I focus primarily on standard grey and black velvet chinchillas, but I do have a few breeders to produce white, pink white, violet, ebony, and Lowe's recessive white. Since I do not focus on these mutations, they are not often available for sale. Since starting in chinchillas, animals from my breeding have taken numerous high placing awards from reserve class champions through grand show champion.
My animals are selected based on quality, health, and often even temperament. All babies born here are handled from the moment they are born and are well socialized with people and other chinchillas. Any baby born here would make an excellent pet and many of the animals I grow out would make excellent, high quality breeding animals. Prices for animals will depend upon gender, age, and color and the starting price list can be found on our website at www.rdzcranch.com/for-sale
I am happy to help any new owner or breeder for chinchillas, but please keep in mind that breeding is not something to be taken lightly. I require that you be mentored for a minimum of five years by myself or another experienced, reputable breeder that I am well acquainted with if you choose to go down the path of breeding. Mentorship includes visits by me to inspect your setup and ensure proper safety of caging for mothers and babies and extensive talks on chinchilla health, anatomy, genetics, and breeding in which you are required to keep and maintain a notebook of important information. All of your chinchillas for breeding should be pedigreed and properly evaluated for health and quality by an expert breeder before being paired to produce babies. Just as with breeding any other animal, you are going to be responsible for bringing another animal into the world and this is not something to be taken lightly just to produce cute babies. We love to help new breeders and strongly encourage doing this as long as it is done properly. The average lifespan of a chinchilla is 10-15 years, so a commitment to a chinchilla as a pet or breeder is the same as it would be for a dog or a cat. These are rodents, but they are long lived with amazing personalities and deserve to have a lifelong home. Please consider this age range and their very specific temperature housing conditions before considering purchasing a chinchilla.
