Raise chinchillas? Hah, hah, hah!

That was Wishbone's response to the idea of mine to raise chinchillas at da ranch.

When he laughs, I'm like the EF Hutton commercial--- I listen.  Then I do the opposite.

Well, looking at the proposition, it will be somewhat daunting.  As if the project wasn't daunting enough as it is.  I need to get started early on it because time is not on my side.  That is to say, if I go out there 2 1/2 years before I get my government cheese, I may not have enuff money to live on.  There's that word again---money---will I ever get free of it?

I could always wait for the government cheese, but that takes time, and I don't have a tremendous lot of that left either.  Either way, it seems, you lose.

I figure that to raise 50 chins a year, I need 25 females.  That's two babies per female per year.  You'll need about 5 males to do the honors, so to speak.  That's a total of 30 chins.  That won't be cheap, nosirree bob.

That's 5 breeding pods, if that's what they're called.  If each breeding pod can be had for $500, that would require 2500 bucks for the necessary animals.  I'm thinking you won't get off that light.  But, I haven't looked into it yet.

It could be that the animals are going to be too expensive unless I find another way to do this.