Three More Baby Piggies
So, lucky for me, one of my black sows was ready to pop! She had three cute little babies. A black and white Dutch colored baby, an orangish baby, and […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
And More Baby Guinea Pigs
Well, this doesn’t make up for the rabbit and quail losses, which I am still reeling about. But, it does help with the whole, “Life Goes On” thing… This lovely […]
Bad Day on the Homestead
So, I went back up to WI where i came from on Thursday. I get a phone call that night that momma bunny and her two babies had died sometime […]
Poor Fluffy
So, apparently Reba was actually Ron!!! Did I bother checking?!? No, I don’t know why I didn’t, but every other person on craigslist was correct on guinea pig sex… Anyways, […]
Charcoal has returned!
Well, I was out doing some agility work with my dogs, and I see a black Guinea pig hanging out on the other side of the fence, hanging out and […]
The Great Composting Quail
So, I found adult, egg laying quail for $3 per bird. So I got 14 quail. 7 Texas A&M quail (5 females, 2 males), and seven of the Pharaoh quail […]
Missing Charcoal!
Sometime Wednesday, Charcoal went missing. Sneaked under the wooden side of the Guinea pig tractor through a hole. She was one of the only pigs that I had that carried […]
Two crop failures….
So, this year has been an awful year for Downey mildew in NC. The sorghum failed because it stopped raining, and the pumpkins were a casualty of mildew. I planted […]
I am an Idiot, Part 2
Well, I am an idiot! Because the temperatures in the incubator was a bit high, I went to put the incubator on lockdown, and a bunch of eggs had already […]
My Screw Up and New Babies!
So, last week, I had my doctoral oral prelims. So, I didn’t get a chance to blog about the twelve new guinea pig babies that I had in the last […]
Daily dose of Cute!
Well, two babies are left out of seven! But, they are out of the nestbox with their eyes open. I really enjoy watching them flip onto their backs to follow […]
New Does
Yesterday, I got 5 breeding age does off craigslist for $30 total!!! (That is a reasonable per rabbit price around here). Syren is a 6 month old American Chinchilla. The […]
Hatching!
Well, I think that the temp was a bit high in the incubator, as the eggs were supposed to go into lockdown today. But, low and behold, I walk in […]
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