Parrots and Chinchillas

[MyCasso]

Hello all,

I have a friend who keeps recently moved her parrots into a room with her chinchillas. This doesn't seem like a good idea to me, because of the dust. Any thoughts? If it's not a good idea, does anyone have a link to an article that might state that? (She is not the kind of person who would believe it just because I said so, she would need outside proof)

Thanks for the help!!

[Chicklette]

I have SIX chinchillas, lol. It depends on how many chinchillas she has. They are VERY dusty animals, with the bedding, the dust baths, the hay ext. If possible there should be some distance between them and when they get a dust bath they should be placed in another room. I have a chin room just for them. I have one chinchilla in the same room as my parrots. They are all in with me. As long as they don’t come into contact with each others poop it should be fine. But six is just too many for parrots to handle since of their sensitive respitory systems.

When I clean cages I never use the same bucket of water. The parrots have their own bucket and the chins have their own bucket of water. Everything is separate including the sponges I use. Im paranoid but that’s just me.

How many chinchillas does she have? How many cages?

[MyCasso]

She has three chinchillas in two cages. She uses the pellet type bedding.

[Chicklette]

Well I think that would be fine. I just would separate them in another room when she gives them a dust bath and keep them as far away from the parrots as possible and no contact with poop. Different sponges and buckets for cleaning also. They also shouldn’t play together.

I just have way to many chins to keep them in the same room as my parrots. Way to dusty and I use pine bedding but the pellets are much better and produce less dust. The pellet type of bedding is expensive that is why I don't buy that kind, I use aspen. WAY cheaper for me. I use to much bedding to buy the more expensive stuff.