The most common diseases of chinchillas
To avoid the diseases of your pets, you should carefully follow all the recommendations of experienced breeders and veterinarians. Although sometimes even with high-grade feeding and good care chinchillas sometimes they get sick and die.
This can happen for a variety of reasons: in the stern could be the causative agents of infectious diseases, which then fell into the gastrointestinal tract and caused the disease of the animal or water was the source of microorganisms causing infectious diseases and poisoning.
Still need to consider what chinchillas havehigh intelligence and are very emotional by nature, therefore they are subject to stress, as well as acute and chronic cardiovascular diseases. At all chinchillas have strong immunity and do not usually do any preventive annual vaccinations. But with the weakening of immunity, animals can be susceptible to any disease.
Chinchillas carry infectious, non-infectious and parasitic diseases. Disturbance of the gastrointestinal tract is usuallycomes as a result of feeding poor-quality food. Moldy food, dirty, stale water, excessive consumption of juicy grass or a sudden change in diet causes diarrhea and constipation in animals. A change in the flora of the stomach or water regime can lead to the multiplication of microbes, which can lead to poisoning and death of the animal.
Fatty degeneration of the liver - a disease caused by consumptiongranulated products that have been stored for a long time. Fatting of fats, indigestibility of carotene - that's what happens in this case. Histological changes in the liver are the end result of such food. Therefore, it is recommended to include in the diet of substances that exert protective action and purify the liver.
If you keep a group of chinchillas, then skirmishes and "clarifying the relationship" between them - are inevitable. Often animals injure each other, and needbe able to properly help them, because the chinchillas have a characteristic characteristic, however, for all rodents - to gnaw out the broken limb disturbing them, or at least to try to do it. Therefore, it is important to properly apply tires, if necessary, to use painkillers to reduce the pain and anxiety caused by the wound.
The head and body scars must be treated with hydrogen peroxide, apply antiseptic ointment. In case of more serious injuries, you should consult a doctor and do not engage in "amateur" activity, as the animal may become worse from this.
Conjunctivitis in chinchillas can develop for several reasons. It can be getting into the eye of dust and small fumes, gases, means of disinfection, pathogenic bacteria. The uncleared litter with waste and urine, which emits ammonia, also irritates the mucous membrane of the eye. In this case, the eyes of the animal are washed with a 3% solution of boric acid or decoction of chamomile. In the treatment of conjunctivitis, eye drops containing antibiotics are used.
As animals grow, they have problems with their teeth, especially worried abnormal teeth growth and periodontitis. The teeth of chinchillas have open roots, thankswhich have the ability to grow throughout the life of the animal. In the natural environment, the chinchillas' teeth are erased as the owner's lifestyle leads them. At home, with a deficiency in the diet of vitamins A and D, as well as calcium and phosphorus, strong growth of teeth is observed. If the animal does not have the ability to grind its teeth on a hard surface, they begin to grow unchecked, which then leads to more complicated feeding. In this case, it is best to seek advice from a veterinarian.
