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So I guess people have heard this story before. Came home from work yesterday and there was a little baby kit on the top floor of the chin's cage! He is very cute, and has come from a pair we got a year and a half ago that were unwanted pets for somone else. We estimate their age to be around 3 now and there has never been any kits before in their lifetime from what I gather.
Ok I'l ltry to make this brief but I have come here as I get a lot of conflicting advice from different people on what should happen now. Mother and baby are doing fine and after speaking to a family member who has an old pair who have had a few litters in their life, I was told she has never removed the male from the cage and never had an occurence of back breeding. alltogehter this elderly couple have had around 6 litters in their lives. this I though sounded about right if mine are about 3. so I rearranged the 3 floor cage to put their sleep box (litterally small cardboard boxes we collect) to the bottom floor, put some mattign down to stop baby getting his feet caught and left them to it as I didn't want to disturb them last night. later on I had beensat watching them play when max was getting a little too close to lucy. I managed to split them up as he went to mount her. I DON'T THINK he did the deed so to speak but I decided to split them after that for at least a month. he has the top two layers and lucy and the baby have the bottom. sorry I could have made this post shorter 
basically as there is only one kit we don't want to send him anywhere to live on his own, and would like to keep the 3 in one large cage. I know two males and one female would be a disaster, but if both males were castrated would this solve the territorial mating "arguments" that would occur or do we have to sadly find a home for the baby? also how bad is the operation for castration? is it likeley to have complications? these are much loved members of our family and I don't wish to cause them any harm but also I know how unfair it is to bring many baby chinchillas into the worlds when so many are neding homes. some advice would be most appreciated!
thanks if you managed to read all that! lookign forward to your suggestions 
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| Yes we knew they were male and female when we got them, they were unwanted pets who had never bred before. they had been bought to breed actually and I got the impression that no babies made the owner lose interrest. Our main experience on chinchillas before this was my wife's cousin who as I said has had a male and female for 13-14 years who have in total had only a small ammount of kits. We had intended that we would be keeping hold of any babies, and have had a couple of long standing offers of good homes for any babies. we are not interrested in proffiting from them so yes as I see your point, we had the nowledge they would probably breed at some point. the only problem came as I was doing further research and got conflicting advice on keeping more than one male with females. Thankfully now I have had chance to have a propper look at the kit and handle it, it may be a girl which would be great being a novice on sexing kits we'll know better when baby Tamer is older, but it seems we may have gotten away with only having to get max done to live with his girlies.
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