So Ebbie has returned to the land of breeding condition. Her new 'regime' involves a diet of unlimited lucerne hay, unlimited chaff and hefty amounts of grass and veggies. The real 'secret' though is her runs. She now gets two hours a day on the animal room floor while Lu is locked in his cage. With all the different interesting areas to play in and things to scramble over and under she stays extremely active. And of course she has to do mad runs around the room popocorning wildly. So she's now sitting at just over a kg but feels like she's in good condition, not too fat but quite fit.
Everyone else seems to also be benefiting from my tweaking their diet. Edmund is at the very comfortable weight of 660g. He's quite a hefty pig actually considering he's only three months old.
Feather is seven months old today and is up to 890g. He's still lightweight but he hasn't gone backwards at least, he's been gaining at the same rate as Eddie has. So hopefully he'll eventually hit a proper weight of about 1200g. I do want to show him in pet classes so would like him to be a bit heftier.
Fortinbras is now at 560g so is gaining okay but at three and half a months old I'd like him to be bigger. I've also discovered he has a dropped shoulder coat so he won't be attending any pet classes. I'm hoping it'll grow back in by the time he's an adult but am not sure. This also means that I won't be breeding him. I've been toying with breeding a couple of sheba litters maybe next year or the year after but I'll use Feather if I do, he has a magnificent coat and fantastic colouring. But we'll see, it depends on how the sheba standard progresses.
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