{"id":3264,"date":"2011-01-13T05:58:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:04:16","slug":"chinchilla-conception-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"Chinchilla conception report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/span> Just got an email saying &#8211; &#8220;Do you cover the cages at night? Believe it or not, they like \u201cprivacy\u201d. Will pass this bit of data along to Brigid and Joe.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually non-report, since there appears to have been none, nada, zip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This despite extensive introduction since Chili, the on-loan stud chinchilla, arrived December 28th (Go <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2010\/12\/conception-plans-at-farandaville.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> for the story).&nbsp; He&#8217;s spent plenty of time with our two ladies, Dusty and Gloria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gloria and Chili have spent the last day and a half co-habitting in Chili&#8217;s two level apartment. In the picture below, that&#8217;s Gloria on the top floor and Chili ducking into a box. They like to sit together (to keep warm presumably) but that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f7c76970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13682\" title=\"IMG_0769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f7c76970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f7c76970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the three of them &#8211; you can see Dusty in her own cage. Chili is at the feeding trough and Gloria upstairs. Dusty and Chili&#8217;s cages are close enough for them to rub noses, but that&#8217;s all they rub, even when they are together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f8715970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13681\" title=\"IMG_0776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f8715970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/6a00d834525a2f69e20148c78f8715970c-500wi-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brigid and Joe are having GREAT fun with this whole project. More to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: Just got an email saying &#8211; &#8220;Do you cover the cages at night? Believe it or not, they like \u201cprivacy\u201d. Will pass this bit of data along to Brigid and Joe. Actually non-report, since there appears to have been none, nada, zip. This despite extensive introduction since Chili, the on-loan stud chinchilla, arrived December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13683,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}