clear beginner question hehe

[Lady Kelly]

OK so how are you all weighing your piggies?

Do you use kitchen scales or bathroom scales?

I have retro style kitchen scales only at the moment and the image of just plonking them in there to weigh them makes me giggle

 

[sandra turpin]

I have the digital kitchen scales. I put a plastic food container on them, set to zero then put the piggies in, one at a time

 

[PiggiePal]

i've got some kitchen scales - it has quite a big bowl attached so they dont hop out. It is quite funny hehe! You should definately get pigtures in your retro scales

 

[Bailey]

I have retro style kitchen scales only at the moment and the image of just plonking them in there to weigh them makes me giggle

This would make such an awesome pigture!

I have the digital kitchen scales. I put a plastic food container on them, set to zero then put the piggies in, one at a time

This is how I do it too

You can download a weight tracking chart from Laura's site
http://guineapighelpline.com/WeightTracking.pdf

 

[Lady Kelly]

ooo excellent thanks everyone thought it might be that simple... best make sure we've washed the flour out of the silver dish before plonking them in hehe

 

[fluffy69]

Ive got to do this with Boofle tomorrow. will try n get a few piccis

 

[Wiebke]

I use a cracked old oval plastic bowl that is just the right size (although Nerys is a bit of a tight fit these days!) However, it didn't work with my very skitish newbie Tani. When I set her down gently, I had to immediately pick her off the apples in fruit bowl about a foot away. She's quick, and she's a jumper!

In order to get at least a rough idea of Tani's weight, I weighed her rolled up in a cosy I had picked her up in and then then weighed the cosy afterwards without her in it. That worked.

A shoebox with the lid on would also do for skittish piggies at the beginning.

 

[nutmeg]

I used to weigh mine on retro scales:

But I have digital ones now with a plastic bowl on top. xx

 

[Lady Kelly]

Nutmeg they are the same as the scales we have but ours are red hehe!

 

[nutmeg]

Nutmeg they are the same as the scales we have but ours are red hehe!

They are great for weighing pigs. I just put something in the bottom so the pigs don't slide around, then adjust the pointer to zero. xx

 

[fluffy69]

oh what great pics. I cant wait to do boofle now. Long as the nose ointment stays still. She is sooo nosey.lol makes me laff she does. Always snuffling around my face when Iclean her out, and even licked my chest when I was holding her yesterday. drool

 

[Freela]

I have small kitchen scales that I use to weigh my pigs. Because the bowl that comes with my particular scale is too small to hold a piggie, I put a basket on the scale, adjust it to zero, and then stick the piggie in the basket!