Modern Chinchilla Fur Farming

Modern Chinchilla Fur Farming

Table of Contents:

1. The Start of the Chinchilla Industry
2. The Industry Grows
3. An Introduction to Quality Evaluation
4. Color Classes
5. Quality Levels and Basic Factor Groupings
6. Basic Color Factors; Columns 1 to 10
7. Basic Finish Factors; Columns 18 to 26
8. Basic Fur Factors; Columns 18 to 26
9. Body Factors; Columns 27 and 28
10. Chinchilla Improvement Breeding
11. How to Set Up Nucleus Colonies
12. The Super Nucleus Colony
13. Breeding for Increased Production
14. Production Study Chart
15. The Effect of Production on Cost of Pelt to Market (PTM)
16. Coat Damage Loss (CDL) in the Chinchilla
17. Recognition and Control of CDL
18. Rate of Improvement and Rate of Expansion
19- Priming Your Crop
20. Pelting
21. Pelt Handling.
22. Processing
23. Marketing Now
24. Marketing — Future Conditions
25. Chinchilla Mutations 1981
26. How to Be a Better Chinchilla Farmer
Index