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Recent content by Eccles

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    Nutrition Green leaf lettuce - Leafy part vs. Stalky part

    My guys LOVE the stalky parts. And I will give them the "heart" all at once when we get to it. It has the tender little leaves and lots of stalky bits and they devour the whole thing!
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    Won't Eat Veggies Picky pigs

    I have one piggie who will eat broccoli. The other piggie will eat celery. Both will eat celery leaves! LOL. One will eat strawberries/tops, the other won't.
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    Behavior Funny! Chocolate is a "mountain piggy"

    I don't know how common this is... but Chocolate is a mountain piggy! He loves to hop up on top of the stool or pigloo and just survey the domain from up there. So we've dubbed him a mountain piggy cause he likes to be on top of the mountain. When we adopted him I was told he'd hop from the...
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    Won't Eat Veggies Picky pigs

    I was just noticing this... My piggies used to go nutso for their bell peppers, ate them first before the lettuce. Now - eh, the peppers wait and wait, and eventually they will eat them. Green beans... they LOVED them. More than carrots almost. Today they turned up their little piggie noses...
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    Parasites My crest is brings all the lice to the yard and they're like, we're here to stay...

    The dryer on hot will kill lice eggs
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    Hay Could I be allergic to only one brand of timothy hay?

    Allergic to the hay! Fresher is likely to cause more of a reaction, more pollen! Try Orchard hay, I don't react to it at all!
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    Vegetables What greens are most unlikely to cause chalky/sludgie urine?

    It seems like all the piggies favorites are no-nos for calcium. Anyone have piggie faves that are NOT a calcium problem???
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    Photos Meet my guinea pigs!

    Beautiful piggies! Welcome!
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    Photos New babies

    Oh that is terrible that they would do that! She's beautiful, by the way!
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    General The boys need names!

    The first boy needs a very serious name to go w/that serious look!
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    Vegetables Pumpkin

    LOL, just the left over bits from carving...
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    Nutrition Two new pigs - Won't eat bell pepper- Questions about other sources of Vitamin C.

    Lots of people recommend chopping the veggie you want to get the piggie to eat into tiny bits and sprinkling it over their pellets. That way they can't help but eat some and they will get used to the taste!
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    Vegetables Pumpkin

    LOL< me too! I know someone somewhere posted about giving their piggies some pumpkin. I know they can have squash and that pumpkin is a squash...
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    Fighting Living Together

    Ikea is all about pegs and glue! Pegs and glue! MORE Pegs and glue!
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    How Many? separate cages on top of each other

    Neutering won't change his aggression, piggies aren't like cats/dogs that way.
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