At the beginning of my chinchilla-owner and -breeder-carreer I red a lot of books about chinchillas to learn more about them. The best books are listed here:

Chinchillas
Maike Röder-Thiede
Gräfe und Unzer Verlag
ISBN 3-7742-3154-0
Price 7,50 €
There are a lot of informations about chins, which are
very useful for beginners.
It´s written in simple words and tells about
everything you have to know
Unser Chinchilla
Michael Kürschner
kosmos Verlag
ISBN 3-440-06351-8
Price 5,90 €
Adviser from the beginning on. With tips
for housing, taking care, feeding and a
lot more things about breeding chinchillas
Chinchilla-Zucht
für jeden verständlich gemacht
Egon Mößlacher
Landbuch Verlag
ISBN 3-7842-0474-0
Price 39,80 DM
If you want to breed chinchillas (for hobby
or for commercial) it is a very valuable
adviser.It´s telling about the different
ways of breedingand their advantages
and disadvantages.It gives also lots of
informations about taking care of the
chinchillas and about diseases
Chinchilla - Heimtier und Patient
Guido Schweigart
Gustav Fischer Verlag
ISBN 3-432-28771-2
Price 29,95 €
A book about the chinchilla and its
diseases, written from a very good
veterinarian
Das Chinchilla-Handbuch
Sabine Cremer
Print on demand bei Online-
Buchhändlern
ISBN 3-89811-786-3
Price 7,57 €
A book about chinchillas, about building
cages and many more things
Homepage: www.chinchilla-handbuch.de
Das große Chinchilla-Handbuch
Sabine Cremer
Print on demand bei Online-
Buchhändlern
ISBN 3-83113-634-3
Price 14,90 €
About: Origin, wild chinchillas,
buying chins and cages, nutrition, diseases,
colors and breeding


If you know a good book about chinchillas (in english as well), which gives interested people good informations then just send me an e-mail and I will list it here!!!

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