Everyone is still getting used to their new home, humans included. Life has certainly been interesting since we moved. Some highlights have been arriving at five in the afternoon on moving day to discover the road was gone. Literally it had become a giant ditch that could destroy our cars at will. So we kind of did an uncontrolled slide down that to our new house and began hoping and praying that the movers would be able to get back up the giant ditch once they'd unpacked.
Then we've had major storms, water pouring in through the roof, a mould coated guest room... the list goes on.
Anyway the animal room is up and running, though still not the prettiest site. And I've begun bonding with my new darlings.
Weight wise all four pretties are worrying me. Fortinbras is as least 200g below what he should be, having just reached 300g at eight weeks old. Feather too has a lot of catching up to do, he's coming up to six months old but is only 700g. They are however eating a lot, and drinking a lot. They are amazing poop machines. Feather has great condition even if he is a bit skinny but Fortinbras is well funny shaped. He's got a lovely fat belly and butt and the skinniest shoulders you've ever seen. Both of them have white tummies and butts and have worked really hard to turn them yellow *sigh*.
Because of this I've just placed an order at Clipper World for their alpha white stain removing shampoo and their ultimate shampoo. Hopefully I'll be able to return the boys to sparkling whiteness by February.
Ebby's doing well, for her I'm hoping I'll be able to keep her at the 820ish grams she's sitting at now over Summer. She was getting daily exercise running around the floor of the animal room for an hour or so but she's discovered she can fit in the 4cm gap below the banks so that activity has stopped. I do have a 2m grass cage for her but the torrential down pours have turned our 'yard' into a lake, we've got a plumber/handyman coming on Monday to dig a trench to drain it. Eventually she'll move into the eight foot sow run as well which should help keep her slim. but that still needs to be painted. And I currently don't have $150 to spend on paint, I'm hoping next Monday (payday) I'll be able to pay for it since I've now bought all the Christmas gifts etc. Ebbi's a lovely animal though, so active and full of personality. Her coat is amazing as well. I'm using her as a practice animal, since she's clipped it doesn't matter if I ruin her coat again. We might even try wraps in a month or so. Once February comes round though she'll be clipped off and placed with Eddie. I'm hoping if I breed Eddie at four months old his coat might stay in tact for the show season. If not well I'll wrap him anyway and show him in the pet class.
Eddie is also doing well. I'm proud to say that in the two weeks I've had him I haven't ruined his coat, yet. I need to remember to hit him with the blow dryer before I comb him out, which I tend to forget. I'm trying to keep combing minimal to a quick thirty seconds go over once a day with the metal detangler comb (rotating pins are a god send). He's also started learning how to sit pretty on a show board. I'm in love with his colouring the stripes are sooo adorable. And his coat seems lovely and dense and crinkly. He's six weeks old now so we'll see if he and I make it to February. He's a tad light on as well and should probably be a 100g heavier but we'll see, his mother seems to be a more dainty delicate sized cavy so maybe Eddie is to.
Show wise my current goal is the Summer show on the 12th of February. I'd like to enter Eddie in The Texel Class (No. 50) and Feather in Members Pets (No. 53). I'm still not sure about Fortinbras. If he's grown out of his scrawny scrappy stage and has a decent coat I may enter him in the Sheba class. If not I might take him along and get a few peoples opinions on him. He has great lineage and amazing type, so I'm half toying with breeding either him or Feather and having a go at showing some shebas. I have a feeling showable shebas need constant attention from the day dot to get them to the show table in one piece.
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