I got home rather late yesterday from the Christmas in July show. Had a blast at the show, though I didn't win anything. As always I have a lot to post so I'll try to stick to a summary.
Firstly the show, this time round I stayed with another stud who were absolutely brilliant, it was great to spend time with someone else has obsessed with cavies as I am. Plus we carpooled to the show which was even better. Laertes got best Junior Black Dalmatian but got beaten by the same drool worthy sow who I now know is CH Piggily Rosalie (thanks Cavy Capers!). Eddie went into the pet class and got second place. I was surprised he even placed, he'd managed to pee all over his stomach seconds before the class began. Eddie was also entered as a Christmas Pudding in fancy dress and placed second to an elf. Rosie went into the rex class as I was hoping for a judges comment. Didn't get one unfortunately but a few breeders looked her over for me. Basically she is still soft, though not as soft as she was, but she is incredibly dense. She's also one of the few rex sows around who's in breeding condition. So I've left her at a stud with a nice golden agouti rex boar (he won BOB on the day) and I'll collect her in a few weeks. I'll keep one baby from the litter, probably a boar and the rest will go to the owner of the boar. Hopefully that way she'll be able to get some more sows. Lets see the on;y other things I organized at the show are I've ordered a coronet sow from a stud with drool worthy longs, so I can finally get the crests bred into the texel line to create some merinos. Oh and I'm borrowing a gorgeous gold/lilac argente boar for a couple of months to take to the ACA as a representation of true quality. I collect Rosie and the Argente at the next show which is August 5th. I also got several people to review my medical guide (which is finally finished BTW) and got very positive reviews. So it just needs some intensive editing and I'll start selling it at the next show.
Secondly, Feather. I'm at my wits end with him, it doesn't matter what we do his weight keeps dropping. I put him back with Fortinbras last night as my final hope is that a bit of competition and running around might finally stimulate his appetite. He does eat, just never enough. His current lowest weight is 702g. He was 730g this morning so I hope that means that something is working.
Thirdly the babies. Sadly these are now just the baby. Alex went into convulsions a few days ago, Natalie/Tuppence went into convulsions on Saturday. All we have left is Tommi (formally called Dylan). I'm keeping her away from the other pigs just in case whatever killed the other two is contagious. She drinks well and is up to 110g. She prefers a water bottle filled with divetelec to a teat bottle which is good. She eats by herself as well so I should be able to wean her soon.
Oh and Fourthly.... Ayanna's preggers! She's only been with Sterling five weeks and from the feel I'd say she's five weeks along. So she's moved in with Ebbie and Nia to wait out her gestation with plenty of activity and food. She was 900g yesterday, a gain of 200g in five weeks.
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