<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504213703443814077</id><updated>2011-08-16T15:52:04.594-07:00</updated><title type='text'>BLUE DIAMOND CHINCHILLA-New chinchilla color from "SANTIAGO"</title><subtitle type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src="http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/5838/bluelogotc7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;
&lt;center&gt;"Santiago" chinchilla's is the founder and breeder of the new "BLUE DIAMOND" Mutation - ©2008 "Santiago"&lt;/center&gt;</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Moderator</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504213703443814077.post-3164039110530646806</id><published>2008-09-19T09:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T07:38:22.065-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The "BLUE DIAMOND"Chinchilla</title><content type='html'>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/06/santiago-blue-diamond.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8325/flagdutchsmalltu2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1179/germanyflagsmallqt9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s800/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamondchinchilla.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8030/englishflagsmallpb7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216677072612348930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SGVcKIz71AI/AAAAAAAAASE/g-CvsR8ucFY/s400/BLD.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE BLUE DIAMOND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Bert and Coby Bouwens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinchillafarm &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;“SANTIAGO’&lt;br /&gt;Since 1960&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost everybody, who keeps and/or breeds chinchillas, has heard about the colour ‘Blue Diamond’.&lt;br /&gt;There are also a lot of rumours about how to create this colour on websites and chat-boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow, this colour became more and more popular and many people have asked us to tell them how they can breed this colour as well.&lt;br /&gt;This article is also meant for those, who think it’s very easy to breed a Blue Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;If that is the case: Where are they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our first Blue Diamond, which is still alive, was born at the breeding farm of Ivan Ongley in South England in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan and we are friends for more than 15 years and during this period we have exchanged many chinchillas.&lt;br /&gt;The parents of this Blue Diamond were standard carrier for Afr. Violet. The ancestors of these parents have been imported from the U.S.A. many years before. With these animals we bred for 12 till 15 generations without anything unusual occurred. The only exception was that we saw some very beautiful Afr. Violets youngsters being born.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan had a breeding group of four breeding females, all of them carrier for Violet together with an Afr. Violet male. He lost this male trough illness and the only animal he had left to put together with these females was a brother. This was a normal Standard carrier for Violet. Ivan gave this animal the name: Diamond, this because his fur did have the sparkle of cut diamonds. All four females became pregnant and youngsters were born with a very strange though beautiful colour . Also German Violet and recessive Beige were born.&lt;br /&gt;The same year (2001), at our breeding farm a very light in colour ‘Afr. Violet’ was born. The father was a Beige Ultra Violet and the mother a Beige Violet.&lt;br /&gt;A few weeks after the birth of our youngster, Ivan came over to bring us a visit and he saw our ‘light Afr. Violet’. He was very surprised and told us, that we have bred the same colour as he did with the four females and Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;We started to look back into the pedigrees and we came to the conclusion, that both of our animals did have the same ancestors.&lt;br /&gt;That same year Ivan got a disease at his breeding-stock and a large part of his herd died. He was very afraid to loose his ‘special animal’ and all the carriers so he decided to bring over to our farm a part of this breeding line and also this ‘special animal’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382251915483378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DWVsGPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/yqkv3kNkjCg/s400/9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WERE DOES THE NAME “BLUE DIAMOND” COME FROM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although we knew you only can speak about a new colour if you have bred several animals in the same colour, the three of us decided to give it a name.&lt;br /&gt;It was not thát difficult.&lt;br /&gt;The colour of the animals was so ice blue and as the father was called Diamond. So Coby devised the name : “Blue Diamond”. Both Bert and Ivan agreed.&lt;br /&gt;The Blue Diamond Ivan brought over from England did get the name Diamond as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW WE BRED MORE BLUE DIAMONDS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately the first Blue Diamond which was born at our breeding-stock didn’t make it, but we still had some animals, which were related to this bloodline.&lt;br /&gt;So at that moment we only had 1 Blue Diamond and a few animals of which we hoped/expected to be carriers for this colour.&lt;br /&gt;The first year we put the best females, which were possible carriers, in breeding with the Blue Diamond male.&lt;br /&gt;Out of these animals were born: Standards, Sapphires, Afr.Violets, 2 Blue Diamonds ( males) and an animal, which was very dark Violet. We assumed it was a Deutsch Violet ( German Violet).&lt;br /&gt;At the same time youngsters were born out of a Sapphire male, that came from the same line as the Blue Diamond . The females coming out of this father we put in breeding with one of the Blue Diamonds, coming out of Diamond, when they were at the age of 10 months.