Muffin's baby

New pictures of Muffin's baby at about a week old.

She is SO Cute!

Chinchilla YARN!

Here are some pictures of some gorgeous chinchilla yarn.  The yarn is handspun (by my mom :) ) and it is the SOFTEST thing I have ever felt. 

100% Chinchilla fiber!

Chinchilla fiber is really short so it is quite a challenge to spin.

White is Angora and gray is Chinchilla.  50/50.

GORGEOUS!

Note: To all animal lovers.  No animals were harmed in the process of getting the fiber.  The chinchilla fiber is combed out and the angora is plucked or cut out.  :)

New Baby!

Muffin had two babies on July 7th.  One was a GORGEOUS white ebony male that unfortunately didn't make it because he was breech and a adorable little white ebony female.  Here are some pictures of her.

Precious

Sophie singing to Champ

Talking....

As Sophie always says  "Champ just loves me!"

She is so precious sitting there like that

Singing her heart out to her biggest fan!

She can almost always calm him down.  It is amazing.

They are SO sweet together!

Louis 1st Birthday!

Louis turned one on June 29th!   I made him a cake and everything.

Yum!

The cake had some cooked chicken, hot dog, an egg, and some peanut butter.  Sounds amazing...for him to eat!

And he loved it!

Better eat it faster Louis!

"I can't get a big enough bite!"

Mom and Louis!

:)

Lots of horse pictures and my thoughts on chinchilla feed

I am experimenting with the benefits of feed when showing a chinchilla.  When doing this it is hard to see whether it is truly helping or I am just showing a better quality chinchilla than the other chinchilla that is not getting the feed.  However I do think that it is helping to some degree.  When doing this I have to be EXTREMELY careful that I do not cause the chinchilla to get Hepatic Lipidosis (I hope this is the right way of spelling it and I have the right name.  I tend to get names for diseases mixed up)  AKA The fatty liver disease.  This is caused when a chinchilla has to many treats or a poor diet.  I can go into that later but one of the symptoms is a hunched back.   Although rabbits are completely different than chinchillas I once got a mixture of what to feed show rabbits before they are being shown to improve the coat.  I add the supplement to the food I am currently feeding them 1/4 +/- of a teaspoon everyother day.  It consists of some Calf Manna,  Rolled Oats, and Black Sun Flower Seeds with the occasional Pearled Barley.  I am going to try different things within this to see the what works after I have time to get more research about it.  So far I have had no health problems to be seen and it is only fed starting 1 month in advance to a show (the next show isn't until October).  This is all my own opinion and I have spent alot of time researching this. 
Anyways on to something fun!  Here are some pictures that we took of the horses yesterday!

Isn't he GORGOUS?!?!?

She looks almost dead the way she is laying there!

Life is tiring and hard when your a horse.  You do almost nothing!

What a nut.  It is good that we have one clown!  She got her leg stuch ing the fence.

Champ again!

I was scratching her chest and she was making funny faces.  Sorry,  I look really bad in this picture.  I was cleaning chinchilla cages. 

More funny faces!

She is so graceful and elegant!

"What are you looking at?"

Horses are so funny looking when they get up!

Mid morning nap!

Sleeping hard.

ZZZZZ.....

Tate had treat's in his pocket and Jewel was desperate for a treat.  She is so cute!