The chinchilla is a kind of small animal which lives on a well regulated life. The most punctual thing that they do is the dinner time, so with regard to the chinchilla which just gets home, you should feed it at certain times, which is very helpful to enhance its confidence in its master.
With regard to the chinchilla which just gets home, it maybe eat very little food because it may do not suit the new home, so do not think the appetite of the chinchilla is just a little. You had better put a piece of apple in its cage everyday to satisfy its selection for food.
The leftover forage and cured hay should be discarded, because generally these food which are picked left by the chinchilla are considered as the junk food by the chinchilla. We should believe their specialistic vision. If you do not change the junk food considered by the chinchilla or the fresh food on time, some chinchilla would pee in your pot to remind you that you should exchange the fresh food for it.
The snacks food just can only be used for growing love and training, if you want to stock the chinchilla, itwill be more productive for the training that gradually let the chinchilla out the cage before feeding food as well as feed the chinchilla a little snacks food.
Do not mix many different kinds of food to feed the chinchilla at the same time, because they always will consume the delicious food they think at first while they would leave the unpalatable food that they think. The chinchillas need all kind of nutritions, so try to feed them the simplex forage, the staple food is the staple food, the forage is the forage. But there is also a kind of imported forage for feeding the chinchillas which is mixed with more than ten different kinds of food, and the chinchillas always discard one or two ingredients and not eat them.