Our new Lunkarya's!

Today was the day the (long awaited!) Lunkarya sows arrived from their old home in Wales to live with us here in Devon! I know, we always seem to be getting new Guinea Pigs, however we are practically living in our new Guinea Pig Shed (update coming soon!) all day, everyday at the moment,fussing all the pigs, and we love it! Our little group of three guinea pigs has grown so quickly in the last year... The line these lovely girls are breed from came from Dawbell Stud near Gatwick. This is the photo sent to us by the breeder, we haven't taken our own yet as we thought we would let them settle in first, but they should be up on our Lunkarya page at some point tomorrow! We have decided to name our Lunkarya's after cars (super cars mainly!) So introducing Porscha (right) & Mercedes(left). Anyway, we are so happy with them and will keep you updated on them!
 

 

XOXO

I am a really bad blogger!

So since I last updated the site a lot has happened! I know (slaps wrists!) I am bad at blogging!

Where to start...

Firstly Mango had her first litter sired by our lovely boar of the moment Finnegan. They had a lovely litter of three in July (1 sow and 2 boars). All three lovely piglets  have gone to their new homes. Sugar (the sow) went to keep another little pig girl company and our two lovely boy now named Chewbacca (Chewy) & Frodo have gone to live with Lucy in their new home together.  You can follow them on their own blog! Go check it out!
http://gottaloveguineas.wordpress.com
If you look at Popcorn and Finnegan their markings and colourings are almost identical, very awesome but a bit spooky! We've never had any thing like that before.


Sow (Sugar)



Boar 2 (Popcorn)
 



Boar1 (Caramel)


Secondly both Harper and Horace have left us! Harper went to a family who had a lonely little 10 week old sow in need of some company after her sister had to be put down:( We love it when our guinea pigs make people happy like they make us happy so we were so pleased that we were able to help!

Thirdly our pigs have new digs! We have moved them in to a shed with custom-made cages courtesy of Mr. WestCountryWheekies. However I will do a separate blog post on this so watch this space!   

Lastly we bought a new little pig that belongs to our cousins who live in France but will stay with us for the duration of her life. She is called Nutella or Nutty for short! We haven't taken any photos yet, SHOCK HORROR I know! We will post a photo in the next couple of days, so keep your eyes peeled!

All that's left to say is keep an eye out on our Lunkarya page as we are waiting on some new sows to join our growing group! Excited! Lots happening here so will hopefully post a bit more often!

XOXO

Baby pigs for sale!

Lovely Marzipan gave birth to her 2 beautiful babies on Sunday 8th of June (4ish weeks ago!) They are now for sale. We have one little boy (nicknamed Horace) and one little girl (nicknamed Harper) both are lovely healthy weights are we think they are going to be long haired! Ideally we would like to put the two in with a young guinea pig of the same sex! Email us @ westcountrywheekies@yahoo.co.uk for more info!

Harper - little girl

 

Horace - little boy

Another new arrival

Guinea pigs seem to be like buses, you can never find the ones you want (we want them all but we have to be selective other wise we would have hundreds!) and then all of a sudden there are several in one go!

So let me introduce Bentley....

He is a pure Lunkarya guinea pig, the first of many (hopefully)! He is 8 weeks old and currently living happily with Mackenzie Mouse! We are looking forward to seeing how his coat turns out, at the moment it's really thick, curly and soft - he is so lovely and well natured!
Keep watching for more Lunky news in the future!

Blue update: Blue is settling in very well today, she is so well behaved, she just sits and lets you cuddle her!

New setup update: we have now secured a shed to move the guinea pigs into - complete with light! So all we need to do now is insulate and build the pens! We are all very excited!

New Arrival!

Meet Luna!
Luna is a Silky Coronet guinea pig. Her breeder called her slate blue however we think she might be silver or lilac. She is pedigree and came from a litter of 2 females. She is the best behaved piggy we have ever had! Very cuddly and quiet.

Second Litter

So the second and last litter of the year was born yesterday morning, around 6:30am. Two little girls called Marilyn and Audrey. Both look to be coronets. Mummy and pups doing well. This litter was a surprise as we bought Fleur home from the pet shop already pregnant. Not so good, but we got some very pretty little piggies! Photos will follow but having a bit of trouble with the camera!  

Here are some (very) bad quality ones took early yesterday morning:



Marilyn

Audrey



 

 

New Arrivals

I would like to introduce you to our new piggies. Fleur (about 12/13 weeks) and Finnegan (About 7 weeks). They are both long haired, however Fleur is Coronet and Finnegan is a Abyssinian/Peruvian. They have both been successfully introduced to their new cage mates. (The girlies for Fleur and Phantom for Finnegan) and we absolutely love them. They are so fwuffy!

Above: Finnegan, pink eyes! 

 

Above: Fleur, with a cute white patch on her nose.

 

Quick Peppa update: Peppa has not got long left to wait until the piglets arrive, it could be any day now and we can't wait! Watch this space!

 

If you have any questions about them or anything guinea pig related email me at: westcountrywheekies@yahoo.co.uk and I will try best to answer it or point you in the direction of someone who can!