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pammyj said:
18 weeks old

Belle - 695g (95g in 4 weeks) :(
Tinka - 680g (110g in 4 weeks)
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Sorry havent been around lately, weighed piggies last week

21 weeks

Belle - 820g
Tinka - 805g

coming on nicely hopefully
 
Weighed my piggies last week, I haven't got around to it this week yet rolleyes

Branston: 1100g (week before 1100g)

Junior: 475g (week before 425g)

Rodney: 1075g (week before 1025g)

Delboy: 1025g (week before 975g)
 
Bad piggy Mum I forgot to weigh or write down Novembers and early Dec weight checks.

Just done them today

Melvin - 1195g (lost a little)
Parsnip - 1235g (lost a little)
Little Monty - 890g (lost a lot)

Monty keeps losing weight, he will be 6 soon so now an elderly guinea - he eats loads and drinks well. If he loses much more I shall have to start feeding him up a bit more with critical care.

Think Monty's weigh in will move to a weekly slot, want to monitor his weight more now.

Anyone know what the average weight is for an elderly piggy?

Vets just say its normal to lose weight age wise.
 
what do you weight them on?
obviously a scale.
But what would you suggest.
I was told to weight them every day - is that normal?
If so why?
 
We use our kitchen scales SnookiAND peanut

Latest weights for the living room piggies:

Gertie: 1674g
Johnny: 1376g (he's lost a lot of weight which we are looking into with a cavy savy vet and rodentologist)
Millie: 1251g
Jessica: still to be weighed, plonked her in the bath and forgot to weigh her before lol
Maddie: 1070g
Izzie: 963g
Honey: same as Jess but last weight was 1164g
Star: 832g

Buzz: 1338g
 
Lexi (1.5 years)= 1170g
Indy (4 years)= 1160g
Munchkin (2 years)= 1140g
Freya (1.5 years)= 1100g
Pumpkin (2 years)= 990g
Archie (7 months)= 870g
 
Fry (1.5 years) - 1,009g
Nibbler (1.5 years) - 819g - He's got a UTI/possibly stones at the moment so we're battling to get his weight back up

Sneezy (1 year 4 months) - 1,265g
Patch (1 year 4 months) - 1,219g
 
Shellza said:
Lexi (1.5 years)= 1170g
Indy (4 years)= 1160g
Munchkin (2 years)= 1140g
Freya (1.5 years)= 1100g
Pumpkin (2 years)= 990g
Archie (7 months)= 870g
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I'm keeping a close eye on Archie because he doesn't seem to be eating as much as usual. His weight now is 863g.
 
Lexi- 1210g (40g increase :o)
Munchkin- 1130g (10g loss)
Indy- 1050g (110g loss...have to keep an eye on him, but may have calculated wrong first time)
Pumpkin-1000g (10g increase)
Archie- 886g (20g increase)
 
Lexi- 1188g (lost 22g)
Munchkin- 1129g (1g loss)
Indy- 984g (66g lost...should I worry about this? He does have dental issues)
Freya- 1093g
Pumpkin- 1022g (20g gain)
Archie- 927g (gained 41g)
 
Indy does seem to be steadily loosing weight.

You say he has dental issues - how bad is this?
 
Yeah, I'm trying to keep an eye on him as he isn't mine so I don't really know details. I'm going to contact his owner and suggest treatment as it's starting to worry me. He is still eating fine, but he's lost around 90g in a month :o. I know he had his first treatment just before he came to me, which was January. I don't know how often treatment needs doing, but I think he needs it now.
 
Weighed both of mine today, had to use normal bathroom scales so not sure how accurate the weight is. Will have to get some kitchen scales.

Basil - 800g

Elvis - 800g

Both weigh exactly the same. They are both just coming up to a year old, are they underweight?

Obviously they were from a rescue and previously neglected. Wish I had weighed them when I first got them cos they have definately put weight on since i've had them.
 
My girls are due another weighing, but my current records:

Nelson - 1.222g
Freddie - 1.108g (he lost a bit, so we're keeping a close eye)

Amy - 778g
Ace - 706g
River - 787g

Elphie - 420g
Glinda - 416g

In age order :))
 
mellyb said:
Weighed both of mine today, had to use normal bathroom scales so not sure how accurate the weight is. Will have to get some kitchen scales.

Basil - 800g

Elvis - 800g

Both weigh exactly the same. They are both just coming up to a year old, are they underweight?

Obviously they were from a rescue and previously neglected. Wish I had weighed them when I first got them cos they have definately put weight on since i've had them.
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According to most reference books, they are 100g underweight so they could do with putting some more on, but I wouldn't be too concerned as they aren't a year old yet. A healthy fullsize pig is about 1kg.

What kind of build are they?
 
I'd say Basil was sort of medium build and Elvis probably slightly smaller build. I think :)) I was expecting Basil to be heavier as he "looks" bigger but I guess you can't always go on looks. It might also be the scales, think i'll get some kitchen ones tomorrow and weigh them again.
 
Previous post with weights to be ignored, I weighed them on a rug in the front room and it has unbalanced the scales. Weighed myself in the same place and it said I was 7st 5lb, I weigh 8st 9lb :))
 
mellyb said:
Previous post with weights to be ignored, I weighed them on a rug in the front room and it has unbalanced the scales. Weighed myself in the same place and it said I was 7st 5lb, I weigh 8st 9lb :))
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Ah thats good, so they weight more then? :)) Always weigh on a hard, flat surface. Another tip is weight an object whose weight is unlikely to change, write the weight on it, and then weigh again every now and then to check your scales.



Right, my girls latest weights:
Amy: 835g
Ace: 802g
River: 888g

Glinda: 780g (fatty!)
Elphie: 640g


I was expecting both Elphie and Glinda to be around the 600-650g mark, but Glinda is waaay off, little fatty. They're both about 4 months - who is the more ideal weight? Do I need to 'fatten up' Elphie? Elphie is the smaller build, so I'm not too concerned at the moment but there is quite a difference in their weights (had to weight Glinda three times, as well as River, just to check it was right!)

The surprising thing with River is that she was the runt of the litter when we adopted her - she was so small compared to Amy and Ace (it took her a while to grow into her face and feet) but now she's the biggest!
 
Right, lets try again!

Elvis is a year old on Easter and Basil is approx a year old in May, both weigh the same.

Elvis 907g

Basil 907g
 
Sounds like they're coming along nicely! :))
 
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