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I bnever see mto keep this up to date!
The shows this year have been good - the american imported whites - manuka and amallow have both done well at shows now - one got Best Mutation (Mallow) and the other got Reserve Best Adult Mutation (Manuka) - a good start to a whites breeeding program.
They are both now paired to three females each (5 std and a beige) so look forward to some future good kits there.
Collected a lovely BV male at last after months of trying to find one - got one of a top breeder - he hasnt been shown, and now im in the main show i shant show him - so have to wait for his kits to be shown to see the results of the breeding on that line- he is currently paired to a single std female as he only just 7 months - but shall extend him to more top std females as he ages a bit.
The others have all been well- we did have a sad unforutnalte death of a male standa who had only recently arrived that caused a huge panic- so had a full post mortem done and turned out to be kidney failure - so not something that in that incident could have been known or avoided :( |
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Well last sunday saw our best show result ever!
Grat you may think - but not so.
due to new NCS rules once a novice memeber acheives a good result in the main show winning a champion class or being reserve in it, then they automatically forfeit their novice satus and move up to the main show.
Well Ambrosia - a pimk white i bre myself out of Tallow (WW) to Bart (bge) went and got herself Reserve Best Adult Mutation - a far jump up from where she was at the show before that she attended - where she was said to be tinged.
So im happy she won - but annoyed to lose my novice status now when i had the next 218 motnhs stil lto plan and get the whole herd to the level required to compete at that level.
After all one good animal I bred myself doesnt make a good herd! Shall be very interesting to see how she shows at the next show now to see if they call her tinged or not.
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Well things have been very busy around here!
I have been rushed off my feet with babies, hand feeding large litters and generally trying to plan what I want to do with the lines this year as i pair them all up ready for next year.
The charcoal lines have been cut back a lot as tehy were simply starting to take over at a time when I did not have the sapce to let them - so they have been cut back now to about 10 animals who shall stay pair breeding until i get my sapphire lines sorted.
The additon of new american line whites and beige males has mleft a need for the standard females to go to them in order to get the best kits out for the show bench for the future.
We have been very lucky with the sapphire lines and produced a number of strong animals from carrier to carrier pairings - some of which have been sold on and some of which we are keeping for future breeding.
We have just added a new mailing list to our site (on hte front page) wqhich will enable people to join and keep up to dat e by email no the changes that take place or the for sales which we are adding.
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I currently have listed for sale on EBay a GIANT chinchilla cage.
It is 8 foot long, 3 foot high and 3 foot wide with lots of pine wooden shelves.
It is big enoguh to put a small apple tree trunk in with your spoilt pets - (it had one when it arrived!)
It flat packs for easy transportation.
Any reasonable offer accepted as proceeds are going towards the rescue work that I do - as the cage was dontated to me for this purpose. I had been used for a year to house a group of chins in a colony style.
The auction can be seen at: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...E%3AIT&rd=1 |
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Its that tricky time of year again wheni have to work out who can and cant be paired up, which kits i want to grow on and whihc need to be rehomed - as well as trimming out the adults that are overpopulated genetically now
so the for sale page has had a lot of additions today.
always a difficult time in letting them go - especially when at present the recessive charcoal lines have done so well that their are now a large number looking for new homes. With the colour being so rare (as far as i know only being bred in hte UK stil as Europe and America refer to light ebonies as charcoals)
Looking to get a new chin? may be something will suit you :)
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Sadly i shall not be available to help with advice or sales by telephone between the 11th May and 25th May - as I am in Florida ;)
I am still replying to emails though which are sent.
Upon my return home there shall be a number of young male and female standards listed for sale along with the others currently available :)
May. 14th, 2006 @ 10:17 pm
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Wel lthe new imports arrived - and they are even more stunning than I expected - even make the imports form the past seem not so good
The BV grand champ male is especially stunning - he has been named Marula by Jason after an African tree.
The Sapphire male and the carriers all also are great - and seem to be very blue - so shall be interesting to see what they produce when paired together - as intend to breed the American and Frnech line sapphires totqally seperate to the UK ones to start with at least.
Shal be very intersting to se ethe kits they all produce later this year and next :)
Feb. 7th, 2006 @ 05:01 pm
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Well im all excited.