&lt;br /&gt;The other young Blue Diamond went back to England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan and we still exchange animals. We try to keep the original bloodline as pure as possible. Only in the beginning we used some strong, big and of a good quality Afr. Violet females to get some new blood in the Blue Diamond line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do know that people in America have tried to breed a new colour. Perhaps they tried to breed Violet Sapphires. But after 15 years of trying, they stopped because the animals died at an age of a few years. We think, the course was teeth problems.&lt;br /&gt;The herd we have built up is free of teeth problems until now.&lt;br /&gt;The animals are very fruitful and bring up their youngsters very well.&lt;br /&gt;The Sapphires born out of these bloodlines do have a normal character and are of a much better quality, than normal Sapphires.&lt;br /&gt;Also the very dark Violets, born out of it are healthy.&lt;br /&gt;Bert has asked a German breeder, if he knew where the Deutsch Violett (German Violet) does come from original. This breeder told him, that the roots of this colour are in England. So perhaps there is some kind of relationship between these colours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2003 Nils Sörig from Denmark started to breed the Blue Diamond as well.&lt;br /&gt;He got from us Sapphires, Afr. Violets and carriers for Blue Diamond. Only he did not keep the herd pure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All we can say is that we didn’t want to create a new colour on purpose. It was a coincidence, that the ‘Blue Diamond’ was born.&lt;br /&gt;Probably it all started with the experiments of the American breeders. And after they had stopped trying to get strong Violet Sapphires, they sold the carriers to Europe.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Ongley bought several of those and after 15 generations of breeding and only selecting the best Violets and Beige Violets, this colour was the ultimate result. He was only trying to get the best Afr. Violets. Also by exchanging animals with us, both of our breeding-stocks got the carriers for this new colour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the moment we do have 8 Blue Diamond breeding males. Most of them do have 9 females, a few do have 5 females. Also we do have 5 Sapphire Blue Diamond carrier breeding males, which already have proved to produce 100% Blue Diamond carriers.&lt;br /&gt;We always make a careful selection of quality and vitality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already we have sold several Blue Diamonds and carriers all over Europe and Russia.&lt;br /&gt;Only the Blue Diamond coming out of our lines can be called ‘Blue Diamond’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mixtures of Violets with Sapphires are called: Violet Sapphires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382230528848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CGqt8pI/AAAAAAAAAJg/lxDpn1-0uxs/s400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382241125698482" style="DISPLAY: block; 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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1179/germanyflagsmallqt9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s800/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamondchinchilla.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8030/englishflagsmallpb7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216677072612348930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SGVcKIz71AI/AAAAAAAAASE/g-CvsR8ucFY/s400/BLD.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;”SANTIAGO” – Grundare och uppfödare av Blue Diamond.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nästan alla som har och - eller avlar på chinchillor, har hört talas om färgen Blue Diamond. Det finns också många rykten om hur man ”tillverkar” denna färg, på webbsidor mm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I alla fall, denna färg har blivit mycket populär och många har bett oss berätta hur dom ska avla för att få fram den. Denna artikel är också avsedd för dom som tror att det är lätt att avla Blue Diamond. Om fallet så vore : ”Var är dom?”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vår första Blue Diamond, som fortfarande lever, föddes på Ivan Ongley´s avelsfarm i södra England år 2001. Vi har vart vänner med Ivan i över 15år och under denna period har vi bytt många chinchillor med varandra. Föräldrarna till våra Blue Diamond var standard violettbärare. Släktingar till dessa importerades från USA flera år tidigare. Med dessa djur avlade vi i 12 – 15 generationer utan att något ovanligt hände. Det enda undantaget var att vi fick se väldigt vackra violetta bebisar födas.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan hade en avelsgrupp på fyra avelshonor, alla violettbärare , ihop med en violett hane. Denna hane förlorades senare pga sjukdom, och det enda djur han hade kvar att sätta med dessa honor var en bror. Detta var en vanlig standard violett bärare. Ivan gav detta djuret namnet: Diamond, pga hans päls, som gnistrade som brutna diamanter. Alla fyra honorna blev dräktiga och ungar föddes med en väldigt konstig men vacker färg. Även violetta och recessivt Beige´a föddes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Samma år ( 2001 ) , på våran farm, föddes en väldigt ljus violett unge. Pappan var ”Beige Ultra Violet” och mamman ”Beige Violet”.&lt;br /&gt;Ett par veckor efter att ungen fötts kom Ivan över på besök och fick se denna unge. Han blev väldigt förvånad och berättade för oss at han hade fått fram samma färg med sina 4 honor och Diamond. Vi började titta i stamtavlorna och kom fram till att bådas djur hade samma släktingar längre bak.&lt;br /&gt;Det året fick Ivan sjukdom i sin avelsflock och en stor del av dom dog. Han var rädd för att förlora sitt ”speciella djur” och alla bärare. Så han bestämde sig för att föra över dom till oss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;VART KOMMER NAMNET BLUE DIAMOND IFRÅN?