| About Raising
Chinchillas
- The chinchilla is a rodent from the
Northern Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and southern Peru. That area has
been wild until late last century when the indiscriminate
manhunt ended with the wild species.
- Today, this small species Argentina exists thanks to the emergence
of breeders that allows them to reproduce in captivity. Thanks to intensive
breeding and genetic improvement, farmed skins from nowadays are so different
from the wild old's. If we compare, we would believe that we are
looking at two different species.
- Chinchilla fur is the most valued in the world for the fur market.
It is the lightest, silky, thick and smooth. In our country, the
industry appears in the early 60's and since that time, it has had a
remarkable growth.
- Today in 2016, Argentina has become a world leader in this export
industry. While growth has been important from the beginning, we can
say that in 10 years (1995-2005) the global economic
situation has provided so favorable for the expansion of this
industry that became even more attractive circumstances.
- Example: As a result of new environmental currents that caused the
prohibition of indiscriminate hunting of wild animals in danger of
extinction, furriers stopped working with the skins and turned all
their purchases towards farmed fur bearers. Within the scope of
exotic and expensive furs, chinchilla was head to head
with white polar
bear and the Marta Sibelina (among others). Polar Bear skins were no
longer produced in order to protect endangered species
meanwhile the Marta Sibelina suffered a
terrible falling of prices when Russia entered the capitalist world,
it
flooded the market with these skins. The chinchilla became the most
coveted and expensive skin from the exotics.
- Since 1996 all fashion houses with highest prestige in the finished fur
garments, ended the parades with chinchilla fur. During the period
1994-1996 US lead the world production followed by Canada, Germany and Argentina. As
for quality, US was the undisputed leader followed by Canada,
Argentina and Germany.
- By 1996-1998 Germany distracts an enormous amount of their
production of skins to the market or pets that makes
a boom in Western Europe. In Canada and the US production
costs got notoriously
expensive due to the high cost of labor, the value
of cereals and tannery costs (in Argentina tanning a skin costs
$ s 1.5 dollars meanwhile in developed countries like Denmark or Germany costs
go up
between $ 8 and $ s s 9 each despite being of equal quality.
- The rising prices of skins produced by the increase in demand was
accompanied unfortunately in those countries because a substantial
increase in production cost. Producing a skin in Argentina in 1998
had an estimated cost of u $ s 10 per skin, the 2000's u $ s 14 and in 2007 u $ s 7 while in the US rose to $ s 24 and Canada au $ s
22. This caused the growth of the industry in South America (with
Argentina at the top) to be much higher than in the Nordic countries.
- For 2016 all analysts on the subject presented Argentina as one
of the world's largest producers of chinchilla fur with a production
of around 50,000 skins per year. Along with Argentina and Brazil
(with a rapid growth too) are at the head of world production Eastern
European countries such as Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland and
Hungary. None of these cases(not even Brazil) achieved the quality
we have in Argentina. However, there is top quality in
countries like US , Canada, Finland etc. etc.
-Global demand for these skins of good quality is so big and with so small offer that those who have quality skins of chinchillas
have a heritage of immense value.
-As for quality, it can be said that in the year 2007, Argentina,
with Chinchillas Eldorado at the head, has several of the best
cabins in the world, therefore the leadership is full of both
quantity and quality.
-Today Argentina, counting the serious breeders who work with
quality, grouped and protected by A.A.C.Ch (Argentina Chinchillas
Breeders Association) exported all domestic production. The economic movement of
this project can be summarized as follows. Minimum care, low
maintenance costs, without great infrastructure and facilities
expenses, no employees, soaring sales value of the final product
(the skin) for exporting with a fully insured international market.
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Low
production costs: A chinchilla eats 25 grams of feed,
a handful of alfalfa and water. It works with polygamous
systems families in which a male serves 4
or 5 females. Gestation is 111 days and they have 4
children per year in two different parities. |
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Male
and female. It works with polygamous families. The
male has 4 or 5 females for him. The cages are
interconnected through the tunnel or the male corridor.
He moves around and goes down to eat food from their
females or to cover them. There is no need to join them for sex,
they do it alone when they are in heat. |
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A
chinchilla feeder (the plate, 15 cm x 6 cm) with the daily
ration of pellets (balanced pressings cereals are
achieved throughout the country, simile to rabbit), oat, germ and bran, as reinforcement (three times per
week) .
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Minimum of care: A person can serve 50 animals with
half an hour daily work and up to 800 in 8 hours. |
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Frame of
30 cages (six families of a male and 5 female).Occupies
a space of 1,75mts long, 55cm deep and 2.10 meters high. |
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Fluid financial move: At 6 months, both the male
and the female are able to procreate, at 11 months
of age they can be sacrificed (the surplus males).
Remember you require only 25% of males who were
born, the rest will be sold its production).
ARMOTIZATION:
A Chinchilla can live up to 20 years, procreate
until 12 but it works commercially for 7 or 8 years.
Then your skin has a high residual value. - Agile
marketing system without monopolies: The skins are
sold unitarily (thus the producer sells 1, 10, 100
or 1000), and its value depends entirely on the
individual quality of each. We buy live production
or leather since 1964, with a written contract
(single cabin Argentina) given at the time of taking
the animals. |
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The breeder facilities with 3000
skins ready to
be sold. |
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The final product
(skin quality)
has a demand much higher than the global supply. (Which
ensures a good business for many years) It's a
venture that does not require constant investment as
working capital (wombs) are increasing year to year |
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No veterinary assistance is needed; no pests or
epidemics. The few diseases that can affect are well
known and today, who work with preventive methods,
they can say that there are almost no diseases. |
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No need to make large investments in facilities,
local or cages. (You can start in a room, a basement,
a garage or a shed 3 x 3 m. Where you can
accommodate up to 250 animals). The cages are
individual, stackable and take up very little space
(35cm x 35cm x 55cm). The important thing is that
the place is closed, well ventilated and isolated
from the outside temperature. This is why there are
many
chinchillas breeders anywhere in the country, whether in the
cold of Tierra del Fuego, in the heat of Misiones,
in the humidity of the capital or up the mountains in
Mendoza. The cages can be manufactured by the
breeder at very low prices. Obviously if you want
you can purchase the cages manufactured
and standardized. |
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Partial view of a room of 4 x 4 meters with 400
chinchillas. |
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Partial view of a room of 5 x 8 meters with 800
chinchillas. |
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Mailto: eldorado@chinchilla.com.ar
Calle Venezuela
3956 |
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(1211) Capital Federal |
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Buenos Aires - República Argentina |
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Tel/fax: (54-11) 4981-0034 |
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