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Piggy Adult Weight 700g?

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Hi, my baby pig Pepper turned one in March, and I'm a little concerned about her weight. The other four all have quite different weights, from 800g to 1.2kg, so I know there's a variety of healthy weights.

Pepper stopped gaining weight a few months ago, and when I look at her she still looks like a little baby and feels quite skinny. She managed to get to 800g one week, then slowly decreased back to 700g and has stabilized there. It might just be that she's quite small and slim, but I get extra concerned when I compare her to Noodles, who is as small as her, very slim and weighs over 800g.

Does it sound like a healthy weight? As far as I'm aware she eats a lot, and she loves her food.
 
@GuineaWiggles How does she feel when you hold her? A good shape or boney?

I've only ever had boars so can't comment on girlies weights but I know they can be smaller than boys.

One of my past boys would not go over 900g no matter how much he ate. But he felt right, he wasn't boney or thin. I've had a few other boars at 1000g tops and they've felt good.
 
I would not worry at all... maybe she has some gene which gives her this size. If she feels good, she eats normally, if her teeth and bones are growing normally, don't worry of her size.
Here in the surrounding there live a female cat who looks like a kitten; after a lot of vets visits her owner stopped worrying and the cat is now quite old and never had healthy issues in all her life.
Also my Calipso maybe will not gain more weight... she is 700g now (7 months old), she is very slim and her weight seems to be stable, but I don't worry and I am not sure the "official weight charts" are perfect... according with those chart I am also underweight...:D actually I have a better health compared with normalweight same age friends...
 
There are a variety of normal weights, with some pigs being smaller than others. I would keep an eye on her and make sure that she maintains the weight she does have. I can tell that one of our pigs is going to be tiny... she still has a few months to grow, but right now she is half the weight of our other pig (Hadley weighs in at about 3 lbs, Leela is 1.5 lbs.) One of our past pigs never hit 2 lbs even at her heaviest. She was just very petite.
 
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