We have had our girls ten days now.
I can honestly say I don't know what we did without them. x)x)
We got four girls from Becklen, and a big thank you to Becky , Hels and Nutmeg, who all looked after them. You did a great job!
The girls were introduced for us by Becky, and they get on brilliantly.
We have (more pictures later as still having trouble getting the pictures into the computer):
Berry - tricolour shorthair.
Bramble - black rex.
Nettle - agouti cutie with lemony stripes and lovely pale tummy.
Daisy - Agouti rex with a lemony stipe and a lovely lemony bloth on the nose.
They have been in their new cage since they got here and seem to love it.
Berry was the first to try the ramps, and she also seems to be the boss lady of the herd.
Soon all were tempted up into the hayloft for tea and breakfast of lovely salad prepared every day by daughter number one.
They have been in their corral (5 grids x 3) whcih they access through a door at the bottom of their cage, and seem to love it. We got them lots of waffle block houses from Equine Canine Feline which are great as they can be adapted and changed around with lots of doors to get in and out.
Nettle seems to be the liveliest and regularly does mad gallops round the cage and up and down the ramps - althought they all do this at least once a day.
Bramble is the eatingest - as is to be found wherever there is food. She is also now letting us stroke her in the cage.
Berry is by far the wriggliest, and the most adventurous.
Daisy is the sweetest awww! and Nettle is the maddest
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They are all wheeking like mad and seem to be able to tell the time.
Daughter number one gives them a "snack" at about ten to four when she gets in from school - on Sunday afternoon at ten to four there was an almighty chorus of urgent wheeks! They were all lined up in the hayloft shouting their little lungs out!
|)
We have weighed them and daisy has put on a little bit - which did not surprise me as she spent a lot of the first week hiding and we had to make sure the bowl of veggies was next to her waffle houses to get her to eat.
This week however she has been tucking in with a vengeance and looks a lot livelier.
The others put on rather a lot - which I think is due to daughter number one who confessed on Sunday that the snack was actually more like a whole meal - so they were on three big bowls of veggies a day, pellets and unlimited hay!
She has cut down the four o'clock snack a bt this week to more reasonable proportions, so they shouldn't end up like furry footballs. They are also all running around a lot more on the two main levels and in the run.
Anyway - that is the update for now - sorry if it was longwinded and I will get some pictures up soon I promise - I have loads but I can't get them off the camera onto the computer at the moment.
I can honestly say I don't know what we did without them. x)x)
We got four girls from Becklen, and a big thank you to Becky , Hels and Nutmeg, who all looked after them. You did a great job!
The girls were introduced for us by Becky, and they get on brilliantly.
We have (more pictures later as still having trouble getting the pictures into the computer):
Berry - tricolour shorthair.
Bramble - black rex.
Nettle - agouti cutie with lemony stripes and lovely pale tummy.
Daisy - Agouti rex with a lemony stipe and a lovely lemony bloth on the nose.
They have been in their new cage since they got here and seem to love it.
Berry was the first to try the ramps, and she also seems to be the boss lady of the herd.
Soon all were tempted up into the hayloft for tea and breakfast of lovely salad prepared every day by daughter number one.
They have been in their corral (5 grids x 3) whcih they access through a door at the bottom of their cage, and seem to love it. We got them lots of waffle block houses from Equine Canine Feline which are great as they can be adapted and changed around with lots of doors to get in and out.
Nettle seems to be the liveliest and regularly does mad gallops round the cage and up and down the ramps - althought they all do this at least once a day.
Bramble is the eatingest - as is to be found wherever there is food. She is also now letting us stroke her in the cage.
Berry is by far the wriggliest, and the most adventurous.
Daisy is the sweetest awww! and Nettle is the maddest
.They are all wheeking like mad and seem to be able to tell the time.
Daughter number one gives them a "snack" at about ten to four when she gets in from school - on Sunday afternoon at ten to four there was an almighty chorus of urgent wheeks! They were all lined up in the hayloft shouting their little lungs out!
|) We have weighed them and daisy has put on a little bit - which did not surprise me as she spent a lot of the first week hiding and we had to make sure the bowl of veggies was next to her waffle houses to get her to eat.
This week however she has been tucking in with a vengeance and looks a lot livelier.
The others put on rather a lot - which I think is due to daughter number one who confessed on Sunday that the snack was actually more like a whole meal - so they were on three big bowls of veggies a day, pellets and unlimited hay!
She has cut down the four o'clock snack a bt this week to more reasonable proportions, so they shouldn't end up like furry footballs. They are also all running around a lot more on the two main levels and in the run.
Anyway - that is the update for now - sorry if it was longwinded and I will get some pictures up soon I promise - I have loads but I can't get them off the camera onto the computer at the moment.
