Miss Tickle’s and her pups are currently sharing accomadation with Mr Big and Chantilly. The comparison in pup size has been, how shall we say, interesting. The little Miss tickle lookalike has now been named Fizz because of her bubbly personality and constant chat, she is quite the animated little busy body in the nicest possible way. Her brother, has now be named Marley (as in Bob, Google it if you aren’t sure 
). Her is the most chilled out baby I have yet to meet. He flops in your hand with one leg over the side of your palm and waits for his head rubs which he adores. Thankfully he is a boar or he would find his way into one of my sow pens I’m sure! This boy is horizontal
Both these two had a head start on Mr. Big weightwise, but Marley has now overtaken him and is weighing in at 232g, Fizz is 203g and Mr Big 211g (not to mention 2 wheeks older). Both pups are suckling much less, hardly at all in fact. In the wild pups reportedly cease suckling at around 14 days.
Marley has found his rumble but doesn’t have a clue what to do with it and everyone looks at him like he’s a bit strange All these guineas (Mums and all) are very into popcorning, particularly when a fresh pile of hay is put in. Marley and Fizz go straight to find the centre of the pile and, I’d imagine, eat their way out. They eat pretty much everything now and enjoy Cavy Cuisine and have been grazing on the grass in the fine weather. They’re quite happy to have it brought to them though if the weathers not so good
So from a really poor start for Mum everything has turned out well, just goes to show really that guineas don’t need a lot but what they do need they must have or things will quickly go downhill. None of these pigs have had special care, just an ordinary diet and somewhere decent to live (ie clean, dry and spacious).
All their basic needs have been catered for and they have come on in wheeks and bounds
Karen (who doesn’t ‘wheek’ or bound.)