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Även om vi visste att man bara kan tala om en ny färg då man har avlat fram ett flertal av färgen , så bestämde vi tre oss för att namnge den.&lt;br /&gt;Det var inte så svårt. Färgen var så isblå och pappan hette Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;Coby föreslog ”Blue Diamond”. Både Bert och Ivan höll med. Den Blue Diamond som Ivan tog över från England fick också namnet Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HUR VI AVLAR MER BLUE DIAMOND`S.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olyckligtvis så klarade sej inte den första Blue Diamond´ en ,från vår avelsflock, sig. Men vi hade fortfarande kvar en del släktingar med samma blodslinjer. Just då hade vi bara en Blue Diamond och ett par djur som vi hoppades/förväntade oss skulle bli bärare för denna färg.&lt;br /&gt;Det första året satte vi den bästa honan, som var troligtvis bärare, i avel med Blue Diamond hanen. Från dessa föddes det: standard´s, safirer, African violets, 2 Blue Diamonds (hanar) och ett djur som var väldigt mörk violett. Vi antog att det var en ”Deutsch Violet” ( German Violet).&lt;br /&gt;Samtidigt föddes det ungar efter Safir hanen, som kom från samma blodslinjer som Blue Diamond´en .Honorna efter denna pappan satte vi i avel med en av de två Blue Diamond hanarna, som kom från Blue Diamond, då de var 10 månader. Den andra Blue Diamond hanen flyttade till England.&lt;br /&gt;Vi utbyter fortfarande djur med Ivan. Vi försöker att bevara den ursprungliga blodslinjen så ren som möjligt. Endast i början använde vi en del stora, strarka och högkvalitativa , (African) violetta honor. Detta gjorde vi för att få in nytt blod i Blue Diamond linjen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi vet att folk i USA har försökt att avla en ny färg. Kanske de provade att avla fram Violett-Safirer. Men efter 15 års försök slutade de pga att djuren dog vid en ung ålder. Vi tror att det berodde på tandproblem.&lt;br /&gt;Hittills är våran uppbyggda avelsflock fri från tandproblem. Djuren är väldigt fruktsamma och tar bra hand om sina ungar. De safirer som föds efter dessa blodslinjer har normal karaktär och är av mycket bättre kvalite´ än vanliga safirer. Även de mörka violetta från dessa linjer är friska.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bert har frågat en Tysk uppfödare om han visste var ”German Violet´s ” kommer från ,ifrån första början. Uppfödaren berättade att rötterna till denna färg finns i England. Så kanske det finns en länk mellan dessa färger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;År 2003 började Nils Sörig, från Danmark, att avla Blue Diamond också. Han köpte safirer, African Violets, och Blue Diamond bärare ifrån oss. Men han behöll inte flocken ren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Det vi vill säga är att det inte var vår mening att skapa denna färg. Det var en ren tillfällighet att Blue Diamond föddes.&lt;br /&gt;Troligtvis startade allt med experimenten ifrån de Amerikanska uppfödarna. Och då de slutade att försöka få fram starka violett-safirer, så såldes djuren till Europa. Ivan Ongley köpte flera av dessa. Efter 15 generationers avlande och då genom att endast välja de bästa violetta och beige –violetta så blev denna färg det ultimata resultatet. Han försökte bara få bra African Violets. Genom att byta djur, med oss, fick bådas avelsflock bärare för denna nya färg.&lt;br /&gt;För tillfället har vi 8 Blue Diamond avelshanar. De flesta av dom har 9 avelshonor men en del har 5 honor. Vi har också 5 Safir Blue Diamond bärare (hanar) som redan har bevisat att de kan producera 100%-iga Blue Diamond bärare.&lt;br /&gt;Vi gör alltid noga val av kvalite´ och livskraftighet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi har redan sålt flera Blue Diamond´s och bärare över hela Europa och Ryssland. Endast de Blue Diamond´s som kommer från våra linjer kan bli kallade Blue Diamond´s.&lt;br /&gt;Mix med violett och safirer kallas : violett-safir.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;”The Blue Diamond”&lt;br /&gt;by Bert &amp;amp; Coby Bouwens, Chinchilla farm ”Santiago”, since 1960.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Översatt av Maria R Johansson.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382230528848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CGqt8pI/AAAAAAAAAJg/lxDpn1-0uxs/s400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382241125698482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-Q4Cc4xI/AAAAAAAAAI4/ctkXR0Hpl6E/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381392560104370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-RU_Zo7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/uwwshakzwh4/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381402198140658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-R45SZvI/AAAAAAAAAJI/Byk5y8RPZ3E/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381404444857458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SBQ8lHI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/VVkQcD-HSMw/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381411551128434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SbvNq3I/AAAAAAAAAJY/1XbonagjM2M/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8504213703443814077-2884413303380010105?l=bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/2884413303380010105'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/2884413303380010105'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html' title='”The Blue Diamond” (Swedish)'/><author><name>Moderator</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s72-c/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504213703443814077.post-6243264631234934687</id><published>2008-06-18T11:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T08:07:45.751-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The "Blue Diamond" Chinchilla</title><content type='html'>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/06/santiago-blue-diamond.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8325/flagdutchsmalltu2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1179/germanyflagsmallqt9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s800/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamondchinchilla.