We have 400 breeding females with 60 males, and allways about 700 pelters in our stables. 

We have decided to work for extrem high quality animals with fewer animals instead of large scale breeding. This way we can control all processes in the breeding ourselves.

The stables are set up with plenty space and air around the cage-lines in order to improve the enviromental conditions for the animals.

We have seperate stabels for breeders and for pelters so we can have diffrent tempreture.

The stabel buildings are constructed like a normal house, with propper insulation and ventilation.

This helps us keep a good moisture and temperature, both summer and winter.

Here we are about to put up some new cage-lines in the pelters stable.

In this stable we try to keep a tempreture around 12 Celsius.

The cages are build together two by two in a system that makes it easy to take them out for cleaning if nessesary.

At the end of each row we have a roll of plasticsheet that is pulled under the row, to make it easy and less messy to take out the manover.

We have made our own software to control the breeding. Its a Lotus Approach database.

Here we can take out all the nessesary statistics.

This is a special project.

We have put up 16 big cages - 100x60x120 cm - and in each cage lives an entire family with 4 - 5 females and one male.

We have worked with them for 1½ years now to measure the breeding results.

The project is not yet finished, put we can tell that the birthrate is better and the mortallity is lower.

But there are also different problems.

Its difficult to control the breeding - where does the offspring belong?

And we have to be carefull putting the animals together in families.

Not all animals like each other.

This is one example on the effort we make to try to develop new ways and methods to improve the chinchilla breeding.