The latest batch of imports arrives tomorrow.
follwoing an unsuccessfull search for top quality BVs in the UK I had to extend my search worlwide nad have been lucky enough to find a Show champion male BV who is arriving tomrrow, and additionally a BV SC male who is also very good quality. They arrive along with a few other animals that will be a huge assest to the breeding lines here
I shall update more about them when i have got them and settled into quarantine
Feb. 6th, 2006 @ 12:01 am
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Well my chins taught me a bit of a lesson tonight - thankfully without harm!
When doing my last check of the chins tonight i noticed that a cagethat shouldhave a sapphire in it had not one but two bodies - onre being a pastel! Cocoa and Zinnia were curled up fast asleep.
normally their polygomaous collars stop them being able to leave their own cages - but the male had chewed cocoas collar allowing her to get up and over the tunnel run into the next cage - thankfully each row of cages comes out for their exercise runs together- so they were friendlywith each other and used to each others company - but in a unit where the chins dont get exercise or meet each other it could have been nasty as a female normally will defend her own territory against any strangers coming in.
I cvheck the tightness of the collars weekly when i weigh them, but hadnt thoguht to run my figners round the edges to se how chewed they had been - its something new to add to my regualt routine now.
Feb. 5th, 2006 @ 11:59 pm
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Well Mimosa decided to deliver her litter last night - at 11.30!
I had been hoping for a pink white girl as the dad is Bran the american pink white male import - but sadly she only produced standard kits - but thankfully they are both female- so there is a chance that at least one ofthem shall stay here when they are grown as i have no kits off either mum or dad currently ion the herd here.
They are probably the tichest furred kits i have ever felt - and good weights at 49 and 52g. I had been worried that she was gonig to have triplets again this time - but thankfully she didnt! Im not sur ewhat has got into my animals lately but they have all been having larger litters - not a trend i am really happy with as it takes more out of the mums and often the kits are weaker, or you lose one or two.
Sadly the little boy from Liaras litter of triplets died - he had been feeding and had a full belly and gaining weight but just didnt look healthy and sadly drifted away :( The two girls May Chang and Mandarin are growing well :)
Jan. 24th, 2006 @ 11:55 am
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A few days ago i had the very pleasant surprise of finding Liara had had triplets, three full sapphires! The kits were two females and a male. Thgier weights were rather small - two at 39g and a 42g, so i wasnt sure that all would make it - but they have soldeired on and all continue to grow, all be it slowly.
I have been very lucky lately my last three litters have all been sapphire related and produced full sapphires and one royal - considering that two of the pairings were carrier to carrier, and only the triplets were from a sapphire to carrier (as it was the first litter for both parent and wished to try and obtain a sapphire from the pairing to ensure carrying the line on if i should lose either of them - as has happened in the past :( )
My sapphire lines are going from strength to strength - most of the carriers I show now are getting awards, which is a huge step up from the original parent stock that I had been using, which did not acheive awards when shown.
The charcoals and pastels are slowly moving in the same direction too - but with their natural colouration often leading to a tinge the effort and work needed there is greater. REcently two very nice char carriers from Davidson chinchillas have done extremely well at shows - I shall be glad when my own char carriers get to that level. Eben some of the carriers I have bought in from one of the UKs top breeders havent acheived anything upon the show bench because the colour is so far down in colour with regards to show quality. Over time this is likely to change but short term means more work and effort on producing carriers using the top standards that we have to then cros these carrier to carrer. It is a lot of time, effort and space, and for now i have had to cut back on the charcoal lines as the main focus has to be the sapphires, and pure standard lines.
Jan. 18th, 2006 @ 09:46 am
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I read with some interest today some comments regarding my previous posting and one comment of it with regards to a person being larger than myself struggling to get in my chin room - its is funny how they see this directed as a personal attack and look for sympathy for it. The entrance to my chin room is a gap no bigger than 18-24 inches wide - a lot of my friends cant enter the room, let alone the biggest gossip (amount of lies spread rather than actual size) - so for her to visit to see the animals would be almost impossible without removing cages for her to enter. That was my comment and still stands - but it is intersting to see again how it has bene taken out of context and used in a manner to try and cause further problems.
