do chinchillas shed
Shedding & Grooming a Chinchilla. Every three months a chinchilla will shed its fur, this sounds more alarming than it actually is. Chinchilla fur is released slowly just like we loose hair strands on a daily basis. The difference is chinchillas shed a lot of fur due to them having so many hairs per follicle. On average humans have three hairs per follicle, whereas a chinchilla has up to eighty hairs per follicle, hence a lot of fur being shed.