nanny goat backs which points to heavy illnesses of certain internal organs, but also to posture and feeding mistake. The veterinary treatment is very laborious and can last several months.

As well as with other rodents there appear with chinchillas relatively often illnesses of the skin and the skin appendix things which can be released by mushrooms, mites or other Ektoparasiten.

As already appealed, the anomalies of the teeth which must be corrected by the veterinarian appear with faulty feeding (not enough Nagematerial and hay) fast. In some cases these anomalies are innate. These animals should be introduced regularly to the veterinarian.

Open wounds by bites or sharp edges should be cleaned as a first measure with 3% of hydrogen great oxide and be introduced afterwards immediately to the veterinarian, because with chinchillas the danger of a stubborn sore infection is very high.

Unfortunately, behavioural disorder is also to be observed like the Fellbeißen with congeners or gnawing own fur as well as Bewegungsstereotypien with chinchillas quite often. The causes for this are as a rule too small or überbelegte cages, stress by loudly noises, other domestic animals or disturbances of the sleeping periods, but also boredom with individually held animals. If you have recognised the cause of the behavioural disorder and have removed, the behaviour of the animal returns to normal as a rule after some time again.