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8030/englishflagsmallpb7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5216677072612348930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SGVcKIz71AI/AAAAAAAAASE/g-CvsR8ucFY/s400/BLD.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;THE BLUE DIAMOND&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Bert and Coby Bouwens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinchillafarm &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;“SANTIAGO’&lt;br /&gt;Since 1960&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Almost everybody, who keeps and/or breeds chinchillas, has heard about the colour ‘Blue Diamond’.&lt;br /&gt;There are also a lot of rumours about how to create this colour on websites and chat-boxes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow, this colour became more and more popular and many people have asked us to tell them how they can breed this colour as well.&lt;br /&gt;This article is also meant for those, who think it’s very easy to breed a Blue Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;If that is the case: Where are they?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our first Blue Diamond, which is still alive, was born at the breeding farm of Ivan Ongley in South England in 2001.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan and we are friends for more than 15 years and during this period we have exchanged many chinchillas.&lt;br /&gt;The parents of this Blue Diamond were standard carrier for Afr. Violet. The ancestors of these parents have been imported from the U.S.A. many years before. With these animals we bred for 12 till 15 generations without anything unusual occurred. The only exception was that we saw some very beautiful Afr. Violets youngsters being born.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan had a breeding group of four breeding females, all of them carrier for Violet together with an Afr. Violet male. He lost this male trough illness and the only animal he had left to put together with these females was a brother. This was a normal Standard carrier for Violet. Ivan gave this animal the name: Diamond, this because his fur did have the sparkle of cut diamonds. All four females became pregnant and youngsters were born with a very strange though beautiful colour . Also German Violet and recessive Beige were born.&lt;br /&gt;The same year (2001), at our breeding farm a very light in colour ‘Afr. Violet’ was born. The father was a Beige Ultra Violet and the mother a Beige Violet.&lt;br /&gt;A few weeks after the birth of our youngster, Ivan came over to bring us a visit and he saw our ‘light Afr. Violet’. He was very surprised and told us, that we have bred the same colour as he did with the four females and Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;We started to look back into the pedigrees and we came to the conclusion, that both of our animals did have the same ancestors.&lt;br /&gt;That same year Ivan got a disease at his breeding-stock and a large part of his herd died. He was very afraid to loose his ‘special animal’ and all the carriers so he decided to bring over to our farm a part of this breeding line and also this ‘special animal’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382251915483378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DWVsGPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/yqkv3kNkjCg/s400/9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WERE DOES THE NAME “BLUE DIAMOND” COME FROM?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although we knew you only can speak about a new colour if you have bred several animals in the same colour, the three of us decided to give it a name.&lt;br /&gt;It was not thát difficult.&lt;br /&gt;The colour of the animals was so ice blue and as the father was called Diamond. So Coby devised the name : “Blue Diamond”. Both Bert and Ivan agreed.&lt;br /&gt;The Blue Diamond Ivan brought over from England did get the name Diamond as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOW WE BRED MORE BLUE DIAMONDS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately the first Blue Diamond which was born at our breeding-stock didn’t make it, but we still had some animals, which were related to this bloodline.&lt;br /&gt;So at that moment we only had 1 Blue Diamond and a few animals of which we hoped/expected to be carriers for this colour.&lt;br /&gt;The first year we put the best females, which were possible carriers, in breeding with the Blue Diamond male.&lt;br /&gt;Out of these animals were born: Standards, Sapphires, Afr.Violets, 2 Blue Diamonds ( males) and an animal, which was very dark Violet. We assumed it was a Deutsch Violet ( German Violet).&lt;br /&gt;At the same time youngsters were born out of a Sapphire male, that came from the same line as the Blue Diamond . The females coming out of this father we put in breeding with one of the Blue Diamonds, coming out of Diamond, when they were at the age of 10 months.&lt;br /&gt;The other young Blue Diamond went back to England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan and we still exchange animals. We try to keep the original bloodline as pure as possible. Only in the beginning we used some strong, big and of a good quality Afr. Violet females to get some new blood in the Blue Diamond line.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We do know that people in America have tried to breed a new colour. Perhaps they tried to breed Violet Sapphires. But after 15 years of trying, they stopped because the animals died at an age of a few years. We think, the course was teeth problems.&lt;br /&gt;The herd we have built up is free of teeth problems until now.&lt;br /&gt;The animals are very fruitful and bring up their youngsters very well.&lt;br /&gt;The Sapphires born out of these bloodlines do have a normal character and are of a much better quality, than normal Sapphires.&lt;br /&gt;Also the very dark Violets, born out of it are healthy.