Eriathwens piggies

I tried to get a lovely picture of Bailey, before I put the lights off, having a sleep using a chunk of parsnip as a pillow but of course I woke her up, poor thing. She gave me a good picture of her bed head though :xd: almost as bad as mine lol!
20190429_000557.webp
 
Misty wanted to show off her papaya face painting, she looks like a happy little old man lol! The abscess on her ear has ruptured for the first time in a while (you can kind of see it in the middle picture) so looks like i'll be squeezing that out for the next few days :vom: but at least she was able to keep the ear!

DSCN0519.webpDSCN0521.webpDSCN0522 (2).webp
 
I'm going to preface this with 1: It's not what it looks like 😂🤦‍♀️ he wouldn't let me wipe the Osteocare off his face, so I left him to it rather than making him have a tantrum, it isnt boar glue! And 2: Sometimes my pigs have clean faces, just apparently not when I want to take pictures! :lol!:

But yeah, Leonards been out and about, going about his important Leonard business, pooping and scent marking all over my carpets! (Today I learned the spoon that comes with his Calpol makes a fantastic poop scoop lol)

DSCN0550.webpDSCN0551.webpDSCN0557.webpDSCN0562.webpDSCN0566.webpDSCN0569.webpDSCN0573.webp
 
Eriathwen said:
I'm going to preface this with 1: It's not what it looks like 😂🤦‍♀️ he wouldn't let me wipe the Osteocare off his face, so I left him to it rather than making him have a tantrum, it isnt boar glue! And 2: Sometimes my pigs have clean faces, just apparently not when I want to take pictures! :lol!:

But yeah, Leonards been out and about, going about his important Leonard business, pooping and scent marking all over my carpets! (Today I learned the spoon that comes with his Calpol makes a fantastic poop scoop lol)

View attachment 112223View attachment 112224View attachment 112225View attachment 112226View attachment 112227View attachment 112228View attachment 112229
Click to expand...
He looks so soft ❤️
 
Me and the shiny bean have been doing some brainstorming.. I do my best thinking sat doing nothing with a pig on my lap, or watching one tear the room apart. While if I have to spend the next 5+ years doing the whole syringing 20ml of water 3-4 times a day thing, I will obviously, but i'd really rather not! So, seeing as she can't have a fruit flavoured water bottle every day due to the sugar content, I thought, why not herb and veggie infused water? I'm going to try making up some cucumber, fennel, celery, basil and/or coriander water, or a mixture of them to see what she likes. That way she can hopefully hydrate herself better and nothing in that will harm the other 2 if they decide they want some too.
I can't decide if it's a brilliant idea or plain stupid, but I suppose we will have to wait and see 😂 😂 she doesn't look overly impressed, bless her.

DSCN0593.webpDSCN0598.webpDSCN0604 (2).webp
 
Thankyou! I'm definitely blessed with these little nuggets. Even if I do have to retrieve them from behind things on a regular basis, or stop them chewing things they shouldn't (Ebony for some reason thought eating a chunk from the rubber broom was a good idea!)
I forgot to say Leonard had been started on algae oil and CBD, he's doing really well on the few doses he's had so far, he destroyed his cage, threw his snuggle sack around and dug up his shavings. He's currently getting some form of medication or other every 3 hours during the day, metacam, calpol or his CBD. Then fitting his supplements in when I can, he's decided to go off his dried milk thistle so I'm going to have to start buying him capsules and fit those in somewhere too now XD he's certainly got me wrapped around his little paws lately, probably as punishment for giving him a bath haha!
 
Moment of truth, Ebonys afternoon fluids have been skipped, and an extra bottle has been put on their cage filled with cucumber and mint water which actually tastes quite nice if I say so myself..
59685317_10213975685647052_3585642739712131072_n.jpg

Of course as predicted, it's been completely ignored so far, but we will have to wait and see!
I managed to spill it all over myself though so I wiped it onto the herds plexiglass and was not disappointed lol! Ivory likes it at least, the others were a bit bemused with her behaviour though.
 
Aw bless, just look at them all looking to see what they are missing out on. They can't work out what Ivory is having. :luv: Your piggies are so adorable.
 
