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-Basic Care of Cavies- -Feeding Cobayas. The recipients for the food and the water.
It is not important the plate type in which you place the food, but I advise the recipients of resistant ceramic, manufactured for the rabbits or cats. This is because the lightest plates can be overturned when the cavies places their front feet on the border. Use two recipients, one for the fresh food as: vegetables and the fruits. The other one for the dry food as: it trenches and the one saved. The water was given by means of automatic dispensers, it consists on bottles placed face down and that they are held to the front part of the cage. They have a ball in their end that dilutes when being licked dispensation. Until they have the certainty that their mascots will know as using this dispensers, the best thing is to also give them the water in recipients. If he/she has to their cavies in the exterior, during the winter, the drops temperatures can freeze the ball and to make that it is hit so to the tube inside which is, it is important that it checks every day that this doesn't happen.
It is also important that their cavies has hay that is indispensable for its feeding. This can buy you in stores of animals, the hay comes in packages, there is hay that has vitamin C that is very important for its cavies since it is not able to synthesize it. Reason why it is necessary to be given it in their habitual feeding if we don't want that it suffers big dysfunctions, for that reason in their food he/she has to have green and citric pepper. It is also necessary to give him I think special of cavies, which can acquire it in any store of animals.
A rule of capital importance that we should obey when we feed to the cavies it is that the food should always be clean and fresh. Never leave fresh foods for their cavies during more than one day. Any food that has not been consumed after this period should be eliminated. The food that we take out of the refrigerator should be left that acquires an ambient temperature before serving it. Mix all these ingredients in a recipient, and next add some lukewarm water. He/she will have this way a delicious puree for their mascot.
The appropriate vegetables for the cavies are all those that are easy to find in the kitchen. The carrot, lettuce, the peas, the Jews, those spinaches, the brécol, etc... . He/she can give any fruit to their animals like: oranges, mandarins, apples, etc…
-Place were they live It is not difficult to please the necessities of lodging of the cavies. Unfortunately, many proprietors don't satisfy the necessities of their mascot, and they make them pass a sad life. It is important that it maintains far away the cage of currents, humidity and don't expose to their cavies For a cavies the minimum size of the cage should be of 65 cm of longitude x 40 width cm x 35 cm of height. Such dimensions only provided to their cavies a lodging with some minimum conditions of life for their use inside house.
In a permanent enclosure, it can provide to their mascots an interesting area so that they play, as putting them pipes of ceramic drainage. The cavies enjoyed running inside and outside of them. One of the characteristics of the cavies is their affability. They will be to pleasure with anyone.
The most popular channel for the warrens and cages that had inside the home they are wooden chips. For the area of the bed it can use hay on a paper base, the paper them to provide a warm base. Routine cleaning.
The cage should be cleaned with so much frequency as he/she leaves seeing that it is necessary, being based in the I number of occupants and, certainly, once per week. -Cavies hygiene. Cavies handling. The cavies is not, in some aspects, the mascots of easier handling. This doesn't have anything to Very rarely do with their character that is of first class, they will bite him and if they make it it is because he/she will have made something that he doesn't like a lot. Maybe a male was not shown so willing to forgive the wild handling as a female, but the males will even be shown very calm if they are managed in a correct way. When he/she catches to their cavies, it will tolerate the weight of their thorax and their abdomen on the palm of the hand and their doll. This way the short extremities of the cavies will be hanging to the sides of their hand, that which provided security to their mascot. Trim. The varieties of flat coat practically don't need trim of their coat, because this it is conserved under excellent conditions, but it is necessary to dress up them at least once per week. The varieties of long coat should be trim at least every other day if you don't want that they are formed hair balls. It is also necessary to clean them the hearings, since they can have them the dirty ones and to present paradises like acari. Also examine since the body they can also present parasites like fleas, ticks, (that if he/she has their mascot outside of house or have been in contact with dogs or cats that have been in their garden). I recommend the use of FRONTLINE or Ivomec (it is very important that toss alone a drop among the scapulas of the mascot ‘' repeats alone a drop since more than a they can suffer dysfunctions ' '). This preparat is very effective. The trim one makes something more than to improve the general hygiene of our mascot and also that you happen a little but of time with their cavies.
