A busy afternoon ahead but so excited!

[ghostbusterbunny]

Yup, I've got one busy afternoon lined up! I have to clean out all of my hutches, give most of them a scrubbing to within an inch of their lives, prepare my free larger hutches and make the 'piggy apartments' lovely, fresh and clean! AND, I've got to de-grass the patio where my shed is due to go!

Why am I excited? Well, I am off to Milhaven Rescue tomorrow to meet rather a lot of lovely piggies (8 girls and two VERY handsome boys) and as 'meet' is going to turn into 'cuddle, fall in love with and bring home'; I need to get all of my accommodation in tip top condition for them!

Most of the new girls will end up as a little group, until my shed arrives when I'll be introducing two female herds together and they will have free reign of the shed and eventually a joined on aviary style run, and the boys will have a 5x2 deluxe piggy apartment to tear up and destroy, as cheeky little boys do!

Excited doesn't even come close to describing how I'm feeling right now! My parents/sister/boyfriend all think I am crazy, but if I can give (a few...) more piggies a nice home with more friends then I'm going to go for it! |)

 

[Guinea pig slave]

Yipee - new piggies...don't you just love that feeling...?/
Hope it all goes well and you don't come home with more than you intended
Why can I not promise myself that 10 is enough with all of these needy little beauties around rolleyes
Keep us posted on tomorrow and try and get some sleep tonight...:x

 

[ghostbusterbunny]

Yipee - new piggies...don't you just love that feeling...?/
Hope it all goes well and you don't come home with more than you intended
Why can I not promise myself that 10 is enough with all of these needy little beauties around rolleyes
Keep us posted on tomorrow and try and get some sleep tonight...:x

Well when I first joined TGPF I said I wanted 4 girls and a boy. So far I have a herd of 7 girls, and a husboar and wife pair.

Then, I was just looking for about 4 pigs as a birthday present to myself (two off me and my boyfriend was going to adopt two for me); then I saw the piggies on the website... My self-set limit went out the window.

After this though, I will only be allowed one more; a neutered male if a suitable one becomes available at any point. Mum and dad have capped me now after tomorrow, and there's no getting around it!

 

[Guinea pig slave]

Well when I first joined TGPF I said I wanted 4 girls and a boy. So far I have a herd of 7 girls, and a husboar and wife pair.

Then, I was just looking for about 4 pigs as a birthday present to myself (two off me and my boyfriend was going to adopt two for me); then I saw the piggies on the website... My self-set limit went out the window.

After this though, I will only be allowed one more; a neutered male if a suitable one becomes available at any point. Mum and dad have capped me now after tomorrow, and there's no getting around it!

|) We said we'd stop at 6 then rehomed four babies |) - really not as much difference as I thought in care time and costs etc. so mentioned I'd like two more (desperate for a little Himi sow or two) but OH was a bit sceptical rolleyes
Last night he was restlessly pathering around the set up he's built and mentioned he could modify and build another 6ft level at one end...and it's my birthday next week too :x

 

[Wiebke]

Have a great time - I am soooo jealous that you could slip on my drooldrooldrool!

 

[milhaven]

The piggies are all so excited too! They are all wondering whats going on as they are having final checks, manicures, trims and weigh ins!

Its been a busy afternoon (think I need a sit down!) but they are all looking lovely, ready to meet you. You just watch them roll in poop tonight!

 

[ghostbusterbunny]

The piggies are all so excited too! They are all wondering whats going on as they are having final checks, manicures, trims and weigh ins!

Its been a busy afternoon (think I need a sit down!) but they are all looking lovely, ready to meet you. You just watch them roll in poop tonight!

Aww, it must have been some operation you had going this afternoon! I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do when all these piggies come up for their first bath time here... :...

We've just finished; all the hutches are ready, pimped out, treats put in. The only thing missing are piggies!

Heehee, rolling in poop... I did Chip and Teaser's hutch while they were out snuggling in the run and the second I put Chip back, the started pooping EVERYWHERE! All my hard work, soiled in the space of seconds. He'd be in trouble if he weren't so damn cute!

Yay! I'm going to be too excited to sleep tonight!

 

[Farquhar]

What exciting news. Cant wait for some pics of the new arrivals!

 

[LordBernieBouffant]

What exciting news. Cant wait for some pics of the new arrivals!

Me too - lots of pigtures please

 

[ghostbusterbunny]

What exciting news. Cant wait for some pics of the new arrivals!

Me too - lots of pigtures please

I'm sure this time tomorrow evening there will be plenty! I love taking photos of my piggies, so this will be a fantastic excuse to get the camera out!

I don't think it's quite sunk in yet just how many piggies I'm going to have by tomorrow afternoon... @)

 

[ghostbusterbunny]

Well, it's official; I now have more than double the number of piggies that I woke up with! It's been one hectic day and things haven't quite gone to plan (hence the lack of photos tonight!) but here's what happened!

We met 5 separate pairs. For those that looked at Milhaven's website in the past few weeks; we adopted Ozzy and Sora (Peruvian and what looks like a sheltie cross - hair flows backwards but he has an adorable little crest!), Skye and Kalani (mother and sister to Sora - again, at a guess I'd say they're sheltie mixes), Flossie and Panda. We also adopted four that weren't on the website; Jessica and Jenny (pink-eyed ginger crested mother and daughter - Jenny is the smallest of the bunch and is seriously adorable) and Tess and Leah (Joanne thinks Tess might be Ozzy's mum - at any rate they've got to be related rather closely!).

We have so far managed to bond Skye, Kalani, Jessica, Jenny and Muffin. I brought Muffin into the mix as she's very friendly and helped get the other girls interacting with each other. They're now living as a little group until the babies are big enough to join the herd when the shed arrives.

Ozzy is incredibly skittish, but he's absolutely gorgeous. He's a walking hairball! He should settle down soon so I can start getting him out and spending time with him. Sora is a pretty little boy; quite laid back!

For Tess and Leah, Flossie and Panda; we have a mixed bag (but I will not be defeated just yet!). Flossie met the girls but was rather mean. After contacting Joanne again we're going to try giving her a sectioned off part of the run (and we will add this to the shed if Flossie needs more time) where she can get used to having a lot of new pigs around as I think she was acting more out of fear than anything! Tess is incredibly nervous, so she will be getting lots of TLC before moving in with the rest. She was brought to Milhaven through a deprevation order; so she's still very skittish and could do with putting a bit more weight on yet to get her back to tip-top condition. Plus she just lost her boys, then her only daughter sadly passed away last week so she has been through an awful lot. Leah I think will help as she lost her partner too but is more confident so she should be able to help Tess in time. These four piggies are going to need extra TLC, but they're all lovely piggies so in time I think they'll settle just fine!

I'm so happy, they're all gorgeous new additions to my family, my HUGE piggy family! Once the shed has arrived and we've managed to integrate all the girls together, it'll be absolutely fantastic.

 

[mrs_tommo28]

Sounds amazing! glad you had a great time meeting all these piggies, I do love bringing them home - i bought home two new ones today. Gives me a thrill to home these gorgeous little animals!