I find it so sad that so much time and attenetion is focused on causing problems - my normal view of such things is to live and let live - people will always have disagreemenets and fall outs - but it is one thing to dislike someone another to attempt libel and slander - both of which are legal issues to be followed up.
Thankfullty regardless of their trouble making there have also been many comment of positive support and encouragenmebnt - fomr breeders anbd novices, some ofwhom were friends some of whom werent. I have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, and dont feel a need to be drawn into the petty world of illusionarry lies being created.
What matters to me at the end of th eday is the chins, their health and safety - and there is no question of that.
My chins are fine - as testified by the RSPCA, NCS, Environmenetal Health and Housing - the only person with a problem about them hasnt even been here to see them.
As far as i know their chins are fine too - so have no need to comment on them. Just because personalities clash i dont fel a need to attack her personally, though we may sometiems lash out in anger at gossips libellous diatribe so far i have kept myself restrained.
As i have always saidto people - if you have woirriesor concerns about me or my chins - speak to me, not about mye behind my back. I would give you the same courtesy.
Jan. 18th, 2006 @ 09:30 am
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Well what is it with the world of chins - it seems that there are so many people involved in chins that have nothing more to do with their lives than pick and grind at others rather than working together in support.
This is a post to address some of the gossip and rumours I have heard about me in the last few months - amazing how much there can be about people. I have heard similir - and worst about many other people too - some top breeders who have been about for eyaqrs. It seems the whole showing/breefding fraterntiy is encased in a mist of gossip, libel, slander and bakc biting. This is mainly down to a VERY small ghroup of people with very large mouths - if you are into the showing world it doesnt take too long to identify who they are - all mouth and no brian is my usual attitude to them :) If i have a problem i will address it and speak to a persnoal direct - not snipe and take sly digs - why cant more people be the same? Keeping chins should bring out the love and compassion in people and their mutual love of a such a beautiful anima;l - instead it brings out greed, envy and jealousy - they dont sit well on me- but tehy sit on the people that find them at home with their own issues and self depreceition.
Last year i had a bout of fur fungus here due to helping a freiend - an article of it appeared in teht NCS Gazette for Dec 05. And that was cleared up by the end of the summer last year after a lot of hard work, effort, time and money. But certain people take a rumour and spread it as solid gossip - one of the worst for that has been again a person ihad problems with last year, a realtive new comer not been in the NCS that much longer than myself but does do the main show, no idea why she has this need - maybe she feels threatened in some way? Or maybe just so gullible that people with more intellect can get her to do their dirty wortk for them, as she passes on information as fact when she hasnt actually checked or seen for herself. She has been offered to visit in the past many times but never has - so obviously the conditions she perceives and her "concern" for he animals is less than her need to feel important with gossip and scaremongering. Probably its a good job as she is a very large lady and would have problems getting into my chin room where the space is more dedicated to the chins than people, as those that have visited know
due to her constant trouble making lately, the NCS commitee approcahed me and askedif i would mind onbe of their memebers coming round to see the conditions for themself and see if there was aproblem - of course i had no problem with this at all and said they were wwelcome any tiem and just to call up and come round. A vist was done - and as expected no problems.
I have now had people send to "check up on me" fro mthe Environmental Health, housing office, RSPCA and the NCS - all because of gossips and there need to procreate random rubbish not based on facts,. none of the official bodies had ANY problems at all with me, my animals or there care -and they are winning awards when shown - smething ill or poorly kept animals wouild not do. so why do they still feel the need to gossip?/ are their lives really so sad?
There is also antoher case of gossip going about regharding me. I sold a black vevlet female for £100, a fair price I believe as she was from pedigree lines, had been shown and got an award, and had good potential to get better as she was only young. I have paid more than that for all my Black s with pedigrees - and that is withjout any awards at all - but i was slagged off for overcharging - if anyone knows of a full pedigree ribbon winning black for £100 please do let me know as i want some! I only sold that one as in her pedigree, when i received it, i found that one of her grandparents was an ebony - which meant that there were ebony genes flaoting through her that could come out. The person that bought her was inmformed of this.
