Sunday is cage cleaning day at my house. It's usually very uneventful. Strip and wash blankets, wipe coro, replace blankets. Today was a whole different story. While rolling up the fleece and padding, I noticed tiny black bugs crawling and jumping on the random bits of poo that had gotten...

My Bubba was neutered on Feb. 9. By the next day, he was back to his usual self... popcorning to amazing heights, killing his salad, trying to get through the ceiling of his cage, which is the floor of the bottom level of the girls cage! Getting through is next to impossible, but he doesn't...

I second cfoster... I would think that as long as they're eating and drinking from the water bottle, it should be fine. It's better to be safe than sorry!

Considering I live in a rural area with many farm and garden centers, Ivermectin was ridiculously tough to find. I finally found some three days ago(I got the last bottle on the shelf! :D ) and plan to start treating everyone tomorrow. Looking back, I think I should have asked about Ivomec...

Recently, I decided to adopt another piggy. Just one more. I started hunting CL, and a few weeks later, found the perfect piggy! I went to pick her up Tuesday, and discovered that the previous owner was trying to re-home all four of her pigs (three sows, one boar). I'm sure everyone can see...

I'm moving into my new apartment in less than a week, so hopefully I'll be adopting my piggies in a month or so! I'm beginning to gather up supplies(grids, towels, etc). I haven't been able to locate a good cavy savvy vet yet though. I've checked the vet list on guinealynx, I've googled, and...

I agree that KM's is much better. I suppose I'm guilty of impulse food buying...the KM's would have taken a week to get here vs. the Oxbow I could get in three days. I dobt the store will refund me for it since they had to special order it in. It wouldn't hurt to ask though. I've thought of a...

would it be OK for all the girls to have the extra parsley or the treat of alfalfa hay? Just in case? It's good to know that everyone, babies included, can have the KM's, but I, in my panic, already paid for a ten pound bag of the Cavy Performance. I don't want to waste it. Any ideas? I...

I'm doing my best to get prepared, but I feel like the farthest thing from it! I've been reading stickies and threads, google-ing and taking down notes so i'll have everything on hand if i need it. It's nice to know that they can continue to eat their KM's....will that be ok for their piglits...

I should have knocked on wood when I said that only one of my girls got pregnant from this horrible incident. i have begun to suspect that my Sue may also be pregnant. she has gotten quite the tummy on her lately. i was hoping that she was ust putting on a little weight in her middle years...

thank you for the well wishes. I'm doing my besto stay positive, but knowing how much could go wrong, it gets difficult. Poor Rita was used for breeding piglits to sell at a local petstore(i did not buy her from here, i adopted her from a woman on CL who bought her from here) so she's been in...

It's been awhile since I've posted. My computer hasn't been working, and I've only just figured out I can post using my phone I should count myself lucky. Out of the above incident, only one of my girls has come out pregnant, Fat Rita. Fat Rita is around three and a half years old and...

I know. That's one of the main things thats worrying me. There's no telling what could have happened in the 5 minutes I was out of the room.

My two boys were having floor time just now, and my six sows were safely (or so I thought) in their cage. I left the room just long enough to go to the bathroom and when I came back, the boys had somehow managed to push aside the only grid that isn't zip tied to another grid. The boys were in...

OK! Today the piggies are getting their second doses. I don't know why I was so nervous..... its so easy and they don't even notice what I'm doing! :D Another question. how many doses should they have to ensure that all the icky, ucky creepy crawlies are gone? I don't want to give too many...

My two newly adopted boars have lice. I'm going to treat them(and also the girls, just to be safe) with Ivermectin tonight (with another round in a week) The box I have is black, and says Ivomec (ivermectin) injection for cattle and swine. 1% sterile solution (thanks again for it, Africa :D...

Cuteness OVERLOAD!!! Pop a stamp on their little noses and mail them to me!!! :D

It looks similar to a "boo boo" my Harold had...it was a bite from his cage mate that turned into an icky abcess. Does the stuff inside the "polyp" smell? Either way...if I were you I would take him to a vet ASAP. Even a vet that doesn't have a lot of piggy experience is better than no vet at...

Deborah had her check up today! I was concerned that she was too thin, but she weighed 2 pounds even! Surprisingly healthy all over! She also got a dose of Revolution while we were there. The vet said she wasn't as badly infested as I had thought. Will the Revolution kill the lice in time for...

I don't mind at all! I love the name Paula! My son's name is Paul(minus the A) :D I'm not really sure what would be considered a severe infestation. I do know that this poor girl has never seen a vet or meds in her life (approx. a year and a half) so she has likely had lice since the day she...