We've picked up the piggies!!

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Hi,
No photo yet as they are hiding which I'm sure is normal! No doubt I'll be around a lot now asking questions as a first time gp owner.

We have a double decker hutch and one (fluffy!) is in the dark but at the top and the other is down the bottom. We've just tried to live the bottom one (whisper!) to join fluffy but she shot out and is sat on the ramp. I'm imaging we just need to leave them alone for 24/48 hours? Have put some veg in and they have hay, will give them pellets tonight and hope they'll settle ok!

Aww Bless them, they will be very dazed'n'confused (it really doesn't take much to bamboozle them. We move our haybox every week and our boar is all "What's occuring"?? )

They only know each other that will be their security at the moment.
Chat to them, offer food.

What colour are they?

No food has been touched and they seem to be separate, one in the dark and one in the big bit at the bottom.

That are black/white/tan. Really lovely markings.

Hopefully tomorrow they'll start moving about, the one in the dark part of the hutch hasn't moved at all and they've been in the hutch since midday!

Have just panicked myself reading Google and have gone and put wet veg close to each piggie in the hope they may eat overnight.

If they have hay they won't starve and will most likely explore when it's quiet.

When we got our ladies , then earlier this year we got our GP6 boy , they were quarantined in our winter cage.
We didn't see them outside of their trug but we knew the food vanished and the pee/pooh was left in various areas so they were moving round.

They are taking in all the new sounds and smells. Pigs are prey animals so they are wary.

Or plotting

I already think they are training me- have just spent an hour on Pinterest searching guinea pig ideas, acting shy to get me to up my game from the start

Will see in the morning what food has gone and it makes sense that they are settling in, must be a shock being put in a box and then driven in a car for 30 mins before being shoved in new surroundings!!

it will take time. our two took two weeks to start being slightly happy to see us. we changed the set up tho to a massive indoor cage on a stand.
lots of trial and error and worry all the way.

but fun too.
a whole new world for me to explore online

Just checked on them. Whisper

(Sorry pressed post too soon!) seems confident up and down the ramp and the carrot and cucumber I put in last night next to her have gone and fluffy is still in the same place but the veg I put right next to her has gone too. I made it wet so if she isn't coming out for water at least she has had some from the food. Will add some more in a little while! Glad some good has gone though . I really am a worried parent aren't I!!

Whisper and Fluffy

Oooh they are beautiful, such gorgeous markings
Love the 'band' of black/beige on the left and the blaze (looks like a tree) on the right.

And they are tucking into grass........good sign.
Enjoy them

Welcome to the world of being a neurotic pig mum! Although, you won't be fully inducted into the club until you start checking their poo daily to make sure it all looks normal .

At the moment you are the 'magical food lady' who deposits little piles of snacks next to them. Soon you'll be the 'awful woman who cleans up the cage just when they've made it comfy and then never brings enough food'. My boys are still on holiday at the moment. I collect them tomorrow and then I'll be 'that terrible woman who made us come home from our luxury hotel where we are waited on hand and foot and can eye up the lady pigs'.

Enjoy your piggies, they really are lovely creatures

@ the checking pooh.......but it is a very good sign of your pigs' health.
Only trouble is when there are two or more bottoms, unless you know they've been sitting in one spot (Pooh Nest) or you see them pooh ( ours walk'n'drop)

They do the shifty ducking under their belly to pooh eat and glare at you (like you want to steal it from them) but I need to put my hand alongside their overly rotound rumps to make sure they don't topple over (because yes, it would be my fault )

My pigs come home today. I've just restored the Pighouse after cleaning it last week. (DD still in bed, lazy article)

I try to convince DD that 2/3 of the pooh/pee is from her rodents and my tiny sow is very tidy but it doesn't work.

Our trio have never been away from us, so we'll get the same Judgey Looks as you'll get from GingerPig Fernie
Our GP6 will have got admiring looks from the other sows and envy from the other boars for his Wifeys.

And the Evil Woman Personna intensifies when you cut their claws (eyes up battlescars)

Our pigs came home, settled in, ate a supper and breakfast of peppers, cucumber and grass.
I was at the supermarket first thing today stocking up on Pig Veg , so they're slightly mollified.

GP5 was really sweet and cuddly tonight.
Either she missed me or she's trying to guilt trip me

70 - my boys had had a wonderful time on holiday, were thoroughly spoilt and did not want to come home. They are just about speaking to me now.

Current Bun spent his holiday chatting up some female buns, but was relieved to come home to the single life as he has more room to roam. He's not speaking to me because I sent him on holiday.

The 70 Hogs had to tolerate being in the same postcode as rabbits. But they were in a high level hutch so did, quite literally , look down on everyone else .

Possibly because they are floaty light and easy to lift , whereas bunnies, erm, aren't.

These piggies are so funny!

Haven't worked out the personality of our two yet but they are still little! We now have specific pig veg shop too!! We've enjoyed eating the leftovers though!

Wish I'd got pigs years ago. Mine think I can't see them if they hide their faces