The cavies of long coat that are exhibited in competitions should maintain their wrapped up coat to prevent that he/she stains and that they are formed knots. Court of fingernails. It is convenient to cut the fingernails to the cavies, since they can cause bad in the paws and the long fingernails bother them to run. The cavies inside of you give their fingernails they have a sanguine glass and it is necessary to be careful when cutting them fingernails. I recommend that they use type nail clipper it guillotines that will be able to buy in their store of mascots. The bathroom. The cavies is animal very clean, but it is recommended to take a bath them at least once in three months, the hair copies release once since a month they get dirty but easily. The bathrooms are essential to eliminate the dirt and the lice of the coat.
The bathroom you can carry out in the sink of their kitchen. The water should be lukewarm, and never too hot neither too cold. Soak their mascot well, then toss soft shampoo that is specially designed for mascots, although a shampoo of you drink anger similar of well. Next he/she cleared up the shampoo with lukewarm water. Make sure that he/she washes the mascot well, if it is not this way the shampoo when he/she dries off it can cause irritations in the skin of their animal. This will also reduce the shine and that the hair sticks a little. Then wrap to their cavies in a towel and rub it vigorously until it is totally dry. Reproduction of conejillo of India
The breeding or reproduction of the conejillos of India is very interesting of this liking, but it should be thought a little before carrying out it. He/she should know if their conejillos of India is of the enough quality like to make them raise, since he/she has not very sense to make it because if. He/she should also keep in mind the lodgings extra that you/they will be necessary him to accommodate to the descendant.
Sexado.
As for their aspect, the cavies doesn't differ significantly according to their sex. The male is usually of more size, but this is not a reliable way, since it is a relative aspect. There are males and big and small females. The only reliable form so that sexe to its cavies is to inspect its genital organs. This one can make placing their hand smoothly on the back of the cavies and putting him face up, so that their stomach is this way up. In a mature individual we will be able to see the male's testicles, but if it is a young individual, these they won't have descended completely until the interior of the sacks escrotales. In this case it will place their thumb and index to each side of the genital hole and to press down and toward it was very smoothly, this will make that the penis will become visible. In the case of the female we will be able to see a small fissure. The cavies reaches the maturity toward the 3 months, but it is better than they have approximately 6 months before he/she makes them raise. It is better than the male he/she has more age, since the males mature more slowly, even although they are sexually mature to an earlier age. In fact, none of the two sexes is, from the physical point of view, totally mature until reaching the age of 12 or more months of age, and they don't reach their maximum weight until not arriving, approximately, to the 18 month.
State for the breeding. This finishes he/she makes reference to the physical state so much of the male as of the female (especially of the female). If a female is below her normal weight and she makes it raise, they can have problems in to the childbirth or that the breedings are born with some problem. Their diet should be balanced and it should not be in stres situations. Dates for the reproduction. The period of zeal of the hard female about 14-17 days. You can place the female next to the male in the lodging of this and to leave them together until the female has signs of being putting on weight. It can calculate, in an approximate way, when he/she will give to light. Starting from there separated to the male a couple of weeks before the childbirth. The duration of the gestation in the cavies can go from the 62 to 72 days, although the accepted period is of 63 days. The half size of the litter will be of 3-4 animals, but the cavies they can have up to 10 breedings, although this is something very strange. Many maybe have alone 2-3, so don't worry if the litter is small.
The period of gestation is long, since the breedings are born with its complete coat, with open eyes and being able to chase after, approximately, one hour after the birth. They begin to consume solid foods after 24 hours. The female breastfeeds the breedings during 4-5 weeks. Alone they have two nipples, but it is unwrapped quite well, since the breedings can eat independently of her from a very early age, so they are not completely concerned to constantly get milk.
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