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emellertid

emellertid

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So my trio of piggies arrived today at 5pm (Finland time): Julia and Nina (actually named Janeway, but Nina is easier for my 6-year-old to pronounce - we’re Swedish speaking) are sisters and 5 weeks old, and Uffe is a (slightly overweight) 3-year-old neutered guy who needed a new home. For five hours all they did was sit cooped up together in the smallest hidey house, but at about 10pm they ventured out:


I wasn’t able to take photos yet, because they were busy and kept moving around and I wanted to leave them to it, but needless to say, I’m so happy and they are the most adorable little creatures I’ve ever seen. :love:

Ps. First time uploading anything on youtube and posting a video here on the forum, hopefully I did it right. :blink:
 
Aww. They’re all adorable. And I especially love Uffe :love:(got a soft spot for white piggies) :wub:
 
Julie M said:
Aww. They’re all adorable. And I especially love Uffe :love:(got a soft spot for white piggies) :wub:
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Thank you! I love him too. He has something with his eyes, I think it’s called fatty eye or pea eye, but I was told it’s not harmful. Hope the girls provide him good company and keep him active a little! :)
 
Flutterby said:
Congrats! They will soon settle given time :)
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Yeah, they seem to be doing alright. Food gets eaten, even when there’s some activity around the cage. The two baby girls are more skittish, but Uffe seems pretty comfortable already. I’m trying to leave them to themselves and spot clean poops in the places where they’re not hanging out at the moment. :)

None of them seem interested in the ramp + loft though, despite my attempt to leave a trail of cilantro bits there. :hmm:
 
emellertid said:
How can you tell that they’ve settled, by the way? When they no longer leap into a hidey as soon as you approach?
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Yes. They will settle soon. And then you won’t get any peace to eat any items that rustle like a bag of crisps. Lol. “Wheek wheek wheek” :nod:
 
Julie M said:
Yes. They will settle soon. And then you won’t get any peace to eat any items that rustle like a bag of crisps. Lol. “Wheek wheek wheek” :nod:
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Haha ooh yeah, I opened a bag of these corn doodle things my toddler gets as a small snack sometimes, and there was immediately wheek-wheeking from the cage. I was like ”HOW do they know there’s something edible in here” :lol:
 
emellertid said:
So my trio of piggies arrived today at 5pm (Finland time): Julia and Nina (actually named Janeway, but Nina is easier for my 6-year-old to pronounce - we’re Swedish speaking) are sisters and 5 weeks old, and Uffe is a (slightly overweight) 3-year-old neutered guy who needed a new home. For five hours all they did was sit cooped up together in the smallest hidey house, but at about 10pm they ventured out:


I wasn’t able to take photos yet, because they were busy and kept moving around and I wanted to leave them to it, but needless to say, I’m so happy and they are the most adorable little creatures I’ve ever seen. :love:

Ps. First time uploading anything on youtube and posting a video here on the forum, hopefully I did it right. :blink:
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What an amazing set up you have for them! I'm jealous. I wish I could give my pigs that much space.

Your baby pigs will probably be pretty skittish for a good couple of months. Bonnie has taken a full year to tame and she was an adult when we got her. But she is a big scaredy-pig and the bottom of the pecking order so that might effect things
 
BlueBird said:
What an amazing set up you have for them! I'm jealous. I wish I could give my pigs that much space.

Your baby pigs will probably be pretty skittish for a good couple of months. Bonnie has taken a full year to tame and she was an adult when we got her. But she is a big scaredy-pig and the bottom of the pecking order so that might effect things
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Thank you so much! Ha, this is the corner where my children’s dad used to have his desk and work space. When he left us, I kept the desk, added another table, and built a guinea pig home on it. He’s not getting the desk back. :own:

I think one of my little ones may be a little like your Bonnie! (What a lovely name, by the way) Uffe and Nina are comfortable enough to keep eating if they’re by the food bowls and you walk past the cage, but Julia will run and hide immediately. Uffe and Nina also seem to have bonded more, they nap in the same house often, and Julia is in another hidey. She’s not getting picked on or anything, I haven’t witnessed any obvious or agressive dominance behavior, she just seems a little shy and on her own at the moment.
 
Betsy said:
Piggies are appetites with fur according to @Merab's Slave and are forever hopeful that food is going to arrive!
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Haha I’m beginning to notice! There’s always happy noises when I refill their hay or put in veggies. They won’t take food from my hand yet (girls run off, Uffe just looks at it). I left a trail of cilantro pieces up the ramp to the loft, to help them discover it, and this morning most of them (except the top one on the loft) was gone, so someone was brave enough to try the ramp out a little during the night. Food seems like the best bribe! :D
 
How often do you do health checks? Check nails and weight and such. They visited a vet on Thursday before they moved in, and their previous owner cut the girls’ nails here to show me how to do it. Should I wait until next Thursday to try to look them over?
I’ve been a little worried that not much water seems to be disappearing from their bottle, but none of them seem lethargic or weak.
 
Oh also, I've been feeding them about 120 grams of mixed veggies a day (split into two meal times) - 50 g for Uffe and 35 g each for the little ones (I use two veggie bowls, one for the girls and one for Uffe, because he's bigger and doesn't leave the food to hide if you walk past, and I don't want him to hog all the food). There's always a pellet bowl and lots of hay.
Does that sound about right?
(Sorry, lots of beginner questions! :doh:)
 
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