Luvmypets Journal: A New Season

[luvmypets]

Wow, January is almost half over.. Where in the world is the time going. My apologies for being inactive, between school and life in general I just havent found time to post. Sadly this past week we lost our oldest chicken and elegant roo Pritz. It really is bittersweet, he died on his roost on the divider between stalls. This being a place he has watched over his girls almost every night for as long as we had him which has been well over 5 years. If I was to guess I would say he was at least seven as he was full grown when we got him. My dad actually wants to get him stuffed so he is currently in our freezer . We also lost our oldest red who i named pokey because she had a funky beak, and although both losses are bittersweet I find a strange hope in having a new generation of chickens. In much happier news, Priss is almost two months pregnant and is starting to get a bit chubby, I am so freaking excited for her piglets. And with excitement comes.. can you guess it?! Anxiety, as always. I started researching all about normal pig pregnancy and such and then I start the classic "is she even pregnant" but Randy has almost been with us for three months and she hasn't come back into heat and she is getting fat, so I think we are good . I have faith nature has taken its course and she will be an incredible mama. So mark your calenders March 21 is her due date, I had thought it was the 23rd earlier but I recounted and I was a few days off. The trio of piglets are growing so fast and are so very sweet, my little Emmy is the queen of rubs, after she finished eating she comes over to me and waits until I give her rubs. Pearl and Hoover are pretty close, honestly all those little ones want is attention.

Here are some outdated photos from the day after the babes came, so end of Nov.

And our good ol Pritz, forever watching over his girls

 

[Bruce]

Pritz was a looker, sorry for the loss. Still 2+ months to little piggies, can you wait that long?

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sorry to hear about Pritz....
Glad to hear about Priss and hope ya can hang on for that length of time....but, I'm sure ya can....just think, it only seems like yesterday ya was starting back to school.....
Really good hearing from ya, too....hope school is going well for ya....

 

[Baymule]

You're gonna be a piggy Grandma! Baby pigs are so darn cute!

 

[luvmypets]

Found some pictures of Priss on my phone

Here she is presumably three days after she took

Here she is from wednesday

That belly is getting round, although she probably won't really start filling out until late Feb.

Oop and lil Hoover asking for food

 

[Latestarter]

Every time you post pics of those woolly pigs... and I see all that mud... my anxiety peaks I'm like YUCK! How can you scratch/pet/rub that? The little ones sure are cute though And the adults have cute faces.

 

[Bruce]

My alpacas are like that @Latestarter. IF they would want me to touch them, they are often wet/dirty and I wouldn't be all that interested. I think one needs to wait until they dry out and the dirt can be brushed off

 

[luvmypets]

I hadnt seen the animals in about two weeks, missed them so much! Also Priss is starting to noticebly show.

Ras

Clover and her babe Simon

Clover being precious

 

[Bruce]

Where have you been such that you haven't seen the animals for 2 weeks?

 

[Latestarter]

Glad to hear you were finally able to get an animal "fix"... the withdrawals can be pretty difficult.