Asyla_and_Yugi
10-22-2006, 06:17 PM
I'll start with the bad news. The way I see it, the bad news gets you down, then the good news sets you right back up.
Bad news:
1. During the first week, Pinky killed one of the six babies by puncuring his skull. Recovering slightly, his stomach was black, he wasn't eating, and he was weak; Pinky obviously rejected him. We tried to feed him goat's milk and get him to poop a couple times, but it was too late to save him.
2. During the second week, Pinky rejected another hog. She bit and wounded his leg badly. We caught onto this early, and tried to save him. We let Jen, someone who has much more time on her hands and has experience with saving hoglets, take care of him. All was going well, but when she was taking him to the vet to have his leg checked, he died.
There are now four babies out of the six left.
Good news:
This is now the third week, I believe, and all the babies are doing well. We did a quick gender check when Pinky got off the nest to inspect a piece of cookied meat. There are three boys and one girl.
It works out well, I suppose, since Dana wants a girl, I want a boy, Dana's friend doesn't care as long as it was bred from two generally friendly hogs, and Staci (another hedgehog breeder, though I can't exactly recall if that's her name or not) also doesn't care if its a boy or girl.
I feel absolutely awful... two hoglets die and this is my first litter... although I shouldn't hold her in account for killing the hogs, I still feel spiteful toward Pinky (angry at a hog, how about that?) and I'm just glad she isn't mine because if she were, I might be tempted to mistreat her right now for killing the two babies. Anyway, I apologize to anyone living in Alaska or who would have been willing to fly to Alaska to adopt one of the extra hoglets.
I'll post pictures of the remaining babies as soon as they're developed enough to live away from their mother.
Bad news:
1. During the first week, Pinky killed one of the six babies by puncuring his skull. Recovering slightly, his stomach was black, he wasn't eating, and he was weak; Pinky obviously rejected him. We tried to feed him goat's milk and get him to poop a couple times, but it was too late to save him.
2. During the second week, Pinky rejected another hog. She bit and wounded his leg badly. We caught onto this early, and tried to save him. We let Jen, someone who has much more time on her hands and has experience with saving hoglets, take care of him. All was going well, but when she was taking him to the vet to have his leg checked, he died.
There are now four babies out of the six left.
Good news:
This is now the third week, I believe, and all the babies are doing well. We did a quick gender check when Pinky got off the nest to inspect a piece of cookied meat. There are three boys and one girl.
It works out well, I suppose, since Dana wants a girl, I want a boy, Dana's friend doesn't care as long as it was bred from two generally friendly hogs, and Staci (another hedgehog breeder, though I can't exactly recall if that's her name or not) also doesn't care if its a boy or girl.
I feel absolutely awful... two hoglets die and this is my first litter... although I shouldn't hold her in account for killing the hogs, I still feel spiteful toward Pinky (angry at a hog, how about that?) and I'm just glad she isn't mine because if she were, I might be tempted to mistreat her right now for killing the two babies. Anyway, I apologize to anyone living in Alaska or who would have been willing to fly to Alaska to adopt one of the extra hoglets.
I'll post pictures of the remaining babies as soon as they're developed enough to live away from their mother.