Hedgehog news!
14.11.08 : The story starts here! Today Sally and I went to pick up a new addition to my family. He is an african pygmy hedgehog that is called Angelzoom. I have decided to call him Igel (german for hedgehog) for short (this took lots of deciding, and everyone was keen to get involved with choosing a name!!!). He is settleing in well into his new home and I am hoping he will be a lovely friendly hoggie!!
7.1.09 : Today Marie and I went to pick up a new addition, her name is Farley, however we have changed this, and she is a beautiful albino african pygmy hedgehog!
14.2.09 : Today both Igel and Ivy had a bath. It was Igel's second bath with me, but Ivy's first! I was a bit worried at first but I needn't have been, she was excellent to bath and she seemed to really enjoy the water! I am so pleased it went well for her as I was quite worried about how she would react to the water etc as she had given me a slight nip when I tried to cut her nails!
17.3.09 : I have decided that I will be breeding Ivy and Igel in the near future, so watch this space for any litter news!
23.4.09 : Some time during the day Ivy gave birth to one little male hoglet. I am really really pleased with her mothering skills and mom and baby are doing fine!
8.8.09 : Today I fetched 2 new hedgies to add to the collection, they are called Sugar and Spice, and are settling in well with me here.
23.8.09 : I will be breeding Igel to Ivy again this next week, so watch this space for hoglet news!
28.9.09 : Ivy gave birth to 4 beautiful hoglets, they are all donig well, 3 are dark (choco) and one is albino. There are 3 girls and 1 boy!
18.11.09 : Will be retiring Ivy from breeding due to her skin problems I think its unfair to potentially breed from her if the babies could end up with problems!
I have decided to breed Sugar soon so watch this space for sounds from the nest again soon! :-)
13.1.10 : Today I put Igel in with spice and he did the business with her, so we are hoping for some gorgeous little hoglets soon due around the 17th feb :-)
27.2.10 :
Today Spice gave birth, unfortunatly neither of her bubba's survived whch was very sad for her, she was a wonderful mom and very caring, but they were believed to have birth deformities, indeed i did not believe she was pregnant after all, she had been carrying for so long.
1.6.10 :
Today I found out that both Igel's mom and his sister had been put to sleep with symptoms looking like WHS, although this was not confirmed by post mortem, I believe that if it was WHS and it is in Igel's line, that it is unethical to breed from him again, so my breeding program has been put on hold until the future were I hope to take it up again when I have finished my exams and am a fully qualified vet (look at this space June 2011!!!)