Guineananny
New Born Pup
Hello,
We have two 14 week old sows who we’ve had for 4 weeks. They’re both happy to eat, wander round when we’re there and when sweeping the cage daily. They will also take food from us and tolerate a quick stroking in the cage. We use a cuddle sack to transfer them from the cage to playpen during complete cage cleans.
However handling (to health check etc) is impossible they do not stay still! They just struggle to get away! They don’t stay in the sack/tube long enough to weigh them either (just thought should use a box!) They literally cannot wait to get out of any sack, tube, blanket as soon as their feet hit solid ground. My question is how on Earth do we trim their nails or look at them closely enough for health checks when they are literally trying to escape and wriggle free the entire time? We’re always very careful about making sure that if they were to blind jump we’re near the floor etc…
Whenever I watch videos the piggies all just seem to sit still on the scales, stand in the tube, snuggle inside the sack or on the lap or in peoples’ hands once they’ve been ‘captured’ but not ours!
Any advice would be greatly received.
Thank you
We have two 14 week old sows who we’ve had for 4 weeks. They’re both happy to eat, wander round when we’re there and when sweeping the cage daily. They will also take food from us and tolerate a quick stroking in the cage. We use a cuddle sack to transfer them from the cage to playpen during complete cage cleans.
However handling (to health check etc) is impossible they do not stay still! They just struggle to get away! They don’t stay in the sack/tube long enough to weigh them either (just thought should use a box!) They literally cannot wait to get out of any sack, tube, blanket as soon as their feet hit solid ground. My question is how on Earth do we trim their nails or look at them closely enough for health checks when they are literally trying to escape and wriggle free the entire time? We’re always very careful about making sure that if they were to blind jump we’re near the floor etc…
Whenever I watch videos the piggies all just seem to sit still on the scales, stand in the tube, snuggle inside the sack or on the lap or in peoples’ hands once they’ve been ‘captured’ but not ours!
Any advice would be greatly received.
Thank you