Weight in with, well, trust me, you don't want to know how many piggies... :P

[Happy 5th Birthday to Custard!!! - this is her as a newborn, approx 3 hours old)

The weigh in for Saturday the 14th Jan 2012:


*** Liam's Love Shack ***
Liam is 8800g (lost 50g) - 40wks (9.5m)
Tigerlily is 620g (loss 5g) - 16wks (4m)
Isla is 650g (first weigh in) - 19wks (4.5m)
Indigo is 610g (first weigh in) - 19wks (4.5m)


*** Romeo's Roost ***
Romeo is 670g (same) - 15wks (3.5m)
Lavender Mist is 735g (loss 20g) - 22wks (5m)
Zinnia is 660g (same) - 16wks (4m)


*** Malakai's Quarters ***
Malakai is 845g (gain 15g) - 23wks (5.5m)
Galaxy is 1040g (gain 25g)- 1 year old! Happy 'approximate' first birthday to you too Galaxy! :P


*** Mr Tex ***
Tex is 985g (first weigh in) - 2.5yrs


*** Girl's Mansion ***
Alice is 1175g (gain 140g) - 49wks (11m)- (Pregnant, due approx 27/1/12)
Bella-Donna is 500g (gain 35g) - 7wks (1.5m)
Chloe is 605g (gain 20g) - 15wks (3.5m)
Crumble is 1260g (same) - 1yr - (pregnant, due approx 4th Feb 2012)
Custard is 980g (gain 25g) - 5yrs
Delilah is 885g (gain 25g) - approx 1yr
Elodie is 935g (gain 75g) - 24wks (5.5m)- (pregnant, due approx 16/2/12)
Ginger is 1030g (gain 35g)- 43wks (10m)
Ivy is 700g (loss 5g) - 16wks (4m)
Jasmine is 585g (gain 10g) - 17wks (4m)
Lacey is 290g (first weigh in) - 4 weeks (1m)
Lotus is 685g (gained 15g) - 16wks (4m)
Molly is 845g (gain 50g) - 22wks (5m)
Nixie is 490g (gained 30g) - 9wks (2m)
Phoebe is now 875g (gain 30g) - 39wks (9m)
Pollyanna is now 545g (gained 30g) - 10wks (2.5m)
Ruby is 1160g (gain 80g) - 43wks (10m)
Savannah is 930g (first weigh in) - 1.5yrs
Sparrow is 1220g (gain 80g) - 40wks (9m) - (Pregnant, due 22/1/12)
Subi is 1145g (loss 35g) - 2.5yrs
Tabitha is 520g (gain 20g) - 11wks (2.5m)
Twizzle is 730g (same) - 16wks (4m)
Xeraphina is 650g (gain 10g) 14wks (3m)
Yeti is 1060g (gain 30g) - 32wks (7.5m) - (Pregnant, due approx 22/1/12)



***New Mums***

Millicent is 740g - 23wks (5.5m)- (gave birth, nursing)
Whisper is 95g (newborn)
Willow is 90g (newborn)
Winter is 105g (newborn)


Violet is now 645g (loss 5g) - 26wks (6m) - (nursing)
Henry is 125g (gain 25g) - 1wk
Hamlet is 110g (gain 20g) - 1wk

(one-week update pic)



Peppa is 1005g (lost 45g) - 1yr - (nursing Leilani's bubs)
Leilani is 765g (gained 5g) - 30wks (7m)- (nursing)
Pudding is 195g (gain 50g) - 2wks
Puddles is 200g (gain 45g) - 2wks
Promise is 200g (gained 50g) - 2wks
Peanut is 115g (gained 30g) - 2wks
Panda is 215g (gained 45g) - 2wks

(looks like Leilani has been letting Peppa do all the feeding! She's gained... 5g! While poor Peppa's burning off the calories!)


[Romeo is currently one of the pigs looking for his new home]

You might have noticed some new names on the list... now stretching out our numbers to nearly 50! I got incredibly lucky after a years worth of searching for new pedigree texel lines in the right colours/quality - and was offered some recently. (more on the new texel's in a new post). This means that some of our pet-piggies will need to find awesome new homes. As much as it breaks my heart, ultimately I planned to work with the pedigree texels, and have been given an opportunity too. This just means that some new families get to experience the joy of having one of our pet-piggies in their homes... rather than us hogging them all! lol. (Visit the Available page for more information on who is adoptable currently).




Thought I'd quickly share this pic of Puddles (now 2 weeks old) with Whisper (2 days old)... half-brothers with the same dad. Isn't it amazing how much the coat grows in 2 weeks!

Violets Baby Boys

Another week of constantly watching Miss Violet passed - watching for unusual behaviour, making sure she's comfortable, feeling her very active little babies kick and wriggle in her belly... Then I checked her first thing this morning - and NOTHING!

So I went about my morning, getting the kids fed, and changed and doing a bit of cleaning. I quickly popped back into Violet's room to put something away shortly afterwards - and there was a baby bobbing around next to her! A quick check and she'd JUST delivered two beautiful big baby boys - still gooey and wet!


( Here they are at 3 hours old: Henry is on the left, and Hamlet on the right)



Henry:


Henry is the bigger of the two brothers. He weighed in at a very good 100g. He is physically a lot bigger than Hamlet as well - you'd think there was a lot more than 10g difference between them.

Henry is a stunning blend of cream, cream agouti and white.





Hamlet:


Hamlet was the 'runt' of the litter at a very decent 90g. He is slightly darker in colouring with golden agouti, ginger and some tiny patches of white (on his head and under his chin).

The boys come from pedigree texel parents, but I do not currently have the dad's paperwork. If I can get this I will paper the babies, and they too will have a pedigree. If not, then they will simply be stunning purebred texels (with pedigree lines).