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[Smores_n_choco]

Getting so big so fast. I blink and then they're bigger... 1 litterly grew overnight. choko has gone from calm, to spunky. and smores has gone from being spunky, 2 calmer. so apparently they have switched personalitie choko is actually kind of naughty. I think he is the dominant one for sure. but they are both really cute and sweet.... and good news is that anti fungal shampoo seems to be working, their skin is a lot better hardly any scurfing at all now. vet said they look healthy and he is positive that it was a fungal issue. however he did give me a prescription for ivermection if I ever need it. he did tell me that he thinks I'm slightly over feeding them though...a s choco kinda has a belly on him now. so we got mad thumbs up for being good piggy owners.

 

[Wiebke]

Great news! Piggies grow up ever so fast...

The best way to control the diet is by slowly reducing the pellets to about 1 handful (do it too quickly and you will have a riot on your hands) and making sure that you give about 1 cupful of mixed veg per piggy per day; hay is always unlimited. With active piggies the weight will regulate itself, as guinea pigs have a very fast metabolism.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

LOL..well i think the overfeeding part is because I've been giving them stuff to nom on everytime they week at me (which is anytime i open the fridge, rustle a bag, chop something up, stand in the kitchen, turn on the kitchen light...walk thru the room in the direction of the kitchen) |)

And smores has this "high pitched whistle week" and he gets SO LOUD and DEMANDS his noms....

so..even though I'm only giving them "veggie" noms..they are truly getting WAY too much.

I give them half a cup of veggies, unlimited hay (which I usually repelnish at night because they munch more at night on the hay)...and a dixie cup full of pellets .

But I was also givign them the extra's...everytime they so much as wheek.
so..I'm just going to cut back on that.
smores is litterly a hairy ball right now..but vet said..he's just in that inbetween stage where he's thicker rather than longer. he said in a few weeks he'll stretch out and I'll have less of a BALL of fur.
Choco..is strecthed out..but he is a PIG. so...all the things he gets, and then on top of what he STEALS from smores...is adding up to a pudgy piggy.
vet said wasnt bad.
I forget what he said they weighed.But they are both in thier limits for thier age..he just asked me to slow down a tad on choco's wieght..cause it was getting close to the over part.

I'm going to slow down on the noms..and we should be good.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

I think I'll record thier wheekantrums for the vet thou...lol

 

[AndreaJane]

If you want to give them something when they wheek at you and you know they've already had plenty then try getting a bag of special hay like Burgess excel herbage or something similar.
When they wheek at you just put it in a bowl, the fact that it's a different hay and presented to them in a bowl rather than with their other hay is usually enough to satisfy the most greedy piglet who thinks they've got you wrapped around their little finger.

 

[Smores_n_choco]

If you want to give them something when they wheek at you and you know they've already had plenty then try getting a bag of special hay like Burgess excel herbage or something similar.
When they wheek at you just put it in a bowl, the fact that it's a different hay and presented to them in a bowl rather than with their other hay is usually enough to satisfy the most greedy piglet who thinks they've got you wrapped around their little finger.

That is a great idea , thanku. AS for thinking they have me wrapped...oh dear they KNOW they have me wrapped...lol