The Sorting Hat of Guinea Pigs
I really love my guinea pig farming experiment. Today, it is the once monthly sort, in which young males get moved to the male cage (they have fertility after 3 weeks!), […]
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Cinnamon had Babies
We are just raining in Ron’s babies right now! Cinnamon had a total of four, but one of them was twice the size and didn’t survive the birth. The other […]
Charcoal had Babies!
What is it with Charcoal (who is black with a bit of white markings) and producing gorgeous babies! In her last set, she had Coco, an amazing brown creature. I […]
Butters Had Babies!
Yesterday, I lost one of the two piggies that got super wet. It was the one that still had slight breath crackling. It was fine outside for a little while, […]
Bring on the Ark!
It rained a lot yesterday, but when I checked the pigs in the back yard last night, the ground was fairly dry in the pen. I put in some straw […]
Graphic Guinea Pigs
I spent the night last nigh resorting my guinea pigs. Since all of the females that I got from VA had their babies, it was time to rebreed. One of […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Boars from VA
And, the final set of pigs I got from VA. The big boars. He is the reason that the babies are super creepy and albino. I really like this guys […]
Incubation On!!!
So, I managed to rewire the incubator once I got the new temperature regulator device. Who’s ready to set some coturnix quail eggs? I got 120 eggs off eBay for […]
We have babies!
Well, trying to count her babies was a difficult process. Needed to do it so I could remove the dead. She had five babies that I found so far, two […]
Spytfyre is in Labor
Originally, she would charge me every time I would stick my hand in the cage (seriously, I was kinda scared). Now, she has become accustomed to my hand feedings of […]
Cinnamon & Twist
And, another few females off Craigslist. They are mostly white, with bits of tan and brown. Cinnamon has a tan butt and brown face. Both are a little over a […]
The loss of Oxy
Usually, when I lose a Guinea Pig, I understand why. Guinea Pig diagnostics are tough, they don’t show any sign of illness until they drop dead. Symptoms of upper respitory […]
Got Some Boy Piggies
Well, i finally managed to catch Pop!!! That only took 4 days. Had to buy a metal trap. She and the other two young females have been moved to another […]
The Exodus, and Four More Female Piggies
Monday, when i was at work, there was a guinea pig exodus. I placed the cage in the long grass, but was unaware of the hole that was perfectly aligned […]
Introducing Darke
This is a breeding ready doe that is about 1 year of age. She is a bit smaller and a bit darker than Spitfyre. So, she will be known as […]
Germinating Pumpkins!
Well… The awesome pictures that I got from the installation of PRS nutrient probes (more on these later) and nutrient sampling with my interns Karyn and Bella went into the […]
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