... This time it really has been long time no post! Unfortunately not for the best of reasons, my Nan passed away last autumn so... yeah.
The hams are all doing okay. Darla is still going, though at at least 27 months old now, his time is probably soon. Annie is still having issues with fur loss, she now has a rather patchy bum, but she is still acting her normal crazy ham self, so the vets have said not to worry. Winter and Rocco were re-introduced after their separation back in August, lived together happily for a few months, and then Rocco started bullying Winter earlier this week (unlike last time, where it was Winter bullying Rocco), so they have been separated for good. They've also been to a couple of shows, and Rocco even won a rosette, which was nice.
All this has meant that there was much cage swapping this morning. When Winter and Rocco were separated, Winter was put in my spare mini duna for a few days -- I had to separate them late one evening and didn't have time or energy to swap everyone around until today. Darla has now been relocated to the mini duna, as he's been getting less and less active, and Winter is in the vacated bin cage. Rocco is still in the zoo zone 1, as it gives him more opportunity to dig like the little mole he is!
I'll try to post more regularly this year, but I'll just leave this post with a video of clips I took while cleaning the boys out. Enjoy!
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Saturday, 18 January 2014
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Update time!
I haven't been very active on the internet recently, so I figured I needed to do an update on the hams!
Darla -- my old boy is doing well. He's getting a bit bald on his legs in his old age, but he is 2 years old in October so I guess he is allowed! He's back in his old bin cage (the 62 litre bin from Wilkos), due to issues with my other boys I'll mention later.
He was feeling rather shy when I was taking photos!
Annie is being her usual menace. I've given up trying to get her to stop spider-ham-ing across the top of her zoozone 2, because it just meant she ended up in a cage devoid of toys and wanted to get out more. She's still crazy about exploring everywhere!
It's the fact that she's still acting the same that I haven't taken her to the vet yet, because she's starting to lose fur on her hips. She's not much over a year old if P@H are to be believed about her age, and I thought at first it might be related to the heatwave we had recently in the UK. I've been giving her extra vitamins in her water, she's not scratching so I don't believe it's mites, and like I said she's acting the same in herself, acting like there's nothing wrong. It's only getting worse though, so I figure I'll see if they have anything to say about it.
You can see her fur loss in this picture:
And some more of her cheeky face:
And then there is Winter and Rocco, my darling boys. Unfortunately they're not quite so angelic together any more! They'd been scrapping a bit, trying their dominance against each other, and I tried to keep them together but I knew it was time to separate them when Winter bit Rocco on the bum hard enough to bleed. Winter seems to be coping fine with being alone, but Rocco has been quite skittish since the separation, which is a shame because he was the friendliest Robo out of my three before.
Here's the last picture I took of them together:
Winter is still in the Ferplast Mary they shared, as he got more confident in a barred cage.
And Rocco is back in the zoozone 1 that they came to me in, that I gave to Darla when I moved the boys to the Ferplast Mary. He loves to dig, and there is more space for deep substrate in the ZZ1 than there is in the bin, hence why Darla got moved back to the bin.
Darla -- my old boy is doing well. He's getting a bit bald on his legs in his old age, but he is 2 years old in October so I guess he is allowed! He's back in his old bin cage (the 62 litre bin from Wilkos), due to issues with my other boys I'll mention later.
He was feeling rather shy when I was taking photos!
Annie is being her usual menace. I've given up trying to get her to stop spider-ham-ing across the top of her zoozone 2, because it just meant she ended up in a cage devoid of toys and wanted to get out more. She's still crazy about exploring everywhere!
It's the fact that she's still acting the same that I haven't taken her to the vet yet, because she's starting to lose fur on her hips. She's not much over a year old if P@H are to be believed about her age, and I thought at first it might be related to the heatwave we had recently in the UK. I've been giving her extra vitamins in her water, she's not scratching so I don't believe it's mites, and like I said she's acting the same in herself, acting like there's nothing wrong. It's only getting worse though, so I figure I'll see if they have anything to say about it.
You can see her fur loss in this picture:
And some more of her cheeky face:
And then there is Winter and Rocco, my darling boys. Unfortunately they're not quite so angelic together any more! They'd been scrapping a bit, trying their dominance against each other, and I tried to keep them together but I knew it was time to separate them when Winter bit Rocco on the bum hard enough to bleed. Winter seems to be coping fine with being alone, but Rocco has been quite skittish since the separation, which is a shame because he was the friendliest Robo out of my three before.
Here's the last picture I took of them together:
Winter is still in the Ferplast Mary they shared, as he got more confident in a barred cage.
And Rocco is back in the zoozone 1 that they came to me in, that I gave to Darla when I moved the boys to the Ferplast Mary. He loves to dig, and there is more space for deep substrate in the ZZ1 than there is in the bin, hence why Darla got moved back to the bin.
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