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My pig scoots his pigloo to striking distance of his food source, then emerges like a snail to eat. It looks absurd. I've been looking at C+C cages since I'm moving and finally have more space for our pig, and I was wondering if there's a thing as too much room for a single pig?
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2010 08:21 |
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| # ¿ May 18, 2013 15:06 |
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kazmeyer posted:Very few things can top the look of outrage and violation that you get when you wash a guinea pig's butt. Oh dear god I'm doing this for the first time this weekend and I am not looking forward to the smell. We bathe Carl probably three times a year at most, but this will be the first time I clean his butt. I don't think he'll like me much afterwards. INeedANewCrayon: Did you adopt from Wee Companions? I think my pig needs a friend and they look like a really legit rescue.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2011 07:48 |
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Usually my girlfriend does it but we're going to start divying the poop chute duties up. It's time for a disgusting adventure!
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2011 16:07 |
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I can finally get a bigger cage for my pig (time for a friend!), but the rescues we're looking at have neutered boars, and Carl is intact. Do intact and neutered boars have any issues getting along? The rescue descriptions seem like they keep trying to pair them with girls.
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2011 03:37 |
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Yeah, next time I'm getting sows, holy poo poo the pig rear end
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| # ¿ Mar 26, 2011 20:12 |
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alucinor posted:You can also feed unlimited strips of sweet bell pepper (any color) as treats. It's basically a perfectly balanced food. Not so fast- one of my pigs will only eat green peppers. He is a food racist.
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| # ¿ Mar 27, 2011 18:30 |
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A paper bag full of greens is the best possible guinea pig treat.
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| # ¿ Mar 31, 2011 05:45 |
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Is there any specific reason to not feed my pigs wheatgrass? We get it absurdly cheap and the pigs love to sit on the flats and chew tunnels.
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| # ¿ Apr 4, 2011 06:08 |
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Our pigs are so happy with fleece but they are messy as hell. Hay and three sizes of poops all over. Is it possible to get the pigs to poop in a raised litter box with the hay rack on one side? Or are they too old for potty training? Edit: Oh yeah the cage cubes at Bed Bath and Beyond are the proper size, if Target doesn't have it. Bastard Tetris fucked around with this message at May 11, 2011 around 04:45 |
| # ¿ May 11, 2011 04:18 |
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INeedANewCrayon posted:Happy Birthday Sirotan's Pig! I just got some shitbox bagless, you mainly want a weak one that's not loud and won't suck up the fleece.
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| # ¿ May 13, 2011 01:08 |
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Speaking of fatpigs- my big pig is about 3 and is tipping the scales at 1584g. Is he unhealthy big?
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| # ¿ Aug 17, 2011 06:49 |
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A big pig: 
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| # ¿ Aug 17, 2011 14:45 |
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We're planning to expand their cage now that the little pigs are now adults (they're like 1000-1100g, I'll post them when I get home)- I need to find a good place to free range them, our complex is pretty small.
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| # ¿ Aug 17, 2011 15:44 |
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kazmeyer posted:Guinea pig weights can be all over the place. One of my girls never broke 850g, and another topped 1500 before she was a year old. I never worried much about her health, though, because she was the pig who would always jump into the hay rack no matter how high we hung it; I figured I'd start worrying about her being overweight when she lost her one-grid-height vertical leap. Our smallest pig jumped like six inches vertically when we gave him a bath, it was absurd. How do they jump so high when they are shaped like beans?
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| # ¿ Aug 17, 2011 22:57 |
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The first time we gave the small pigs a bath they kept climbing up on the big pigs back in some futile attempt to stay dry. When we introduced them they fought a bit so we bathed them all together so they bonded through mutual terror.
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| # ¿ Aug 18, 2011 07:05 |
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Holy shiiiit, the rescue I got my pigs from just took in 120 from some hoarder that dropped them all off in LA: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/kt...0,3687557.story If anyone wants to adopt a pig in Southern California or Arizona, now is the time, since the shelters need a bunch of room.  I sent a check to the rescue, hopefully it will buy a good amount of bedding.
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| # ¿ Sep 2, 2011 07:13 |
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Sirotan posted:Logistics mostly. I think a 12+ hour plane ride would be incredibly stressful on a pig. There would also be language issues when it came to interacting with vets, that's assuming exotics vets would even be available to me. Availability of pig food, trying to find a place to live that would allow pets.... etc etc. I have thought about it extensively, I just think it would be a logistical nightmare and I'd be pretty concerned about their health during the trip. I may move abroad for work next year and was really excited to see that the logistics would be the only issue- most airlines are cool with sending pigs. Pet passports were no big deal for guinea pigs. Although I am a little concerned, one of my boars tried to chew on my face, and when I moved him back, he started making his "I'm hungry!" wheek. I've created a monster! 
