The following text is a translation from the following thread "Chinchilla Jupp erklärt die naturnahe Chinchillaernährung" from our member "Schnubbels".
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Dear chinchilla owners,
My name is Jupp and I'd like to explain you now how you can feed us chinchillas appropriate.
But first I'd like to introduce myself with a picture. Here, that's me!
We will start with the most important issue: the herbal mixture
It's crucial that you use accurate big sized herbs. We don't want this tiny tea herb stuff
Aaand dried leaf mixtures tastes greeaat as well!
This look cannot lie:
Yummy... I'll take a leaf
I would never miss flowers. Our favourite ones are cacti flowers and mallow flowers, but a diverse mixture is always the best
Occasionally we also like smaller herbs. My owner buy for us always a tasty flower-herbal mixture called "AnSy's Kräutertopping".
Supplemented with some dandelion roots it gives us a delicious meal.
Let's contiue with the energy foods. As a little strongman I certainly need nourishing and energy rich foods as well. Oil seeds are suitable for us.
Yummy, that's sooo delicious
We don't want to feed dried foods only, that's not healthy! Therefore we need daily fresh foods as well.
We certainly accept some fruits and salad from your fridge. My fellows and I are fond of Belgian endivie.
Here is my crazy fellow, Edward is his name, and he loves creeping basketplant. I eat it also sometimes but he is addicted
Even more tasty are the fresh meadow herbs and the twigs with leaves.
You can collect this stuff for us, the more often the better. And you will take advantage from the fresh air
This fresh stuff is decorative as well and it makes my wife Lotta even more beautiful.
And whilst you are at it, you can dry this tasty stuff from outdoors to give us during winter. My owner is just preparing some weird bouquets which I can tuck into this winter
Please guys, don't forget our titbits.
Some of us like it sweet: yes, dried fruits
But I prefer nuts, especially apricot kernels and almonds
Well, that's it already, but don't forget that we always like change and variety in our diet. Come on, that isn't so difficult, is it?
Yours Jupp
Abstract in German / Kurzübersetzung:
Dieser Artikel ist eine Übersetzung von "Schnubbels" Thread "Chinchilla Jupp erklärt die naturnahe Chinchillaernährung" und erklärt wie Chinchillas naturnah ernährt werden können in Bildern und kurzen Kommentaren.