The chin had been in breeding for approximately amonth when i diuscovered this so immediately removed her and listed her for sale as i did not work with ebonies. The person upon enquiring was informed that there was a slim chance that she may be pregnant - though her weights at the time did not suggest it as it was very early on. She said shewas happy with this and paid a deposit for her as i ask from all my anima,s. She then came back to me after chatting to a certain gossip and said she had changed her mind and wanted her money back. I refused. I told her if she was concerned i would hold the female for her for a couple of months to make definetly sure she was not pregnant before she was moved - she chose not too and still wanted to take delivery. I then said if she did happen to have kits i would be interested in getting back a kit from the litter to see how it developed as it would be the first litter from the male that she had been paired with and wqould liek to see how it developed. She also said this was fine.
After taking delivery of the chin i then heard a lot of gossip that i had said the chin was pregnant and too small to breed (she was over 500g and over 550g i think if i remember right) so on the small side of most females but in the safe zone for breeding (the male she was too was small as well), i also heard that i was supposed to have said that she MUST give me back all the kits - i would have bought one back to see the line developed as mentioned - but didnt want the kits at all as they were ebony lines and no use to myself in my breeding.
The chin did go on to have kits, and mum was fine and raised most of the litter problem free. The new"caring owner" then rehomed mumm and kits as she had changed her mind about breeding chins after all!
Since then it seems that thisperson has constantly repeated the tale in her woe is me style. It does make you wonder as to the motivation factor that drives people - as it obvoously is not the concern for the animals welfare - else why rehome it so soon after saying on CU that it would have a home for life becasue of its horrible treatment with me
So a word to the gossips - get ya facts right!
Some i have heard said about me and my home:
Someone found the smell so bad they threw up when here - the only person from the chin worl i know that has thrown up here was due to alcohol - but i shant name her to spare her blushes :)
My coffee cups are so disgusting you shouldnt risk them - im sure the other half will be sad to know his washing up is so bad as he spends hours doing it :)
I sell rescues as pedigreeechins - when people come to get a chin from me they get given its history as far as i know it, and in most cases can meet its parents, grandparents - and in a few cases great grandparents.
I make up pedigrees - i dont have a need - most of my animals have full pedigrees ( some fro mcertain breeders dont as they never issued pedigress and they are simply of the peds as saying DFrom Paul Danes lines etc). This gossip came about because of the silly person with the BV mentioned above. One of the parents to the BV was from Paul Spooner a top UK breeder, and when he buys in an animal he gives it his own codes which start with a X - there were a lot of them in that pedigree - but she assumed i had made up the pedigree as they were not proper codes! all i did was copy it onto my format off the original.
I have fur fungus - hmmm its been gone for probably about 6 months now - confirmed by vets and the NCS visitor,
I had a dead chin left in a cage when someone visited - we all have some animals die occasionally and it is sad. but there has never been a chin found dead in a cage here when a visitor was present, so no idea where this rumour started - unless someone saw one asleep lying on its side - as many d0 - and assumed the worst?
Thats the ones i can rememebr for now - but i know there are more.
so what to be done about it? generally i ignore such rubbish - it has had littel affect on me and my animals, my kits still sell to the people that take the time to come and see them for themself or phone me and speak to me as a person. If you hear rumours aboutr ANY breeder - DONT automatially belvie them even if they do come from a few differnt places - one gossip putting words in ears spread out can get a whole pile of lies spread VERY fast - and too soon people can assumethem as fact. Instead of passing those on - look for yourself, speak to the breeder. go visit and see their animals and cages. dirty animals, cages, homes show up immediately.
My message to the gossips:
Use your brain and not your mouth - focus on your faults not others then maybe we can all get along a bit better
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 01:56 pm
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WEll been a while since i posted again.
I have redesigned hte web site yet again -then scrapped it as changed my mind.
Have also started working on the online shop to go with it - but keep changing my mind about what to add or do with it all. shall haveto make a decision soon the old sit eis looking a bit stale now and really needs updating.
Have had a lot of babies born, sold few, had a few sad deaths :( Coup-le from accidents with legs getting caught in the standard cage mesh - 2 in one week was very odd as had only had two i think before in al lthe time i had kept chins.
I have had some more imports reserved to come over next month - looking forward to getting those - they are mainly from American lines or actually bred over there - so shall be great for the gene pool here and expanding the quality and sizer of what I already have.
