There's alot of new piggie mums coming on board (and rabbits,rats,hamsters and all things furry)
So a thread to pool ideas (
pool see what I did there? Though I don't see my boys enthralled at a swim ).
What works for you. What can we try. What to look out for.
And don't forget he Flystrike risk 
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My boys turn their hairy little snouts up at water so they have watermelon and cucumber ,
I'm going to remove the hay bedding in favour of hack-rack and fleeces.
Persuade DH to line the haybox with ceramic floor tiles.
Plastic water filled bottles in the freezer on standby for quick chilling.
Come and add your top tips 
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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 19/06/2013 18:24
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70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
23/06/2013 11:48
He was wide awake super - I think he was hiding from GP1 ready to leap out and wrestle him to certain defeat...........
Like they do
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70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
21/06/2013 21:53
GP2 (who is very fluffy and jet black - so not built for heat.His saving grace is he's very slender) was buried in hay today. Literally a shadow under the hay.
I put a plate of grass down (too rainy for outdoor play). GP1 dtormed out, GP2 meh.
He's livelier now thankfully but 
that boy is going to need careful micromanaging .
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FernieB ·
21/06/2013 13:35
Mine would be lovely mincemeat and with the amount of tomatoes and basil they eat, would make a great bolognaise
Also jealous of free range pigs - we have far too many cats around, one of whom is an excellent hunter.
70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
21/06/2013 12:25
Very 
of Free Range Guineas.
There is a family of foxes in the service road at the end of my garden. They are completely unflappable and nothing I do will shift them.
The 70isa Boars would be mincemeat
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70isaLimitNotaTarget ·
21/06/2013 09:57
no worries with the hi-jack.
SFA threads have a mind of their own (and I know I've hi-jacked a few in my time 
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superfluouscurves ·
20/06/2013 11:53
Lucky you Fernie Would love mine to be a bit more civilised so they could be on the sofa, and not chew dh's Internet radio wires.
Mine are a bit too 'rampant' (for want of a better word) to come inside main house now apart from the cellars. They used to live in a large cage in the sitting room when they were tiny, but they grew ... and grew... and then they started to chew ... and chew.... . So they mainly live outside now - which is great and a good natural life - but you do sacrifice a closeness in your relationship with them. It's not quite the same. So I envy you having one in and one out!
They do occasionally come in if the French windows are open in hot weather - it's very funny to watch. They are like a pair of adolescents checking out somewhere that they are about to burgle .. they look round guiltily first .. then fall over one another as they rush in ... then they go and seek out the first bit of unprotected wiring or upholstery they can find
Had guests coming to dinner not long ago and was just setting table at last minute ...spread out 'best' tablecloth ... and noticed a row of nibble marks all along the middle folds ....grrrrrrr
FernieB ·
20/06/2013 11:37
Your rabbits sound like they have a great set up. My indoor boy is not massively impressed with outside and at dawn is generally hopping around the breakfast table. At dusk he's normally leaping on and off the sofa.
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