Pitter-Patter of Tiny Feet ...

Aunt Petunia has been on pregnancy watch since she arrived before Christmas as she had been brought from a breeder several weeks earlier. Sadly she is definitely pregnant and hasn’t long to go now until the babies are due.

She is a very sweet piggy who the breeder refused to take back when she didn’t get on with the lady’s existing sow (although with hindsight her aggression was likely hormonal!). She is sitting happily in the rescue block looking like she did in fact eat all the pies!

Since our baby boom in the summer when we had so many pregnant rescue pigs at once, we haven’t had many babies and these will be the first of 2020 (previous were born just before Christmas). 

It would appear that Petunia was housed with her baby boars so these babies are almost certainly inbred. This isn’t uncommon with guinea pigs but clearly not ideal! We’ll keep you posted.