RDZC Ranch

01/04/2025

First babies! Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! Our first babies of the year are here...BFFC S1 and S2 are two pure standard males born to one of our best pairings for medium standards. Excited to watch these boys grow!

12/09/2024

Very excited for the future direction of our herd! Curlies are finally showing some serious improvement!

11/21/2024

11/10/2024

We are prepping for the next show in Baker City, OR on December 7th!

Excuse me, sir? Would you mind telling the people your thoughts on rough grooming to prepare to look your best for show?

"I'm only here so I don't get fined." 😡

11/03/2024

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10/23/2024

The spooky October babies continue! BFFC R73 is a brother to last year's MCBA National Section Champion ebony male. We're hopeful this dark ebony boy will grow to be just as beautiful as his brother!

10/20/2024

So excited to announce my official partnership with my bestie! I will still have chinchillas available in Snohomish, WA and Kristy will still be providing awesome chinchillas in Illinois. Please follow our new page and if you are in Illinois or Washington...or somewhere between those two locations and looking for a chinchilla, please feel free to contact us through one of our pages!

While each of us is a seasoned breeder with several wins under our belt, we attended our first show as officially merged herds at the Wisconsin MCBA show yesterday! We showed 20 of last summer's top babies...they were just a little bit too old, but we couldn't resist showing them just once before putting them all in breeding. We are happy to report that our very large and lovable chinchillas took 11 firsts and 9 seconds. While there is always room for improvement, we are exceedingly proud of these animals that were out of show condition and only received two full weeks of show prep.

Our top pick male that received a 1st place is now named Junior and going into breeding with several phenomenal standard girls! We were also happy to claim a beautiful pink white female from B & B Chinchillas.

Our next show will be in Baker City, OR in December!

09/22/2024

Are you looking for a personable little guy that wants to be ON you all the friggin time? Look no further than...Tony. I cannot open his cage door without him clambering up onto my arm and then immediately to my shoulder. "Tony...no! I don't have time for this!" is a commonly herd phrase in the barn right now. He enjoys giving whisker kisses, getting scritches (left ear ONLY), and is positive he was a parrot in a past life that exists for shoulder perching.

Tony is available by himself or as a bonded pair with his current cage mate, Noot-Noot.

09/17/2024

This is Noot-Noot. He is a standard owner surrender looking for his new home. He is currently paired with one of our young males that is available for sale. After his quarantine was done, he called regularly to the other chinchillas gaining his name and causing me to pick a young chinchilla to be his cagemate. Noot is estimated to be between 1-3 years old, though an exact age won't be known as he was left behind in an empty apartment by his previous owners. Noot is ready to go at any time!

09/13/2024

When you're just too excited for supplement...the brain stops all working capacity and we do stupid things like getting a head stuck. I think her vigorous dust bath rolling kept the pan from seating fully in place giving her just that tiny bit of space to stick her fat head through when she heard me giving out feed and thought she was somehow missing supplement hour. Cranberry babies are always giving me such a hard time...almost as bad as Tink and her monsters. 😩

08/30/2024

If you care about chinchillas, chinchilla wellfare, and want to be a part of their future, join GCA! It's been so long since I've heard of an organization interested in furthering REAL and NECESSARY research on chinchillas aimed at increasing and promoting their wellfare. Right now, they are already starting a research project into comprehensive nutritional needs for chinchillas and future research will aim at everything from comprehensive anatomical studies to understanding behavior and vocalizations, genetics, and enrichment needs. Whether you are a pet owner, rescuer, enthusiast, or breeder...this organization centers around all things chinchilla. Take a look through the website and read the first magazine to get an idea of what your membership will include.

08/29/2024

When I'm supposed to be cleaning cages and catch a glimpse of Ruby...I start singing "Ruby-May was born in Februar-ay and now she is so chubbay!" and she usually gets snuggles because she's one that likes to tuck her head up under my chin and give me gentle grooming nibbles on my chest and neck. I love this freaking chinchilla.

So...this is just your reminder...go be annoying to your chinchillas. They won't appreciate your nonsense, but they are heckin' cute and soft and snuggly...so they really kind of need it.

08/20/2024

The inquiries keep piling up and I can't keep turning people away. My husband finally agreed that we could expand a space for owner surrender and rescue chinchillas. Unfortunately, owner surrenders are at an all time high in our area with most being 5-10 years of age. Adoption rates are incredibly low, primarily due to inflation struggles we are all being faced with and lack of interest in "boring" standard males. Due to this, I have had almost no space for intakes because most of them are simply receiving end of life care and staying here for their last years. Several of them have recently crossed the rainbow bridge, leaving a few empty cages for intakes, and with a new-ish space to house incoming animals, I am opening back up for intakes. This does not come cheaply, however. Since most of these animals are staying with me for 6-8 months and many are staying here permanently, the intake fee has to increase at this time to accommodate the extra financial burden of taking in these often neglected chinchillas (most are arriving undusted, underweight, and often behaviorally maladjusted) and to help with reimbursing us for the cost of creating a new space for intakes. Surrender fees are $100 per animal and non-negotiable. Hopefully this will open it up so that we can continue to help serve our community with a lessened financial burden on my household.

Pictured below is a current owner surrender, Swift Wind, who has been here several months and is about 5 years old. She is incredibly mellow in personality and a very sweet, healthy girl. In addition to Swift, we have a few youngish males that are about to be listed once they come out of their quarantine period.

08/17/2024

Two of our available boys!

Techno the tan white is a sweet, cuddly, and relaxed guy with some really cool markings including a cute white diamond on his head. Older siblings from the same parents are typically about 800g when full grown and big fluffy love bugs. Techno looks like he's going to be just the same.

Macho the medium ebony boy is like his name suggests...quite the macho boy. He thinks he is big and tough and he has all the posturing in his cage, but he is easy to handle, curious and full of hilarious antics.

These boys are currently paired together and would make a great pet pair!

07/26/2024

This is Ringo, a curly extra dark ebony boy that is now available! He will be ready for a new home in one week and is just the sweetest, most personable little guy. He gives a happy little hiccup/sigh when he gets kisses and snuggles and it's the cutest thing. Very calm, sweet, and just all around people loving little guy.

07/25/2024

Welp...chinchilla midwife was not on my bingo card today, but thank goodness I'm watchful. I've been waiting for babies from this national 1st place eb girl from my breeding paired to a section champion extra dark eb male from Applewood Chinchillas for a couple weeks. I noticed she didn't look right on my second check today and her nose was wet. Closer look and there was a tail hanging out. This is a first time mom and I could feel the other babies still kicking and wiggling and needed to get breech baby out (alive or dead) so mom's other babies have a chance at getting out safely. We worked together on and off for about 30 minutes with breaks for her to walk/run around and hopefully help with baby position adjustment and contractions. Finally, on our fourth attempt I was able to get one of the back legs out with the tail and mom gave some mighty big pushes to deliver a very large dark ebony girl with, unfortunately, only a fraction of her tail remaining. I thought for sure she hadn't survived the difficult process of getting her out, but she came out wiggling and feisty. A little bit of stimulation had her angrily swearing at me for assisting her rough entry into the world and now she is angry squeaking at a tired, but still laboring mom. I guess my day is now dedicated to ensuring the safe arrival of the rest of this girl's babies. She has one or two more, but #1 is doing great so far and hearing her squeaks is relieving music to my ears.