&lt;br /&gt;Bert has asked a German breeder, if he knew where the Deutsch Violett (German Violet) does come from original. This breeder told him, that the roots of this colour are in England. So perhaps there is some kind of relationship between these colours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 2003 Nils Sörig from Denmark started to breed the Blue Diamond as well.&lt;br /&gt;He got from us Sapphires, Afr. Violets and carriers for Blue Diamond. Only he did not keep the herd pure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All we can say is that we didn’t want to create a new colour on purpose. It was a coincidence, that the ‘Blue Diamond’ was born.&lt;br /&gt;Probably it all started with the experiments of the American breeders. And after they had stopped trying to get strong Violet Sapphires, they sold the carriers to Europe.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Ongley bought several of those and after 15 generations of breeding and only selecting the best Violets and Beige Violets, this colour was the ultimate result. He was only trying to get the best Afr. Violets. Also by exchanging animals with us, both of our breeding-stocks got the carriers for this new colour.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the moment we do have 8 Blue Diamond breeding males. Most of them do have 9 females, a few do have 5 females. Also we do have 5 Sapphire Blue Diamond carrier breeding males, which already have proved to produce 100% Blue Diamond carriers.&lt;br /&gt;We always make a careful selection of quality and vitality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Already we have sold several Blue Diamonds and carriers all over Europe and Russia.&lt;br /&gt;Only the Blue Diamond coming out of our lines can be called ‘Blue Diamond’.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mixtures of Violets with Sapphires are called: Violet Sapphires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382230528848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CGqt8pI/AAAAAAAAAJg/lxDpn1-0uxs/s400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382241125698482" style="DISPLAY: block; 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MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-Q4Cc4xI/AAAAAAAAAI4/ctkXR0Hpl6E/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381392560104370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-RU_Zo7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/uwwshakzwh4/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381402198140658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-R45SZvI/AAAAAAAAAJI/Byk5y8RPZ3E/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381404444857458" style="DISPLAY: block; 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Chinchilla'/><author><name>Moderator</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s72-c/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504213703443814077.post-5122260609817817066</id><published>2008-06-10T14:42:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T08:08:06.718-07:00</updated><title type='text'>"Santiago" Blue Diamond</title><content type='html'>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/06/santiago-blue-diamond.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8325/flagdutchsmalltu2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1179/germanyflagsmallqt9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s800/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamondchinchilla.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8030/englishflagsmallpb7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DE BLUE DIAMOND&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Door Bert en Coby Bouwens&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinchillafarm &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:lucida grande;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;“SANTIAGO”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Since 1960&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bijna iedereen, die chinchilla’s bezit en/of ermee fokt, heeft van de kleur ‘Blue Diamond’ gehoord.&lt;br /&gt;Ook doen er vele geruchten op websites en chat-boxen de ronde over hoe deze kleur verkregen kan worden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In ieder geval is deze kleur steeds populairder geworden en veel mensen hebben ons gevraagd hoe zij deze kleur zelf kunnen fokken.&lt;br /&gt;Dit artikel is óók bestemd voor diegenen, die zeggen, dat het zo gemakkelijk is een Blue Diamond te fokken. Als dat het geval is. Waar zijn dan al die Blue Diamonds?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Onze eerste Blue Diamond, die nog steeds in leven is, is in 2001 bij Ivan Ongley in Zuid Engeland geboren.&lt;br /&gt;Wij zijn al meer dan 15 jaar bevriend met Ivan en gedurende deze periode hebben we veel chinchilla’s met elkaar geruild.&lt;br /&gt;De ouders van deze Blue Diamond waren standaard drager voor Afr. Violet. De voorouders van deze dieren waren vele jaren ervoor geïmporteerd vanuit de U.S.A. Met deze dieren hebben we 12 tot 15 generaties gefokt zonder dat er iets abnormaals gebeurde. Het enige verschil was, dat er soms erg mooie Afr. Violets geboren werden.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan had een fokgroep van vier fokvrouwtjes, allen standaard drager voor violet, samen met een afr. Violet bokje. Dit bokje is door ziekte overleden en het enige wat hij nog over had om bij de vrouwtjes te zetten, was een broertje. Dit was een normale standaard drager voor Violet. Ivan gaf dit dier de naam ‘Diamond’ , omdat zijn vacht een vreemde schittering gaf zoals bij geslepen diamanten. Alle vier de vrouwtjes werden zwanger en er werden jongen geboren met een erg vreemde, doch mooie kleur.Ook Duits Violet en recessieve Beige&lt;br /&gt;Dat zelfde jaar ( 2001) werd er op onze farm een erg lichtgekleurde ‘Afr. Violet’ geboren. De vader hiervan was een Beige Ultra Violet en de moeder een Beige Violet.&lt;br /&gt;Een paar weken na de geboorte bracht Ivan ons een bezoek en hij zag onze ‘Afr. Violet’. Hij was erg verbaasd en vertelde ons, dat wij dezelfde kleur gefokt hadden als hij met de vier vrouwtjes en Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;We zijn de stambomen gaan nazoeken en kwamen tot de conclusie, dat zowel onze dieren als die van Ivan dezelfde voorouders hadden.