What Can Be Used For Chinchilla Food?
A diet of chinchilla food is not particularly complicated. In the wild, chinchillas exist on a variety of food items. They eat fruits, vegetation and grasses, seeds, and insects. For some reason, possibly a result of breeding, this diet does not work well for the domesticated chinchilla. The difficulties encountered during the early 1900’s, in keeping captive animals alive in order to establish breeding programs, could have in part been due to finding out what food items were suitable, to ensure their well being. The easiest way to remember what to purchase for chinchilla food is to “think horses”. Horses eat hay, and that’s what you’ll want to have on hand to feed your pet chinchilla. Now a horse weighing 1,000 pounds will consume a 50 pound bale of hay in just under 3 days. If you get a bale of hay for a 24 ounce chinchilla, that hay is going to last a good long time. Dividing 24 ounces into 1,000 pounds may give a hint as to how long it will last. That is probably a silly calculatio