I have decided to cut back the charcoal lines - they seem to have taken over. Last year i had a lot of kits from those lines as they mainbly had triplet litters - when I started with them I was told that they were slow breeders and didnt produce much of often! Something they like about here obviously.
The new year has been off to a swinging start - had few babiues born already, which isnt the best time forthem as they cant be shown age wise now until september which means if want to get them assessed tehy need to stay till then.
Sold the Royal Blue that I bred, he has gone off to a lovely home with people that I have dealt with before - they really look after their animals well and keep me updated all the time - so am very happy for him to have gone there.
Jan. 15th, 2006 @ 01:26 pm
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http://www.petitionthem.com/?sect=detail&pet=1931
Sign this petition to keep UK shows for companion animals :)
Sep. 16th, 2005 @ 05:10 pm
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Tonight i lost a female Charcoal carrier.
She had arrived to me preggers and i hadnt know it - she was gaining weight steadily but tonight i found her in her cage dead.v Veyt thinks the kits were overdue and were far down in pelvis but it had not opened for htem to pass :( I feel terrible that hadnt found her earlier and been able to get her to the vet to save her andhopefully the kits through a C section.
I have been lucky this year - this is the first female to have problems with a birth that needed vet asistance for me - in the number of litters i have had this is extremely lucky.
Aug. 4th, 2005 @ 11:56 pm
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Well today saw the arrival on Kims baby - it was a month earlier than expected. Having him today means she got preanangt within the first few dyas of being opened to the male! She has had a standard sapphire carrying kit, the dad is a sapphire bred by Bert Bouwens.
The kit is a lovely respectable 55g in weight and already running about and climbing up the bars - shame it was only the one tho as her kits always have such very thick fur! Spruce her last kit is getting very very thick and dark now he is 7 months old approx - but could be a big bigger but I think that was his dads influence as his dad was only just 500g.
Im still chasing pedigrees form one breeder that I had three animals off - she keeps promising to send them but still havent received them. I find this soooooo annoying as it means you cant pair the animals up until you know what lines they are from and whether they could brealted to anything you are planning to pair them to - it also means that i dont even have the birthdates in some cases for them!
Had news off one of my breeding program shares that three females seem to be pregnant to a male i lent them - this is good news for both of us as we share the kits 50/50 so i get new blood lines into my herd, and they increase their own.
Aug. 4th, 2005 @ 05:07 pm
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Well im not sure whats going on with my char lines but they certainly all seem to be well fertile!
Today saw lobelia having her litter (fathered by Charlie). It saw the arrival of another set of triplets - the 6th this year! - 2 males and one female standard charcoal carriers. Shame its more males than females again but at least they are all healthy and seem to be farily strong - the smallest is 42g the biggest 49g - shall check those weights and sexes again later.
Ordered more pellets again today - thats over £700 worth i have bought in this year - im using a sack a week at hte moment as the chin numbers are high and so many of them have taken to wasting the pellets and shovelling them out of thier bowls! Some of those pellets have also been sold on to others I hasten to add ;) but anyone getting into chins to make money is on to a big loser! The cost of pellets, cagers, vets and elec bill for the air con more than eats uyp any profit you could expecxt to make. Not surprising so many try and getinto them formoney then soon give up - been surprising how many ahave come and gone in the two years I have been intersted in showing.
There are some more charand sapph litters due soon but am nearly at an end of all the ones that are expected now - then shall not reintroudce the pairs until nearer december so everyone gets a good rest and the babies will be the right age for showing next year.
Aug. 3rd, 2005 @ 04:07 pm
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Well Tiggy surprised me today by having her litter - 2 females - a white and a standard.
Am really surprised she has had them already as she got pregnant only a fortnight after being put back into breeding after a 6 month rest - the father to the litter is Burr the standard male i got from Aileen at the National show this year - his first litter :)
Honesty looking well and bouncy today - running about as if she had not been pregnant at all.
Got to sit down and plan all my new breeding pairs soon. Have Bart back from Jessica where he had been on loan to her (anbd produced a gorgeous litter of a standard male and a beige female that should do well when shown). Freda and Layla both not paired properly at the moment so shall seperate them from their current cage mates (young females) and then put them to a decent male for some future good kits.
Aug. 2nd, 2005 @ 10:08 pm
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