[Gpdd] Announcing Happiness!! New piggies. Lisa and Terry.

[Penny Charlesworth]

Lisa,
Welcome to your lovely new piggy, Camdyn Rose. Thank you for sharing all 
your wonderful pigtures!!

I have been lucky enough to have rescued several pregnant sows at various 
times and have had the joy of seeing many baby piggies running around. They 
are so energetic and noisy and seem like a completely different species.

I recently took in a pair of babies and housed them with one of my older 
sows, Pansy, who had lost her lifelong companion, Pearl. Pansy started 
bouncing around with the babies and seemed years younger. It really cheered 
her up.

To Terry,

Congratulations on you new little family! You can pick them up right away. 
The more you handle them, the tamer they will become. Mum won't mind at all.

You must separate the boys from the girls as soon as they are weaned.- about 
3 weeks.The boys are quite capable of mating with their mother at this age!

In my Cavies Castle calendar, which has pigtures and stories of their 
various patients, is the following story - With a pigture of Smudge it says 
"Warning!!! This delightful little chap is the result of a just under four 
week old baby boar showing too much interest in his mother. She had 7 babies 
in her original litter, but then had Smudge and 5 siblings on her second 
unplanned second pregnancy. So be warned!!!"

You could end up with a lot of piggies!! If you are unsure about sexing them 
yourself, get expert advice. It is easy to make a mistake when you are not 
used to doing it. You don't want to be overrun with piggies ( and it is bad 
for mum too!)

Good luck with your babes.

It is great to read some good news after so much sadness.

Penny and the Piggyfriends.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Folly Farm" <lfolly at sbcglobal.net>
To: <gpdd at gpdd.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2006 4:52 AM
Subject: [Gpdd] Announcing Happiness!! New piggie!!!


Hi gpdders!

We're so exicted!  We adopted a new piggie last weekend.  She is the 
youngest baby we've ever adopted at 5 weeks.  We named her Camdyn Rose.  You 
can see her, (as well as our other 6 piggies) at: 
http://s111.photobucket.com/albums/n148/guineagirl_2006/  There is one photo 
of her on the top row and 4 on the 3rd row.  She is a beautiful, little, 
mostly chocolate abby with red & white, and VERY vocal, even when she's just 
trotting around.  Even though she got a clean bill of health from our vet, 
apart from a couple of brief photos she is isolated to her own pen for the 
next couple of weeks before living with the rest of the herd.  We can't wait 
for them to all be together!  Yippie!   It's lovely have a little baby, it 
seems like all of our other pigs are acting younger again!?

Our hearts go out to all of you who have lost your beloved little pigs. ) - 
:  I can't even imagine how bad you must feel.   So sorry.

Lisa Stanley (and mostly converted slave husband, Matt)
& their herd:  Brody, Keely, Shayla, Genevyeve, Bronwyn, Delaney & Camdyn