~Another New Kit~

desiree_21 · 09-27-2004, 11:40 PM

I have finally hit a baby boom, I had second female kit born here (hetero beige) 2 days ago to my black velvet female and hetero beige male, both out of fur rancher lines from saskatchewan. She was born in a litter of 3 unfortunantly one was stillborn and the other looked to be premature...which brings me to a question....can a female get pregnant twice in a row?I am hopig to get some pictures up soon of her....I took some tonight but the disk i took them on is broken and none of them worked

velvetrabbit · 09-27-2004, 11:45 PM

I was wondering that myself, Desiree... I was reading in an older book by a rancher in Germany that Chinchillas:

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Chinchillas have a so-called duplex uterus in which the uterine horns as well as the uterus proper are set up in duplicate and are completely separate from each other, extending up to the mouth of the uterus.

This sort of sounds like rabbits -- they can get pregnant in either uterus, though usually they don't allow themselves to be bred once something has caught on in one uterus.... I dunno for sure about Chinchillas, though.

McCaille · 09-28-2004, 12:10 AM

I've heard of it mentioned quite a few times, females getting pregnant in one uterine horn and later getting pregnant in the other. Which seems to be what many believe to be the cause of drastic weight differences in babies/premature & 'normal' looking kits.

desiree_21 · 09-28-2004, 09:11 AM

I am guessing thats what happened, I have never seen this in chinchillas before, but heard about it in rabbits, which gave me the idea she may have been pregnant twice. The premature looking baby was very small about a 1/3 of the size of the other 2 kits and its toes did not look completley developed yet.

Lixx · 09-28-2004, 12:43 PM

Congrats on the new girl. Sorry to hear about the others.

I have heard instances where this has occured. I've always been slightly pariniod, but there's no real way to prevent

Chinnie Girl · 09-29-2004, 11:29 AM

Congratts, sorry for the loss though. I think Candy gave birth to one kit that was prematre, the other wasn't. So it's rare but it can happen, it was sad to see how tiny and fragile Stinker was compare to Trouble. But if the other one is healthy that's great news.