Sarah from Chucklebunnies
Adult Guinea Pig
I now have another piggy in my herd, called Mina in memory of Carmina. (I haven't posted on here about it before but Carmina had to be put to sleep nearly two weeks ago) She is a runt of a litter, brought to my attention by a girl working in Outlet here near Hull (who I used to teach science to) who was worried about her. Anyway, I was taken to the back room and shown a lovely little piggy who is eleven weeks now but the size of about a six week old and I could not resist her at all! Here she is with the piggy who adopted her and is now her mummy, Columbine, being a hat...
See how much Columbine puts up with!
Here you can see the size of her, admittedly 'trucking' with my biggest girl (1.6kg) Carmilla....
We needed a way to feed her veg separately because although the piggies had apparently had had a lot of veg she personally hadn't eaten much of it. She knew kale but was wary of cucumber and lettuce, let alone the rest. So I think she was simply prevented from getting any nice veg by her bigger sisters. So we put a rotostak cage into the conservatory for her, she can easily fit through the opening but the fully grown piggies can only just get a head in, and she has been in and out and nibbling on pepper, cucumber, carrot and pear. It is transparent so she won't set up house in there and worry her new Mum. She also has her own stock of pellets in there so she can feed on demand and the other piggies won't get any fatter! I couldn't take a picture of her in it...so here is Carmilla waiting patiently for the veg to be available....
She is nosy, weebles happily in cuddles, is finding her 'get off me' voice when Columbine washes her ears and bottom and is really truly eating for Britain. Such a lot of food going down. She has been with us a week now and yesterday she came out for morning kale and ate alongside the big girls so she is getting less and less shy. It's lovely to see her develop - at the moment her popcorns are actually all partly hidden and private but pretty soon she'll be leaping all over the place. She looks so very happy now it gladdens my heart.
See how much Columbine puts up with!
Here you can see the size of her, admittedly 'trucking' with my biggest girl (1.6kg) Carmilla....
We needed a way to feed her veg separately because although the piggies had apparently had had a lot of veg she personally hadn't eaten much of it. She knew kale but was wary of cucumber and lettuce, let alone the rest. So I think she was simply prevented from getting any nice veg by her bigger sisters. So we put a rotostak cage into the conservatory for her, she can easily fit through the opening but the fully grown piggies can only just get a head in, and she has been in and out and nibbling on pepper, cucumber, carrot and pear. It is transparent so she won't set up house in there and worry her new Mum. She also has her own stock of pellets in there so she can feed on demand and the other piggies won't get any fatter! I couldn't take a picture of her in it...so here is Carmilla waiting patiently for the veg to be available....
She is nosy, weebles happily in cuddles, is finding her 'get off me' voice when Columbine washes her ears and bottom and is really truly eating for Britain. Such a lot of food going down. She has been with us a week now and yesterday she came out for morning kale and ate alongside the big girls so she is getting less and less shy. It's lovely to see her develop - at the moment her popcorns are actually all partly hidden and private but pretty soon she'll be leaping all over the place. She looks so very happy now it gladdens my heart.
x)