&lt;br /&gt;Later in het jaar kreeg Ivan een ziekte in zijn farm en een groot aantal van zijn fokdieren stierf. Hij was erg bang om ook ‘zijn speciale kleur’ te verliezen en besloot een gedeelte van deze fokgroep naar ons te brengen.Een bokje met deze aparte kleur en drager vrouwtjes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382251915483378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DWVsGPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/yqkv3kNkjCg/s400/9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;WAAR KOMT DE NAAM “ BLUE DIAMOND’ VANDAAN?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hoewel we wisten, dat je alleen van een nieuwe kleur kan spreken, als je meerdere dieren in deze kleur hebt, besloten wij drieën het toch een naam te geven.&lt;br /&gt;Het was niet zó moeilijk.&lt;br /&gt;De kleur van de chinchilla’s was zó IJsblauw en de vader had de naam Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;Coby verzon vervolgens de naam voor deze nieuwe kleur. Het werd:&lt;br /&gt;“Blue Diamond” en Bert en Ivan gingen hiermee accoord.&lt;br /&gt;De Blue Diamond, die Ivan vanuit Engeland had meegenomen kreeg ook de naam “Diamond”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HOE WE MEER BLUE DIAMONDS HEBBEN GEFOKT.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jammer genoeg heeft de eerste Blue Diamond, die op onze farm geboren was het niet gehaald, maar we hadden nog enkele andere dieren, die uit dezelfde bloedlijn kwamen.&lt;br /&gt;Dus, op dat moment hadden we maar 1 Blue Diamond en enkele dieren, waarvan we verwachtten en hoopten, dat ze dragers waren.&lt;br /&gt;Het eerste jaar hebben we de beste vrouwtjes, die mogelijk drager waren, in de fok gezet bij het Blue Diamond mannetje.&lt;br /&gt;Uit deze dieren werden geboren: Standaards, Saffieren, Afr. Violetten, 2 Blue Diamonds ( mannetjes) en een dier dat erg donker Violet was. Wij namen aan, dat het een Duits Violet ( German Violet) was.&lt;br /&gt;Dezelfde periode werden er jongen geboren uit een Saffier mannetje, die dezelfde bloedlijn had als de Blue Diamond. De vrouwtjes, die uit deze vader geboren waren hebben we in de fok gezet bij één van de Blue Diamonds, welke uit Diamond kwam. Dit op een leeftijd van 10 maanden.&lt;br /&gt;De andere Blue Diamond ging terug naar Engeland.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan en wij wisselen nog steeds dieren uit. We proberen de bloedlijn zo puur mogelijk te houden. Alleen in het begin hebben we een paar sterke, grote en van goede kwaliteit Afr. Violet vrouwtjes gebruikt om wat nieuw bloed in de Blue Diamond lijn te krijgen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We weten, dat fokkers in Amerika hebben geprobeerd een nieuwe kleur te krijgen. Misschien hebben ze geprobeerd Violet Saffieren te fokken.Na een jaar of 15 dit geprobeerd te hebben zijn ze ermee gestopt, omdat de dieren op een leeftijd van enkele jaren overleden. Wij denken, dat tandproblemen de oorzaak was.&lt;br /&gt;De stam, die wij hebben opgezet is tot op heden vrij van gebitsproblemen. De dieren zijn zeer vruchtbaar en brengen hun jongen goed groot.&lt;br /&gt;De saffieren, die uit deze bloedlijnen geboren worden hebben een normaal karakter en zijn van een veel betere kwaliteit, dan de normale saffieren.&lt;br /&gt;Ook de erg donkere Violetten, die uit deze lijnen geboren worden zijn gezond.&lt;br /&gt;Bert heeft aan een fokker in Duitsland gevraagd, of hij wist waar de Duits Violet oorspronkelijk vandaan komt. Deze fokker vertelde hem, dat de wortels van deze kleur in Engeland lagen. Dus is er misschien één of andere relatie tussen deze twee kleuren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vanaf 2003 is Nils Sörig in Denemarken ook begonnen met het fokken van Blue Diamonds.&lt;br /&gt;Hij kreeg van ons Saffieren, Afr. Violetten en dragers voor Blue Diamond, maar hij heeft de stam niet zuiver gehouden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alles wat we kunnen zeggen is, dat we niet expres een nieuwe kleur wilden creëren. Het was toeval, dat de Blue Diamond geboren werd.&lt;br /&gt;Misschien is het allemaal begonnen bij de experimenten van de Amerikaanse fokkers. En dat ze na gestopt te zijn met het proberen om goede sterke Violet Saffieren te krijgen de dragers naar Europa verkocht hebben.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Ongley heeft enkele hiervan gekocht en na 15 generaties fokken en selecteren van de beste Violetten en Beige Violetten, deze kleur het uiteindelijke resultaat is. Hij probeerde alleen maar Violetten te krijgen met de beste kwaliteit. Ook met het uitwisselen met onze dieren kregen beide farms de dragers voor deze nieuwe kleur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Op het ogenblik hebben we 8 Blue Diamond bokjes. De meeste van hen hebben 9 vrouwtjes, een paar hebben 5 vrouwtjes. Ook hebben we 5 Saffier drager voor Blue Diamond fokbokjes, die al hebben bewezen voor 100% Blue Diamond dragers te produceren.&lt;br /&gt;We selecteren de fokdieren zorgvuldig, waarbij we kijken naar kwaliteit en vitaliteit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Door heel Europa en Rusland zijn er al Blue Diamonds en dragers verkocht.