SpinningNickel
Junior Guinea Pig
I have two boars. Machu is a pet shop pig so I don't know his EXACT age, but I bought him at an estimated 8-10 weeks old, so I guess he's about 9 months. I know that technically makes him more or less an adult (I've read that pigs can theoretically continue to grow up to 18 months, but that it seriously plateaus after about 10 months).
I weigh Machu and his cage mate (Yoshi, who's around 12 weeks now) every week or two, and these get plotted on a basic Excel graph. Yoshi is obviously growing in leaps and bounds, being a baby. Machu, however, seems to be hitting a plateau... at a mere 850g or so.
It it just me, or is that really small for a more-or-less adult boar? Does he have another growth spurt due, where he'll shoot up like he did a couple of months ago? Or is he likely to be pretty much done, and just a bit of a runt?
I ask mainly because Machu is one of those pigs that LOVES his nuggets, and will just happily chow down on them all day if I let him. I've not been restricting their dry food too much, since Yoshi is growing and it's winter (they're indoors but my house gets wicked cold during the day when the central heating is off), but if Machu isn't going to get much bigger in himself, I'll want to go back to nugget rationing or mixing them into the hay forage tray so he doesn't just get fat.
I weigh Machu and his cage mate (Yoshi, who's around 12 weeks now) every week or two, and these get plotted on a basic Excel graph. Yoshi is obviously growing in leaps and bounds, being a baby. Machu, however, seems to be hitting a plateau... at a mere 850g or so.
It it just me, or is that really small for a more-or-less adult boar? Does he have another growth spurt due, where he'll shoot up like he did a couple of months ago? Or is he likely to be pretty much done, and just a bit of a runt?
I ask mainly because Machu is one of those pigs that LOVES his nuggets, and will just happily chow down on them all day if I let him. I've not been restricting their dry food too much, since Yoshi is growing and it's winter (they're indoors but my house gets wicked cold during the day when the central heating is off), but if Machu isn't going to get much bigger in himself, I'll want to go back to nugget rationing or mixing them into the hay forage tray so he doesn't just get fat.
