Eeek

Well I forgot the painter was coming to do the house. Which basically means all the animals have to remain locked in their cages without much one on one time to keep them safe from the fumes. I'm also allergic to said fumes so have to be out of the house most of day.

Which basically leads to cranky human, cranky parrots, cranky bunny and cranky Ebbie. So far I've witnessed four tantrums from Atticus, five tantrums from Echo (his human, my mother is also out of town so the poor boy's lonely) and two absolutely spectacular tantrums courtesy of Luther. I had no idea bunnies could flip themselves on their backs. Even Ebbie now attempts kamikaze dives every time I open her cage. Clearly they all want their free range privileges back. Unfortunately that won;t be for a while. Though hopefully the guy will finish the area outside the animal room soon so I can set the pet gate back up and at least let Lu and Ebbie out.

But it does mean Ebbies going without her exercise which worries me. She does live in an eight foot cage but her mission is life seems to be to become the laziest sod that ever lived so she's not exactly moving. But she is still drinking her glucose water and she gets 0.5ml of calcium sandoz syrup daily so that's something.

Weight wise she had a bit of a weird up by 20g down by 20g thing happening for three days but we're now back to a gain of 20g every day.

Babies are still moving as well. Her left side seems to be emptier then the right but I can still movement there, though it's not as frequent as the other side so I 'think' there's only one baby on that side. The right side is very full and solid and has much more frequent movement all over so I think there's probably a couple of babies in there.

I really really need at least two babies from Ebbie and one has to be a sow, so Ebbie can be retired. If she give me two babies I can use the sow for breeding and have a new show pig as Eddie is also ready to be retired to the breeding pen. We're doing better at this wrapping gig though. Still plenty of wispy broken hairs but the majority of his coat is intact which makes me very happy. For my first go I am very proud of Eddie, even with all the issues we've had.

Changing to fleece wrappers has almost entirely stopped the freak outs he was doing. He still can;t bear me parting the hair over his hips and will scream about it and occasionally roll as I try to get the partings in for the butt wrapper but after that he's pretty good. He does occasionally kick at the side wrappers as they go in but once the hair tie is on he forgets they exist.