&lt;br /&gt;Alleen de Blue Diamond, die uit onze bloedlijnen komt, mag de naam “Blue Diamond” hebben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Een mix van Violet x Saffier heet: Violet Saffier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382230528848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CGqt8pI/AAAAAAAAAJg/lxDpn1-0uxs/s400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382241125698482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CuJNC7I/AAAAAAAAAJo/jJU9FiLA9ak/s400/7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382248524219634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DJtJhPI/AAAAAAAAAJw/Uh_wCaGgOrw/s400/8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381384788271890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-Q4Cc4xI/AAAAAAAAAI4/ctkXR0Hpl6E/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381392560104370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-RU_Zo7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/uwwshakzwh4/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381402198140658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-R45SZvI/AAAAAAAAAJI/Byk5y8RPZ3E/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381404444857458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SBQ8lHI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/VVkQcD-HSMw/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381411551128434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SbvNq3I/AAAAAAAAAJY/1XbonagjM2M/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8504213703443814077-5122260609817817066?l=bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/5122260609817817066'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/5122260609817817066'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/06/santiago-blue-diamond.html' title='&quot;Santiago&quot; Blue Diamond'/><author><name>Moderator</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s72-c/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8504213703443814077.post-5275367911362527376</id><published>2007-11-02T15:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-08-16T08:08:31.938-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Das "BLUE DIAMOND" Chinchilla</title><content type='html'>&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/06/santiago-blue-diamond.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/8325/flagdutchsmalltu2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1179/germanyflagsmallqt9.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamond-swedish.html"&gt; &lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s800/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2008/09/blue-diamondchinchilla.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/8030/englishflagsmallpb7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;von Bert und Coby Bouwens &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chinchillafarm “SANTIAGO’&lt;br /&gt;Since 1960&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast jeder, der Chinchillas hält oder züchtet, hat schon einmal etwas über die Farbe Blue Diamond gehört.&lt;br /&gt;Es gibt viele Gerüchte über die Zucht dieser Farbe auf Webseiten und Internetforen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wie auch immer, diese Farbe wird immer beliebter und viele Leute haben uns gebeten ihnen zu erzählen, wie man diese Farbe züchtet.&lt;br /&gt;Dieser Artikel ist auch an diese gerichtet, die denken, dass man Blue Diamonds sehr einfach züchten kann. Aber wenn das ist, wo sind diese?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unser erstes Blue Diamond wurde 2001 in der Zuchtfarm von Ivan Ongley in Süd England geboren und befindet sich nach wie vor in unserer Zucht.&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind seit über 15 Jahren mit Ivan befreundet und während dieser Zeit haben wir viele Chinchillas untereinander getauscht.&lt;br /&gt;Die Eltern dieses Blue Diamond waren Standard Träger der Farbe Afro Violett. Die Vorfahren dieser Standards wurden aus den U.S.A. vieler Jahre zuvor importiert. Mit diesen Tieren züchteten wir 12 bis 15 Generationen ohne ungewöhnliche Vorkommnisse.  Die einzige Auffälligkeit war die Geburt einiger sehr schöner Afro Violett Nachkommen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan hatte eine Zuchtgruppe bestehend aus vier Trägerweibchen der Farbe AfroViolett und einem Afro Violett farbigen Bock.&lt;br /&gt;Er verlor diesen Bock leider durch eine Krankheit und das einzige Tier, welches er noch mit diesen Tieren verpaaren konnte, war ein Bruder. Dies war ein Standard Träger der Farbe Afro Violett.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan gab diesem Tier einen Namen: Diamond, begründet mit dem Schimmer des Felles wie Diamant-Splitter. Alle vier Weibchen wurden tragend und bekamen Jungtiere in einer mit einer seltsamen aber wunderschönen Farbe. Auch Deutsch Violett farbige und rezessiv Beige farbige Tiere wurden geboren.&lt;br /&gt;Im gleichen Jahr (2001) wurde in unserer Zucht ein sehr helles Afro Violett farbiges Tier geboren. Der Vater war ein Beige Afro Violett Velvet, die Mutter ein Beige Afro Violett.&lt;br /&gt;Ein paar Wochen nach der Geburt dieses Jungtieres besuchte uns Ivan und sah unser helles Afro Violett. Er war sehr erstaunt und erzählte uns, dass bei uns die gleiche Farbe gefallen sei, wie aus seiner Zuchtgruppe mit den vier Weibchen und dem Bock namens Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir untersuchten daraufhin die Stammbäume und fanden heraus, dass diese Tiere die gleichen Vorfahren haben. &lt;br /&gt;Im gleichen Jahr verlor Ivan einen Großteil seines Zuchtbestandes durch eine Krankheit. Er befürchte auch sein besonderes Tier und alle Träger zu verlieren. Deswegen entschied er sich, einen Teil seiner Zuchtherde in unsere Farm zu bringen, auch sein besonders farbiges Tier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382251915483378" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DWVsGPI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/yqkv3kNkjCg/s400/9.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WOHER STAMMT DER NAME BLUE DIAMOND?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obwohl wir wussten, dass man erst von einer neuen Farbe sprechen kann, wenn man mehrere Tiere der gleichen Farbe nachgezüchtet hat, beschlossen wir drei, dieser Farbe einen Namen zu geben.&lt;br /&gt;Das war gar nicht so schwierig.&lt;br /&gt;Die Farbe dieser Tiere war so eisblau und der Vater hieß Diamond. Also schlug Coby den Namen „Blue Diamond“ vor. Beide, Bert und Ivan stimmten zu.&lt;br /&gt;Das von Ivan gezüchtete Blue Diamond wurde auch Diamond genannt, wie sein Vater.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WIE BLUE DIAMONDS ZÜCHTEN?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unglücklicherweise verstarb das erste in unserer Zucht geborene Blue Diamond, jedoch hatten wir noch einige Tiere aus dieser Blutlinie verwand waren. So hatten wir zu diesem Zeitpunkt einen Blue Diamond und einige Tiere von denen wir hofften und annahmen sie seien auch Träger dieser besonderen Farbe.