Feather & Fun with Babies

We are now at 44 hours post surgery and all is well. Feather's still not so big on drinking water but he is eating. Of course he's being picky about what he eats (grass must be freshly picked, if its even slightly wilted he won't touch it etc) but he's eating. We're out of the danger period now so it should just be onwards and upwards for my boy. He has to spend 12 more days confined though, which if he keeps improving will send him stir crazy pretty quickly.

But new developments have occurred at Samsara Caviary. No, Ayanna didn't have the shortest pregnancy of all time. But the vets did ring yesterday to ask if I could take on three two day old babies who had been dumped there. So I of course said yes, as far as I know there aren't any breeders in the area so I was really it. The babies are quite sweet, all sows. They are all very tiny two are 62g and one is 72g. They are showing a lot of interest in solids so I'm trying to get them on to that as quickly as possible as I always stress about aspiration when I feed babies. Ebbie has adopted them and is doing all the motherly duties apart from feeding. She keeps stacking them in the food bowl so she's trying to feed them in her own way LOL. They are very cute little ones. The biggest one is a slate agouti tricolour ridgeback, seriously, I've never even seen a slate agouti in real life before but this girl is definitely a slate agouti. Then of the other two one is a golden agouti tricolour and the other is a slate agouti tricolour. All have reversed hair on their feet so must come from abby/ridgeback/peruvian/sheba background.

So I'm still on endless rounds of handfeeding but it should hopefully tail off. I've spent the last two nights sitting up with Feather and then last night the babies needed hourly feeds as well. So I am very much looking forward to actual sleep.

I still have various things that I have to do as well, as everything's been put aside while I dealt with Feather. But I have a show in just eight days. This weekend I need to finish my Australian Guide to Cavy Illness so I can bring a draft copy with me to the show to get some opinions/critiques. Rosie MUST be groomed and bathed this weekend and I need to start grooming La-La. I need to finish sorting out my fancy dress entry but I may have to skip the decorated carry cage competition. I was going to use a pink basket but if I still need to feed the babies I'll have to take the four berth carrier instead. My uni work is also piling up.