New piggy

Hbell17

Hbell17

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So I got a new piggy named ellie. Her last owner got her and found out she had to pay extra to keep her. She was kept in a you and me brand rat cage with no other pigs. Was fed low quality food and no veggies (I'm assuming because it took her a few weeks to eat them). The picture is her eating hay with my chunky girl Tiki who is almost 3. Ellie is very small and underweight but I can tell she's getting bigger from holding her
 
Feed her a good quality hay based diet from now on.
Ensure you weigh her (and your other piggy) weekly so you can keep an eye on her weight and ensure she is gaining each week.
 
Can’t see any pigture? But we’ll done on you for giving Ellie a loving home x
 
That picture was too large. Here's ellie (left) and ava. My piggies are on the oxbow diet so its good quality. They get lettuce and zucchini everyday as well as other veggies so they have a good diet. Their weight are going to the normal range. Tiki was my first piggies in like 10 years so when I got hasn't eating the best. They both seem healthy otherwise
 

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Gorgeous!

There’s not really a ’normal range’ when it comes to weight as each piggy is different, with heft being also an important factor when determining what is healthy for each piggy. Youre really weighing really so you spot any losses or downward trends as they signify lack of hay intake and potential illness
 
Piggies&buns said:
Gorgeous!

There’s not really a ’normal range’ when it comes to weight as each piggy is different, with heft being also an important factor when determining what is healthy for each piggy. Youre really weighing really so you spot any losses or downward trends as they signify lack of hay intake and potential illness
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Yeah I'm aware. You were able to see ellies hip bones and feel her spine. Granted shes still a baby. Maybe 3-4 months and tikis tummy was like dragging but she's getting smaller. I'm aware there's no true "healthy weight" like my piggie ava is a year old now and she's not even as tall as Tiki or the same length so I know her weight wouldn't be the same as tiki "healthy weight". None of the girls so sign of illness. They all get excited when I wake up because thats veggie time lol
 
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