Ebbie is crossing her legs and holding on for dear life from the looks of it. At 1500g she is enormous, yet won't give up the goods. Today she's officially 65 days gone, her pelvic bones have been open for 7 days, babies have been grinding for 7 days and yesterday they dropped into the birthing position. So something's gotta happen soon!
I've been busy with various other cavy related things as well though. Gosford Show is this Sunday which means grooming, grooming, grooming! Edmund is pretty much the same but he gets an extra good comb out on his belly three weeks before to remove any matts building up in those curls. Sterling has been ever so carefully combed, hair by hair making sure there's no knots in his uber thick coat. After the Gosford Show I'll cut all his locks off again as it's a hassle keeping him knot free when he's not used to constant grooming. Laertes has been the most labour intensive. I stripped the guard hairs out of his coat last Thursday and I'm grooming him for at least thirty minutes a day until the show. This involves meticulously picking the white hairs out of the black and the black out of the white till he's nice and defined.
My other main consideration is caging. Now that Ebbie's babies are due it's time for Eddie, Sterling and La-La to move out of the grow out cages and into boar quarters. Since I don't actually own boar quarters I've been shopping. I was originally going to build a bank of three 60 x 60 cages but realised that costs twice as much as buying dog crates that are 76cm x 52cm. They give the same floor space but only cost $140 and can be converted into two levels per cage. I have an excellent supply of corflute so I think I'll go ahead and buy the dog crates and make deep corflute trays for them. I can easily ziptie the dog crates into a tower and add fleece around two sides to give it solid sides.
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