It is normal to give your chin a little attentions. This happens in particular through the bowl. Offering treats to your chinchilla to make it happy is possible, but you should follow some strict rules to ensure its well-being and health. If you’re wondering which foods to choose or avoid, you’ve come to the right place.

What Treats Can Be Given?

Hay, supplemented with specific pellets, is the basis of your rodent’s diet. But he can indulge the occasional tempting little treat.

Thus, essentially dried leaves and flowers will fill your beloved chinchilla with happiness:

• Rose buds and petals;
• Rose hips;
• Cactus, marigold, mallow, chamomile (Roman) and hibiscus (sabdariffa) flowers;
• Carob;
• Fennel;
• Plantain;
• Milk thistle;
• Leaves of nettle, dandelion, linden, hazelnut, blackcurrant, raspberry, mulberry, strawberry, blackcurrant, peppermint and mallow.

If you don’t buy them, you can make them yourself. It could not be easier. Wet these foods with warm water for a few minutes, then let them dry for a day or two. Make sure these natural treats are completely dry before delivering them to your foodie.

In addition to giving it gustatory pleasure, certain plants are known for their benefits. They contribute, for example, to good transit. They can have, in addition, tonic, diuretic, and immunostimulant actions. Treats have more than one asset in their leaves.

What Sweets Should Be Avoided?

Although your charming ball of fur loves little treats, she can’t ingest anything and everything. Products that are too rich, too sweet, and too fatty are not recommended. A plethora of treats, including fresh vegetables and fruits, may upset his particularly sensitive digestive system.

Dried fruits and oilseeds, such as walnuts, almonds, or even hazelnuts, are not on the daily menu. Likewise, parsley, mistletoe berries, and sunflower seeds can prove to be poisonous, as well as bad for his liver. In addition, a chinchilla does not eat acorns or chestnuts, real ambrosia for a squirrel on the other hand.

Food intended for us humans, such as meat, cakes, chocolate, and other sweets are to be banned imperatively.

Finally, as an owner, you must remain attentive to his consumption of plants. To keep it healthy, keep your companion away from plants that are poisonous or soaked in pesticides and other chemicals, or even contaminated by exhaust fumes. Roadside, city center: the places where the passages parade being polluted, do not pick up any plants there.

When To Offer Treats?

The chinchilla is prone to diabetes and its intestinal flora is fragile. Unsuitable food causes health problems, including diarrhea, and even, in some cases, premature death.

The proportions as well as the feeding frequencies are just as fundamental as the choice of treats. These should in no way replace his basic diet. You can distribute it sparingly, 3 times a week at most. A teaspoon is enough.