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 01:20 |
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Tomorrow my pigs will get their first taste of 25 pounds of KleenMama's bluegrass hay, will this spoil them against regular hay?
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 05:05 |
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They always get Oxbow, but I figured I'd make a switch. We're trying hay lofts but they seem to just love having it spread everywhere so all three can find hay at the same time without having wacky rumble sessions with each other.
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| # ¿ Oct 8, 2011 17:05 |
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My pigs like to stomp on their poops, I'm beginning to think they're doing it on purpose.
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| # ¿ Oct 9, 2011 23:57 |
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Oh god my order with KM's hayloft didn't go through and I had to switch to pet store hay. I noticed that they got really good at flinging poop out of their cage, there were like 10 poops on the living room floor when I got home from work.
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| # ¿ Feb 17, 2012 05:13 |
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My pigs eat about 60% kleenmama bluegrass hay 25% assorted veggies and about 30% pellets. This adds up to 115% because they are fat fucks. That hutch is pretty cool, it might be a little bit on the small side. Be sure to give them time to run around. I've never seen pet grass before, but we will get a tray of wheatgrass and they will go to town on it. PS: If you get them really fancy hay never run out, they will probably revolt.
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| # ¿ Feb 29, 2012 04:07 |
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Carl is the biggest pig of them all, last time I weighed him he was 1580g.
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| # ¿ Jun 17, 2012 04:25 |
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Sirotan posted:It's been a couple years since I made new fleece bedding for my pigs and my current sets are starting to get pretty tired and worn looking. Here's one of the new sets: They look so clean! My three pigs turn the cage into a poop garden about 30 minutes after a fleece change. How do you manage?
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| # ¿ Aug 28, 2012 04:40 |
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So, one of my pigs apparently had a poop-eating frenzy today and has a stained mouth. Can I wash their faces? We tried a damp paper towel and he just went on a chew frenzy. I've also noticed that he occasionally wipes his butt on the floor. He's an neutered male, is that a sign of infection or just him being gross?
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2012 06:57 |
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Rodent Mortician posted:Even though he's neutered, he's still trying to scent mark. Intact males rub disgusting smells on everything with their asses. Once you neuter them, the smell goes down significantly, but they still want to be all manly and cover stuff with stink. Ok, I'll just chalk it up to pigs being gross. He's probably trying to be mad pig at his intact cage-mate Carl.
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2012 02:14 |
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Uh oh, one of my pigs is drinking an inordinate amount of water. Is there another symptom I can cross-diagnose with, or is it vet time? His weight's unchanged and is just as active.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2012 07:28 |
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It's only been happening for two days, their greens consumption hasn't changed, the only thing that has changed was that we switched from Timothy to Bluegrass hay from Kleenmama. I'll give him some towel time and see if his poops are strange.
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| # ¿ Dec 21, 2012 18:02 |
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Vital Signs posted:The wife just got a pair of fairly young male pigs. They fit in the palm of my hand, so still pretty young. I'm just curious what steps we can take to ensure they get along and aggression is kept to a minimum. What worked best for my males was giving them all a bath together, the shared trauma bonded them. And I think it neutralizes their scents, so they're more used to each other. alucinor posted:Ah hah! It's possible (probable even) that the two types of hay have different moisture contents, whether because of the difference in the age of the hay in the package, or because of the hay type. That's the likely culprit and if no unusual poop patterns you're in the clear. As a guinea pig owner my life revolves around poop. Thanks!
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| # ¿ Dec 23, 2012 05:53 |
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| # ¿ May 18, 2013 15:06 |
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Kluliss posted:We got two guinea-pigs last week :3 they're total idiots which greed levels that outweigh their fear...almost... That sounds all kinds of normal. Our pigs freak out from HANDS OF DOOM and I've had them for four years. Once they're picked up they cease caring. Bribing them with food is pretty helpful in a pinch, when our pigs freak out when we clip their toenails they are easily pacified by continually feeding them bean sprouts. It is actually really funny to see how much of their interactions with you are governed by sheer unjustified terror.
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| # ¿ Feb 2, 2013 11:34 |
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