Eriathwens piggies

Eriathwen said:
He really must be. As my vet put it when Silver went for his teeth last month.. they were the same pig in 2 different bodies. And that really sums the pair of them up. It's going to be impossible to find that relationship for him again I think, but I'm hoping I can at least find someone who can provide him some comfort.

I keep eyeballing Chester at Bunnies in Need, but his info says he's looking for a calm female friend. Silver is neither of those things.. Well, he's calm when he's asleep 😅 but he does like to be boss in spite of being wholly unqualified! I'm not sure how he would react to a big adult boar. Equally he would be an easy target for a baby boar once they hit puberty.. I'm thinking my best bet for him will be if Pippin does need spaying, which I do think she will, but ultimately I'm leaving the decision to my vet, due to her age, shes showing physical changes but not behavioural.. I think he will want to leave her unless she has large palpatable cysts.

But bless him, he's not doing terrible atm. He's had a lovely long nap with me.

View attachment 262723View attachment 262724View attachment 262725View attachment 262726
Click to expand...

That last photo could definitely be one for the

weepweeps

Thread 'Boars Galore 🍒'

After lots of discussions with Miss Bramble (@Betsy) and the GPU bosses its finally happened ….

We have permission for a Boars Only Space on the Forum where Miss Bramble is banned, as her mum Misty, is trying to keep her “good”.

Mummy Misty has said she may have to check in from time to time to ogle 👀 ummm I mean keep an eye on things.

So come on people (@fluffysal) this is now a safe space to post pictures and anything else about our gorgeous boars.

So if you’ve got any pictures of your boars in delicate positions send them in.

Neutered boars are welcome too...
  • Haha
  • Love

😂

I hope gorgeous Silver finds a new friend 🤞🏻
 
Eriathwen said:
The last 24 hours have been a little odd, I won't lie.
When doing veggies yesterday I was handing out herbs from one of the big brown bags, as I was throwing them into the big pen I looked for Mabel, out of habit, to make sure she was getting her fair share..just to remember that she wasn't there anymore 😔 I looked into the bag to get another handful and sat on the top was a little white feather 🥰

We've been sat watching TV just now and, above the TV (and now Mabels casket) is a little touch light, as far as we knew it was out of battery and dead.. its not been turned on in a couple of years. About 20 minutes ago it very dimly turned on.. and then back off again after a few minutes 😅
So, it looks like I have a very hairy member of the family returned, in a slightly different form 🥰
Click to expand...
Lovely ❤️
 
Moment of truth! Miss Pippin (who has just turned 6 😱 her and Bailey were just babies not 5 minutes ago!) has an appointment at the vet in a few hours to see whether she will need to be spayed. Just making sure she hasn't lost any weight since her meds check in September, she's held steady each week at between 800g to 840g so at least there's that.

As you can see, shes thrilled at the news 🤣

20250110_132902.webp
 
So, good news for Pippin! She doesn't have any large palpable cysts so she will not be spayed, at her age, the benefits for her do not outweigh the risks. We'll monitor her and reassess if her behaviour changes but as it stands, no surgery for her 🥰

However Lily is lodging a very serious complaint that, because of this totally unacceptable interruption to her daily routine, her veggie dinner is almost an hour late!

20250110_184015.webp
 
Oh we do have a tiny bit of possible bad news, Silvers left eye has worsened and developed thickening of tissue and blood vessels over the surface of the cornea. We had been monitoring one of Forrests eyes before he passed in case of tumour development.. a friend of mine in the US who I managed to put in touch with someone needing to rehome a lethal baby a few years ago contacted me last week to let me know he had to have an eye removed due to a tumour behind it. So the timing isn't great to be honest, it's a big fear of mine and now his eyes changed, but I'm trying not to panic.

So, when he next goes in to have his teeth done I'll be having his eye examined as well and fingers crossed its similar to Pearls eye "plaque" and non harmful.

20250110_155927.webp
 
Glad there was good news for Pippin. 👍🏻

Lily you will have to be a little patient when fellow piggies have vet appointments.

I hope Silvers eye is ok 🤞🏻🤞🏻
 
I hope Silver’s eye will be ok ❤️
Great to hear the news for Pippin ❤️
Dear Lily ……🥰
 
Eriathwen said:
So, good news for Pippin! She doesn't have any large palpable cysts so she will not be spayed, at her age, the benefits for her do not outweigh the risks. We'll monitor her and reassess if her behaviour changes but as it stands, no surgery for her 🥰

However Lily is lodging a very serious complaint that, because of this totally unacceptable interruption to her daily routine, her veggie dinner is almost an hour late!

