Chinchillas can eat corn leaves. Corn leaves are non-toxic and contain certain sugars and fiber, as well as amino acids and minerals. Chinchillas can eat corn to replenish energy and obtain nutrients. If you have corn leaves at home, you can feed your chinchillas to reduce waste. However, it is not recommended to use corn leaves as the staple food of chinchillas, as it may cause malnutrition in chinchillas. Chinchillas should be fed mainly with special chinchilla food.

Precautions for feeding chinchillas:

1. Do not buy food containing additives and preservatives from the supermarket. These things will bring unpredictable dangers to chinchillas. .

2. Do not feed your chinchilla fresh vegetables and fruits. Food with too high water content will cause your chinchilla to have diarrhea. Only apples can be eaten in small amounts.

3. Don’t feed cooked melon seeds to chinchillas. The reason why chinchillas eat melon seeds is because melon seeds contain linoleic acid that chinchillas need, which is good for chinchilla hair. However, the linoleic acid in cooked melon seeds It has already been used up, and the cooked melon seeds consumed by many people contain salt and additives. Salt can easily cause chinchillas to lose hair, and additives are not suitable for chinchillas, so we should not give melon seeds to chinchillas.

4. Do not feed soybeans to chinchillas. Soybeans eat into the chinchilla’s stomach and absorb a large amount of water in the intestines, which will cause the chinchilla to feel bloated. In severe cases, it may cause intestinal obstruction and be life-threatening.