Thankyou! It gave me a good laugh how none of them bothered to shift her out the way to see what she had, even when she casually started eating hay so they would lose interest!
 
48ish hours on and the cucumber water is the only water currently being drank by all 3 pigs and Ebony has not made so much as a peep while toileting. Fingers firmly crossed I've found a solution to her bouts of IC, she's not even on any painkillers! She even had a small bit of kale yesterday which I was concerned would cause her an issue but nope :) so far so good.
 
Thanks, I really hope so! With Leonard on at least one medication or supplement every 3 hours that I'm awake, having to sit for half an hour 3xs a day getting fluid into little Ebony was beginning to wear me down a bit.

The 2 hairballs are starting to warm up to the camera, Bailey more so than Pippin, but they no longer run away if they're in their hideys, although I think the food helps 😂 they're turning into such beautiful grown up piggies.

DSCN0619 (2).webpDSCN0621.webpDSCN0623.webpDSCN0624.webpDSCN0625.webp
 
The difference in the pair of them always makes me laugh. Bailey has such beautiful flowing hair..whereas Pippin looks like someone's dragged a cockeral through a hedge backwards! Just when I think I've figured out what direction it wants to go in, it changes it's mind lol she's still beautiful though bless her.

They had a good check over (as did all the others and Leonard's gained 60g!) and I can finally say that their ribs are no longer able to be felt individually, they've gained a really nice amount of muscle mass. I'm so glad I got them and could sort them out.
20190508_225827.webp20190508_232926.webp
 
My master plan is for the piggies to have eaten the entire hazel tree at the bottom of the garden that's leaning on our fence by winter lol!
Leonard's certainly on board anyway, although he seemed to prefer my spare pea plants! His little outing was cut short today due to him getting a little chilly and puffed up but he still had a great time :)

20190512_155723.webp20190512_155825.webp20190512_155859.webp20190512_155842.webp20190512_155950.webp20190512_160013.webp20190512_160040.webp20190512_160122.webp
 
The little floofers have got the hang of sitting on my lap calmly in the piggy room, so we've started to venture downstairs to watch tv of an evening! Pippin is not as impressed as Bailey is with the idea. But then Pippin currently isnt fond of anything that takes away from her being able to run around the cage barging everyone out the way and letting everyone know what an important boss pig she is lol

60594735_10214039940853392_1322225009426432000_n.webp
 
I figured i'd branch out on what veggies I grew this year, to say the radishes failed would be an understatement, I'm not sure how many I planted but only one grew :lol!: but my single, solitary radish was ready to harvest so I gave it to Leonard, otherwise I would have had to try to divide it between 11 which I'm not sure would have worked!
He seemed pretty happy with his mid afternoon snack :)

DSCN0648.webpDSCN0649.webpDSCN0657 (2).webpDSCN0661.webpDSCN0662 (3).webpDSCN0666 (2).webpDSCN0671.webpDSCN0674 (2).webp
 
Oh, Leonard, you are such a gorgeous boy x Must try Bill and Ted with radish, never thought to try it, and ours have grown rather big this year for a change
 
So apparently I planted the radishes too deep and thats why they failed...oops. I hope your piggies enjoy them! My lot are very fond of them :)

Me and Delilah have been chilling out for a bit, her right eye seems to be bothering her, she's always had overly sensitive eyes but they've been ok for a while. Hopefully they calm down again soon.

DSCN0680 (2).webpDSCN0695.webpDSCN0696.webpDSCN0697.webpDSCN0703 (2).webpDSCN0703 (3).webpDSCN0715 (2).webp
 
There isnt a day when this piggy doesn't make me laugh XD considering how poorly he should be, he's remarkably happy! His weight is still stable, as he's proudly posing so I can show everyone lol and he even gained 2 grams once I convinced him to stop dangling his testicles over the edge and put them on the cold scales!
He still enjoys talking to the girls over the barrier but whatever they said to him tonight clearly offended him and he came running over for a cuddle before lights out.

20190521_230554.webp20190521_230600.webp
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top