View attachment 263209
Click to expand...

Glad to hear Pippin is doing OK and no op needed.
Hehe, Lily, read those piggy lips 🥰
 
Eriathwen said:
Oh we do have a tiny bit of possible bad news, Silvers left eye has worsened and developed thickening of tissue and blood vessels over the surface of the cornea. We had been monitoring one of Forrests eyes before he passed in case of tumour development.. a friend of mine in the US who I managed to put in touch with someone needing to rehome a lethal baby a few years ago contacted me last week to let me know he had to have an eye removed due to a tumour behind it. So the timing isn't great to be honest, it's a big fear of mine and now his eyes changed, but I'm trying not to panic.

So, when he next goes in to have his teeth done I'll be having his eye examined as well and fingers crossed its similar to Pearls eye "plaque" and non harmful.

View attachment 263217
Click to expand...
Poor Silver, he is so lovely. I hope his eye is a simple issue and not dangerous 🙏
 
So after weeks of not eating hay (I think we're at week 10 now?) I hear chewing while I'm trying to sleep. It's not a soaked pellets or veggie kind of chewing so I blindly take a photo in the darkness to catch him unaware.. boom! He's been sneak eating.

It seems the nerves in Silvers face have started to repair after the neurological event after the passing of his brother, making getting hay into his mouth easier!
He's currently on soft orchard grass hay to make it easier to manipulate it and it seems to have worked 🥰 I'm so happy. In the back of my mind I was worried he wasn't going to recover from the loss of Forrest, and it's a big step as it means he can possibly go in with a much more abled girl, like Poppet, where I won't have to worry about her stealing his bowl of soaked pellets etc from him and completely out competing him for everything.

20250120_023146.webp
 
Caught with the hay in his mouth ❤️ Great to have good news about lovely Silver!
 
What lovely news.

I recently bought some Chipsi hay for mine. It was mentioned by someone on the forum last year.
It’s lovely, short strands and very soft. It also smells lovely
It may be good for Silver to help him eat.
 
Merab said:
What lovely news.

I recently bought some Chipsi hay for mine. It was mentioned by someone on the forum last year.
It’s lovely, short strands and very soft. It also smells lovely
It may be good for Silver to help him eat.
Click to expand...

Thankyou! I'll add that to the list to get when I'm paid, I'm also going to get him some of the natures own sweet green hay, that's usually pretty soft, and it'll be a nice treat for the others too.
 
Eriathwen said:
Thankyou! I'll add that to the list to get when I'm paid, I'm also going to get him some of the natures own sweet green hay, that's usually pretty soft, and it'll be a nice treat for the others too.
Click to expand...
The Nature's Own Sweet Green hay is lovely and soft at the moment but quite short pieces. I think it must be from the second cut.
 
Eriathwen said:
It's from Rabbit boxes UK Rabbit Boxes there's a fairly decent selection of stuff or premade boxes.
Click to expand...
Thank you for this link! Bodie and Carson LOVES celery leaves and the ones sold in the shops only often have few leaves. They prefer the leaves more than the stalks. And the link you posted sells just leaves! My monsters will be soooooo happy! 🤗🤗
 
Yeah the celery leaves have been very popular with my lot! I do keep mixing them up with the flat leaf parsley so I've had to start tasting them first 🤣 I'm not a fan of celery so that's probably the worst thing about the boxes so far is nothing is actually labelled, but that's more my lack of being observant rather than a real problem 😅
 
Eriathwen said:
Yeah the celery leaves have been very popular with my lot! I do keep mixing them up with the flat leaf parsley so I've had to start tasting them first 🤣 I'm not a fan of celery so that's probably the worst thing about the boxes so far is nothing is actually labelled, but that's more my lack of being observant rather than a real problem 😅
Click to expand...
I just checked, minimum of £10 order and then around £6 delivery. 🙈 I have to convince hubby to buy it. 😂 Hubby and I don't like celery too but we tried giving it to Bodie and Carson and they love it, well just the leaves now. I wish I can get just the leaves somewhere from the shops here. I guess we can try growing them but then we don't have magic hands when it comes to planting veggies and herbs. 🙈
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top