The kiddliwinks

Well Hi to my non-existant readers..

Been a bit since my last post. Life has been extroadinarily hectic.

Firstly the Inverell Show... okay I admit I was a bit disappointed, there was almost no interest in the pedigrees. I'm starting to think I should give up on the idea of pedigree shows up here and just stick with the Sydney ones. After all I do move to Canberra at the end of 2014... it's not that far away. But I'm getting info about pigs out there and that is really what matters.

Secondly, Ayanna. She finally gave up the goods and gave birth to an adorable baby boy yesterday. I walked in the door as she had her first contraction and got to watch the whole process from start to finish. It was amazing. He's nice and healthy at 147g and has been christened Samsara Any Other Name. As in "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet". And yes all my longhairs will be named after shakespeare quotations....

I've also become an RSPCA foster carer as well, so a lot has been happening.

Anyway and update on my ... jeepers... seventeen babies.

Chantilly Ayanna seems to be enjoying motherhoood, I gave her an extra dose of calcium considering Any's size but so far she's happy and alert and absolutely gobbling her food.

Chantilly Emmanuel will be returning to his breeder on Sunday. He's an angel when it comes to grooming but I can't help it I just don't like shelties, the mane is just wrong... So I tried it, it didn't work and he can go to someone else who does like shelties and can continue to show him. Not fond of his peonality either, I prefer the more placid texels, shelties always seem so manic.

Ferdinand is one of the new kinda sorta sheba boys I picked up. I didn't want to give Feather anything showable or breed quality as Feather gets upset when his friends are away for even a few minutes. So I adopted two kinda sorta shebas from Sapphire City Cavy Rescue, they are cute rosetted longhair crosses, but kinda sorta sheba sounds like a more interesting breed name. Ferdinand is four months old and is a cream agouti, cream and white boy.

Frederick is the other kinda sorta sheba boy, he's just four weeks old but has had teeth issues so I took him since he couldn't go to a normal pet home. We are hoping he'll grow out of the teeth problems. He's mainly cream and white with a cream agouti face and is Ferdinands half brother.

Pebbles is doing well, still as skinny as can be but nice and solid, she's just truly shaped like a lawndart I guess.

Piggles is also gaining weight and seems to love life, though for some reason she isn't allowed near Any.... Piggles is entered in the Sydney Titles this weekend.

Pipsqueak Ebony Charm is overjoyed to have a baby to wash, even if it's not her own. She's still gaing weight, I've no idea when she'll stop LOL. She got knocked off a table at the show unforunately and is missing her top teeth now but it hasn't stopped her eating or really harmed her in anyway.

Ch Pipsqueak Edmund is very ill unfortunately. Still not too sure what's wrong but he'll be going to the vet on Tuesday. More on him later.

Pipsqueak Feather is doing great and adores his brand new friends. He's still slowly gaining weight but eats well and I think he's just too hyperactive to gain quickly, but I'll get him to 1200g one day...

Pipsqueak Fortinbras is a little shocked over the new cagemates but seems glad to have somethiong to divert Feather's attention away from him. He's sporting a brand new fringe trim courtesy of Feather. He had a brief bout of cystitis but tests showed no blood or kidney issues and it seems to have cleared upeasily with some trimidine powder and ural.

Pipsqueak Sterling is very sad having been left without a girlfriend for a while now. But he'll not be getting a new girlfriend this year so I need to sort him out a divided cage with another boar.

Shemelle Charmer is the new boy who is still at a friends place. I collect him on Sunday and oooh I can't wait, he sounds so adorable!

Symphonia Laertes is shocked that I actually put him in a cage with a sow but seems to be settling now. Hopefully there will be babies in mid november!

Symphonia Lavinia is equally shocked that I've put her in with a boar but likes not having to fight six other sows for access to the food bowl. She's a plump little madam already so I didn't want to hold off and have her get to heavy to breed safely.

Symphonia Rosaline is not pregnant unfortunately so she's heading back to a friends stud to try this again and hopefully actually get her pregnant this time. She's as happy as can be though and was very interested in Any and helped with his birth.

Tommi is doing well but I still haven't found her a home unfortunately. I'm not really sure what to do about that though....

Zibby is my new RSPCA foster of an unidentified colour, somewhere between slate and beige. But with dark eyes. I'm guessing Taupe... maybe, or a really really really washed out chocolate, he's almost lilac in tone, but brown based. He's got te most gorgeous type and he seems to enjoy living in the caviary.