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【牙齿科普贴】【转载】牙齿咬合不正【龙猫吧】

萌宠菠菠乐园
2024-10-16 00:56

Treats should be very limited, at a rate of not more than one small raisin-sized piece of no-sugar-added dried fruit per day. We are referring to the small, "normal-sized" raisins, not the jumbo baking raisins, a piece maybe about the size of the eraser on a new pencil or a tiny bit bigger. If you feel your chinchilla is "missing out", you can provide them with extra chews (a new one each day, perhaps). Excellent wood chews can be purchased from Pet Products By Nature. Apple wood is a BIG favorite. We suggest placing a small order of perhaps scrap or a variety pack and ask for a sample pack so you can have something labeled with each kind of wood so you know what the chin likes and can be sure to order that in the future (each piece of wood in the sample pack comes labeled so you know what kind it is). These are a much more wholesome "treat" than any kind of supplement or sugary goodie, and will actually do them good, instead of harm. If the chin likes rose hips, you can give those as a treat as well. They are not sugar or grain based, and they're loaded with vitamin C, so they're healthful for them. The center of a rose hip has a hairy fluff and seeds, so they primarily eat the shell only. You can get rose hips cut and sifted (which is just the outer shell), or you can get whole. Rose hips, both whole and cut and sifted, are available at ForCHINate Chins.
We are giving our chinchillas with malocclusion the following products:
Vitamin C this is a mixed berry flavor and is quite tart. The chins seem to love it.
Calcium either the strawberry or blueberry flavor. The blueberry has a higher concentration of calcium, but strawberry seems to be a bit more palatable to the chins, although mine do like the blueberry as well. Do NOT get the store brand of this product, stick with the LifeTime name brand. The store brand has phosphorus in it, which you do NOT want. This is calcium citrate, which is much more easily absorbed by the body than calcium carbonate.
To make dosing of the liquid supplements easier, we use emptied medicine bottles from the vet, which have been rinsed out well and labels removed. Then the bottle is labeled with its contents. 1ml (cc) syringes used for the medicine that was originally in the bottles that have been rinsed out are what are used for dosing. Usually once they get a taste of these supplements and realize they're good, they will gobble them down and want more!
The dosage and frequency we are giving these vary depending upon the severity of the issues with the particular chinchilla. If you plan to try these supplements, we'll be happy to assist you with suggestions for dosing. Two of our chinchillas like Oxbow Daily C tablets, and they each receive one per day, opposite the time they receive their liquid supplements (tablets in the morning, liquid in the evening, approximately 12 hours apart). Be sure to store the calcium liquid in the refrigerator after opening. The liquid supplements as well as the Oxbow tablets could even be given in lieu of a treat if they like them that much.
If you decide to try supplementing of any kind with your chinchilla, it is important at the very least, to inform your vet that you are doing so.