And I weigh in again! (for once!)

I apologize for not doing a weigh in for a while - I've been so busy! Well here is the weigh in for Saturday the 11th of February 2012:

**Boys Pad**

Astro: 910grams (gained 35grams) - 32weeks (8m)
Mika: 725grams (gained 75grams) - 24weeks (6m)


**Girls Palace**

Crumble: 450grams (gained 25grams) - 16weeks (4m)
Cherri: 525grams (gained 45grams) - 16weeks (4m)


Total piggy weight: 2610grams (!) total piggy gain: 180grams

This weigh in was a good weigh in with every-one gaining. Special mention goes out to Mika gaining 75grams! 2610grams is a heavy and my pigs weigh that! Wow! The girls are at the right age to be breed but I don't really intend on breeding them! The consequences of breeding (loosing the bubs and/or mother) are going to be hard and I wont be able to loose those darlings!

BIG BIG BABIES! (well not so much babies any more :P)

After coming back from my holiday two weeks ago (I am very sorry for not doing my blog but I was VERY busy!) I am still really amazed at how big the girls are! Before we went on holiday they looked like this:

A video when they were tiny!

And now, still gorgeous!

And I thought I'd just weigh them to see how much they gained in a month:

**Girls Palace**

Crumble: 425grams (gained 165grams) - 12weeks (3m)
Cherri: 400grams (gained 80grams) - 12weeks (3m)


Total gain: 245grams
Total weight: 825grams

Pretty good month, glad they gained well! :)

A too adorable to be true video

Too cute ;)

Not one but two weigh in deals today! ;)

Oh dear - I am so sorry for not doing last week - ends weigh in! I weighed the pigs then got dragged down with cleaning duties etc! I completely forgot I hadn't put in last weeks weigh in until today! Last week the total weight of my four pigs was 1840grams and the total gain was 130grams! The weigh in for Saturday the 3rd December: (today)

**Boys Pad**

Astro: 850grams (stayed the same) - 21weeks (5m, 1w) - (Astro weighed 850grams last week with a gain of 45grams)
Mika: 575grams (gained 25grams) - 13weeks (3m, 1w) - (Mika weighed 550grams last week with a gain of 25grams)

**Girls Palace**

Cherri: 275grams (gained 45grams) - 7weeks (1m, 3w) - (Cherri weighed 230grams last week with a gain of 30grams)
Crumble: 250grams (gained 40grams) - 7weeks (1m, 3w) - (Crumble weighed 210grams last week with a gain of 30grams)


This week (3rd December 2011) the total gain over my four piggies is 110grams and the total weight over my four piggies is 1950grams! This week was really good - great gains from the girls! Next week we will be hitting 2 kilograms! Astro staying the same was a bit of a surprise to me at first then after a bit of thought I'm pretty sure that it was because he is getting so big and isn't even half a year old! If he starts to drop every week I'll start to get worried but he may just start getting slightly smaller gains - I really don't know whats going to happen! The girls moved into a HUGE cage (by huge I mean bigger than the boys) and they are getting plenty of running/playing space but are slightly skiddish! I have been spending as much time as I can with them - feeling that I should cherish having them so close while they are so little! I also need to inform you that I will not be doing my blog for four weeks while I will be on holiday. Sunday next week we will be leaving to our destination!

Getting to know Cherri and Crumble

After having our two little girls for a week I start to see their attitudes... Cherri is sweet but VERY cheeky (causing a LOT of strife trying to find her because she somehow got out the cage then finding her snuggled up alsleep looking very cosy in a cuddle sack! *sigh*) while Crumble is more curious! Any way it is super duper cute!

I have also been noticing some bickering between the boys - Mika and Astro have claimed spaces of there hutch (cage) and there has been Astro purring and pushing up against Mika for some love and to show dominance but Mika nips him on the head! It could be heat stress, Mika trying his luck for dominant male or could be due to us adopting Cherri and Crumble. I give the boys regular health checks and will continue until seeing signs of vicious fighting and blood then I will seperate the boys a.s.a.p!

Weigh in with new arrivals!

Here is the weigh in for Saturday the 12 of November:

**Boys Pad**

Astro: 775grams (stayed the same) - 18weeks (4m, 2w)
Mika: 460grams (gained 35grams) - 10weeks (2m, 2w)

**Girls Palace**

Cherri: 175grams (first weigh in yet) - 4weeks (1m)
Crumble: 155grams (first weigh in yet) - 4weeks (1m)


Total piggy weight of 1565grams over four piggies, total gain of 35grams! (including the fist weigh in yets and Astro staying the same) What an exciting week, Cherri and Crumble were welcomed into our home and depending on Astro and Mika's behavour (if they start fighting because they might smell girls) Mika might be moving out! So far so good! I'm not that worried about our girls being a bit under weight because I am guessing they were both born as runts at maybe 50 - 60 grams for Crumble and Cherri! Also their mother had died giving birth so they didn't have the most important milk for around a day, maybe longer then the mother that was feeding them died so they couldn't get milk until being given to their mother that is still surviving today, the mother had 11 babies from several different families, (3 more were born today) so it must have been a long queue to get milk! That's my theory any way!

Custard Crumble Pie

Lol - yes, another pig! This is Cherri's sister Custard Crumble Pie, lol - we call her Crumble for short! She is sweet like Custard, has the colours of a Crumble and funny like a friends old guinea pig Pie so that's how I got her name! She is so funny and cute! She is so much easier to photograph than her sister! She arrived at our house and will be living with her sister Cherri in a nice big cage that I can dismantle and make 1-story or 2-story and it was for free in a garage sale so I thought that was a really good deal...

She is such a fluffy bum! She is so sweet! Look how much she has changed since she was a bub, so much more fluff!