&lt;br /&gt;Im diesem Jahr verpaarten wir die besten Weibchen, die mögliche Träger dieser Farbe sein konnten mit diesem Blue Diamond Bock.&lt;br /&gt;Aus dieser Zuchtgruppe kamen hervor: Standards, Saphire, Afro Violett, zwei Blue Diamond Böcke und ein Tier, welches sehr dunkel Violett war. Wir gingen davon aus, dass es sich um ein Deutsch Violett handelte. &lt;br /&gt;Zur gleichen Zeit wurden Nachkommen eines Saphir farbigen Bockes geboren, der aus der gleichen Blutlinie wie der Blue Diamond stammte. Die weiblichen Nachkommen dieses Bockes verpaarten wir im Alter von 10 Monaten mit einem der Blue Diamonds, die von dem Bock Diamond abstammten.&lt;br /&gt;Das andere Blue Diamond farbige Tier gaben wir in die Zucht nach England. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir tauschten weiterhin Tiere mit Ivan aus und versuchen die ursprüngliche Blutlinie der Blue Diamonds so rein wie möglich zu halten.&lt;br /&gt;Nur am Anfang setzten wir starke, große und qualitativ hochwertige Afro Violett farbige Weibchen ein, um neues Blut in die Blue Diamond Zuchtlinie einzubringen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir wissen, dass es in Amerika Versuche gab, eine neue Farbe - möglicherweise Violett-Saphir – zu züchten.&lt;br /&gt;Nach 15 Jahren wurden diese versuche aber eingestellt, da die Tiere nur wenige Jahre alt wurden, wir vermuten an Zahnproblemen.&lt;br /&gt;Die Herde, die wir aufgebaut haben, ist bis heute frei von Zahnproblemen.&lt;br /&gt;Die Tiere sind sehr fruchtbar und ziehen ihre Jungen sehr gut auf.&lt;br /&gt;Die daraus entstandenen Saphire haben einen normalen Charakter und eine viel bessere Qualität als Saphire ohne Blue Diamond Trägereigenschaft.&lt;br /&gt;Auch die sehr dunklen Violett aus dieser Linie sind gesund.&lt;br /&gt;Bert fragte einen deutschen Züchter, ob er wisse, wo die Farbe Deutsch Violett ursprünglich herstammt.  Dieser Züchter antwortete ihm, dass die Wurzeln dieser Farbe in England lägen. &lt;br /&gt;Also besteht möglicherweise eine Verbindung zwischen diesen beiden Farben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2003 begann Nils Sórig in Dänemark ebenfalls Blue Diamonds zu züchten. Er bekam von uns Saphir, Afro Violett farbige Tiere und Träger der Farbe Blue Diamond. Er hielt die Linie nicht sauber.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir können nur festhalten, dass wir nicht beabsichtigten, eine neue Farbe zu züchten. Es war Zufall, dass ein Blue Diamond farbiges Tier geboren wurde.&lt;br /&gt;Möglicherweise begann alles mit dem Experiment der amerikanischen Züchter. Nachdem sie die Versuche robuste Violett-Saphir farbige Tiere zu züchten eingestellt hatten, verkauften sie die Trägertiere nach Europa.&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Ongley kaufte mehrere dieser Tiere und nach 15 Generationen der Zucht und Auslese der besten Afro Violett und Beige Afro Violett farbigen Tiere, war das Resultat das Blue Diamond.&lt;br /&gt;Sein ursprüngliches Ziel war es, die besten Afro Violett farbigen Tiere zu züchten.&lt;br /&gt;Durch den Tiertausch mit uns bekam jeder von uns beide Träger dieser neuen Farbe in die eigene Zucht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Zurzeit setzen wir 8 Blue Diamond farbige Tiere in der Zucht ein. Die meisten Böcke haben neun Zuchtweibchen, ein paar haben fünf.&lt;br /&gt;Auch befinden sich 5 Saphir Träger der Farbe Blue Diamond Böcke in unserer Zucht, deren Nachkommen zu 100% die Farb-Trägereigenschaft Blue Diamond vererbt bekommen.&lt;br /&gt;Wir betreiben eine sorgfältige Zuchtauslese in Hinblick auf Gesundheit und Qualität.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben bereits mehrere Blue Diamonds und Trägertiere europaweit und nach Russland verkauft. &lt;br /&gt;Nur die Blue Diamonds aus unseren Linien können als Blue Diamond bezeichnet werden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mischungen aus Violett und Saphir werden Violett-Saphir genannt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382230528848530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CGqt8pI/AAAAAAAAAJg/lxDpn1-0uxs/s400/6.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382241125698482" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_CuJNC7I/AAAAAAAAAJo/jJU9FiLA9ak/s400/7.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210382248524219634" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7_DJtJhPI/AAAAAAAAAJw/Uh_wCaGgOrw/s400/8.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381384788271890" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-Q4Cc4xI/AAAAAAAAAI4/ctkXR0Hpl6E/s400/1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381392560104370" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-RU_Zo7I/AAAAAAAAAJA/uwwshakzwh4/s400/2.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381402198140658" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-R45SZvI/AAAAAAAAAJI/Byk5y8RPZ3E/s400/3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381404444857458" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SBQ8lHI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/VVkQcD-HSMw/s400/4.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://santiagochinchilla.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-santiago-chinchillas.html"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5210381411551128434" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rNiwK62FQZA/SE7-SbvNq3I/AAAAAAAAAJY/1XbonagjM2M/s400/5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8504213703443814077-5275367911362527376?l=bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/5275367911362527376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8504213703443814077/posts/default/5275367911362527376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://bluediamondsantiago.blogspot.com/2007/11/under-construction.html' title='Das &quot;BLUE DIAMOND&quot; Chinchilla'/><author><name>Moderator</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/wichserroland/SNPRgXdUj-I/AAAAAAAAATU/vQUQZJq6tas/s72-c/SWEDISH%20FLAG%2020%20hoog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/></entry></feed>
