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Does anyone fancy posting pictures of their piggy groups for me to drool over?

I've always fancied a nice big group, but knowing my luck, if I did, I'd end up with cages dotted all over the house because they all decided they didn't want to be friends any more :p
 
Ant and Dec said:
Does anyone fancy posting pictures of their piggy groups for me to drool over?

I've always fancied a nice big group, but knowing my luck, if I did, I'd end up with cages dotted all over the house because they all decided they didn't want to be friends any more :p
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I have six piggies, guess they're classed as a group. But they won't sit together, and let me take a group picture.8...
 
Guineapigs4life said:
I have six piggies, guess they're classed as a group. But they won't sit together, and let me take a group picture.8...
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Haha, always the way. My pair won't sit together for a "group pic" no way I'd manage to get 6 to sit together :D

AndreaJane said:
Just posted a thread about my gang: http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=98699 Enjoy. Will take more group pigtures when Rocket is feeling a bit more photogenic. ;)
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Awww, they are lovely drool
 
Treacle and Toffee
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Charlie and Theo
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x)
 
Rosie was a lonely piggy when Georgie died

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So we went to the potteries in May and came back with Ruby

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Two wasn't enough so we went back about 10 days later with two piggies and came home with 4.
Back in May. The first day all 4 piggies came home together.

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Investigating their 'baby guinea pig pal' Front-to-back: Ruby,Tia, Esme and Rosie.

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On a photoshoot :) Esme, Tia, Rosie and Ruby
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Proof that group pigtures don't always work

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My Tribe of 12 (one dominant neutered boar and 11 sows)
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My Troop of one older neutered boar and three middle aged sows:
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My Trio of two older cataract sows and their gentle husboar:
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The best way of building up a group is by starting with two bonded sows and a neutered boar of their choice, then by adding a younger bonded couple of sows - that way, you prevent most potential outsider situations. With five piggies you start getting group behaviour and it is getting easier to introduce newbies (preferably non dominant or with a group background).

Dating at a rescue for compatibility is a good way of making sure that the piggies are getting on.
 
Wiebke overload of piggies!x) love the pic where they're all at their individual feed bowls.drool
 
OMG! What a thread!

Klee - Rosie pictures, I need a warning when you post these..... x) drool
 
What a wonderful thread this is! I love it! Especially's Weibke's pic of her tribe all at their individual feeding bowls at the same time! How do you get a pic like that?! Must be trick photography, surely! Magical!
 
The only group shot of my gang:

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Left to right, Minnie, Toffee, Lilly and Scrummy. xx

They were not amused at being made to sit in a row like that, hense the pee'd off expressions from Minnie and Lilly x
 
I started with a pair Rosie and Rum

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Then went on to adopt 3 Welsh beauties Maggie, Milkshake and Pixie

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Sadly I lost Rum earlier this year :(


I then adopted my little Yorkshire cuties Gracie and Lizzie

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I now have 6 gorgeous girls in two groups
 
I will have to post pics of my pigs! I have 12 all together and 8 are I'm a group together! It's the best thing ever to have a group!
 
Aw, I dont think I have any in a group, but these are them...
(just dont get your hopes up- this probably wont work, I'm terrible with computers haha 8:))

Kay, I think I might have got it.

The american with tan and white fur is Jay,
the Abyssinian with black fur and a tan mowhawk is Fidget
The abyssinian with tan and white fur is Walnut.

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Pengwhen said:
Aw, I dont think I have any in a group, but these are them...
(just dont get your hopes up- this probably wont work, I'm terrible with computers haha 8:))

Kay, I think I might have got it.

The american with tan and white fur is Jay,
the Abyssinian with black fur and a tan mowhawk is Fidget
The abyssinian with tan and white fur is Walnut.

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Awh, poop.
 
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Marge, Cinnamon and the un-named baby! This was when she was 2 days ols, she's 4 weeks now, will put a more recent photo on soon x>>
 
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This is my old fart, fidget giving you all kisses for not minding my mess up and waste of a post above me! :rose
I dont have any group pictures, though. Walnut sort of shys away from the camera. D:
 
I love seeing group shots! Thery're all gorgrous, but that shot of MargeAndCinnamon junior is just lush...x)

Heres my group of 5:
Floss, Roxy, Oscar, Violet and Primrose.

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I started with Violet and Primrose, then added Roxy a few months later, then over a year later added Floss, followed by Oscar (neutered boar) a few months after that. I've just noticed that there seems to be a pattern developing...2 piggies a year! I wonder who will perhaps join the herd in 2013...? ;)
 
my mini herd

Taken last summer
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sadly I lost flash at easter this year :(

All grown up, summer this year with the new neutered husboar
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Still toying with the idea of adding a 5th :red
 
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