Warm Weather and the Critters

When the warm weather hits I like getting the bunnies out for exercise and the relaxation of nibbling grass. The guinea pigs make effective lawn mowers. :)

 Polish, loppies and Mini Rex chilling out together.

 Normally a chair is in with them, but today it was a cloudy day and they were under a tree

 Keener and Tanner relaxing

 Fresh airand fun!

 Biscuit is a much happier rabbit being outside.

Young Guinea pig and young bunnies

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Spotty pups April 30, 2012

 Four pups born, one DOA

two are quite large, one is small and weak

 Spotty unfortunately died. 

I'm guessing the size of the two large pups was a factor

as she was a healthy, well experienced sow.

Tanner is dad.

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Peske pupped - April 24, 2012

 Four pups.   

three girls one boy.

plan to retain the funky looking one

 Peske

Tanner

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August pups - April 22, 2012

August pups.

Two lovely pups.

Both females.

One will be kept, the other sold.

plan to keep dark faced one and sell the other.

This is Tanner

This is August

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Guinea pigs

So last night I went to a book sale in London.  Sold one piggie, and then picked up two .. one a return from sale, and one a rescue pig.

 the one I sold

 The one returned, best offer takes him home

The rescue pig.  Talker, nicely behaved pig.

has dark eyes, not red.

Best offer takes him home.

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Shale pups March 7, 2012

 Shale

Torpedo

These two gave me four pups this morning.

Three crested boys.

One smooth female.

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Rilla pups, March 4, 2012

 Rilla is mom

 Tanner is dad

one male, one female

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Spotty pups - Feb 4, 2012

Four pups born.  All healthy and looking good.
Three girls, one boy.  Male is basically white.

Dad is Torpedo.

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Connie pups - January 30, 2012

This is Connie

She had three pups born

Nice looking pups, they are doing well.

Dad is Torpedo

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Jet - pups December 31, 2011

four pups born. One honking huge one. two were DOA.

She died as a result.

Raising up two kits that survived birthing.

For a sow that was not supposed to be bred - and came as a rescue from folks "allergic" to her, this sow was bred before getting here as running with the boar would have had her due mid-January at the very earliest. This kind of stuff angers me.

Makes me wonder what she was bred with....

anyways, her two kits are looking good. Lively, warm since they are with a boar and a sow. Both will do good at teaching the pups what to eat. :)

Feeding them hay, pumpkin with mashed pellets, will get oatmeal in the mornings. We'll see how they go.

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Currently available Guinea pigs

this one is from Splotch. He's an active, talkative young lad. Smooth coat.

These are two boys from Connie. They have a soft, silky feel to their coats. The white face one I often call Pixie because that's what he makes me think of when I look at his face. Both are like mom and are quieter pigs.

this is OB, nice young pig. Born this summer. Kept because of his colour.
Decent pig, good size to him. Has some wispy hairs on his backend, otherwise a normal smooth coat. Bossy with other adult pigs, is good with young pigs.

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Connie pups - November 5, 2011

Three pups, Elmo is dad.

all smooth coated.
All male.

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Shale - October 27, 2011

Shale had singleton female pup.

Tigger is the dad (called him Ben here, but real name is Tigger).

It is a crested. Is a good mix of colours between the two.

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Splotch - October 21, 2011

two male pups.

Both are pending sale to my rabbit care person.

Elmo (rescue male) is dad.

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Janey - October 14, 2011

not sure who did as everyone looks the same as before. Thought it might have been spotty but she pupped Sept 2, so has to be someone else.

but I don't know who.

it just doesn't make sense since Spotty is the only skinny one...

I finally figured it out, it was Janey. Figured it out by watching them closely and went hmmm... those pups are following her around a bit, wonder if she's mom. Picked her up, gave her a good going over and said, YES,.. I believe you are the momma. You don't look much thinner but picked up you feel lighter. :)

So Elmo (a short stay rescue) is the dad. I had run him with the girls to get some good socialization time in as he was pushing with other piggies and the ladies helped to chill him out.

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