Let's see, this weekend is devoted to writing an Indigenous Law take home exam and studying for my Psychology exam which is Tuesday morning. Then straight after the exam I need to head out to the shops and buy some much needed feed as well as miscellanea items for my trip. Wednesday we have a power interruption so we're spending the day out, Thursday I pack and Friday I clean all the cages out and then sale down the mountain for my five day 'holiday'.
In between this La-La needs to be groomed which normally involves a week of work, Lu-Lu the rabbit is moving from being partly caged to fully free range and is having constant arguments with me over where his litterpan should go and I somehow need to sort five days of food out. I'm one of those annoying people who is vegetarian, gluten free, lactose intolerant and with an allergy to citric acid. So basically it's homecooked or I don't eat.
I also have a lot of sewing piling up. Although the cages are at a functional level all with their own set of incontinence pads and vetbed or fleece pads (except for the girls). I have about ten more cozies to make so they don't freeze this winter, Eddie has yet again grown out of his fleece wrappers so I need to make him a new set as well and I still haven't made the bedding for the new carry cages.
Oh and to add insult to injury we have a mice and rat problem at the moment.
So life is hectic but we are steadily getting there. I always have these grand plans but I then need to actually do them which is the hard bit. Now that Lu's moved out of his cage (like he was using it anyway) I can convert it into two 120cm x 76cm cages. But I don't actually need two more cages at the moment. I am hoping that these next three planned litters work, which would then mean I might just need the cages... I hope.
But since I'm seriously avoiding study I thought I'd also add some pics of the cage system at the moment. Currently I have two 'banks' running.
Firstly the one I bought initially with two pet store cages on top (with fleece, incontinence pad and cotton cage pads) and then the girls eight foot run (still on kitty litter at the mo, will switch over to vetbed when/if I ever have four + girls in there) and the two four foot cages (both purple vetbed and chino care incontinence pads).
Then I have the new boar tower, which will be mainly for show boars and breeding boars. I really like this actually, it's three medium dog crates stacked and zip tied together with corflute bases. Eventually the boys will all get a second floor to jump on and off to give them lots of nice muscles. The bedding here is dark blue vet bed with Safe n Dry Incontinence Pads.
Laertes shows off his new digs...
And Feather and Fortinbras studiously ignore me...
What isn't shown in these pictures is my awesome new hayrack system designed to function with the vetbed and give the pigs 24/7 access to hay and prevent me from being driven insane trying to get the stuff back off the bedding. But I will show that in another post. But rest assured, all my babies have constant access to hay.
Long term cage plans are still fairly similar. I still instead to add another level of wooden cages to the big bank to create four small cages for show longhairs. Then I'm still toying with the idea of another tower for boys. Plus I'll convert Lu's cage and might buy another given me four 120 x 76cm cages.
All up that'll give me 10 'single size' cages for my crotchety boys and show longhairs, two 120 x 60cm cages, one 240cm x 60cm cage and four 120cm x 76cm cages. Which should provide me with more then enough room for a small stud with a max capacity of about 35.
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