Me too, although silverwenius advise is for us to bathe them weekly. i notice their hair drop a lot when i bathe them weekly...

males can start mating when they are 1 month old. but i wont mate them immediately though - wanna feed it till healthy 1st before mating. n females wouldn't mind the size of the male as long as she's on heat

how old is ur Amy?

1 month n half....
have to go bak kl only can get alfafa...
now at taiping...didnt even have any gp stuff selling here...LOL

bubbles..
long time no see..
wow, i tot i'm the only one who's interested in the texel..
is the texel at pet safari not so beautiful one?

Bathe monthly is better. The rest of the time just use cloth to wipe. If bathe weekly it makes their fur dry sometimes.

but i feel my piggies smelly n oily after 1 week...
will it recommended to put some baby powder after bath in order to reduce the oil n smelly feel?

whoa really...! owh i just hope i am RICH...!! now i use the rabbit cage and looks like its not going to be a very comfortable house for Nao n Yui for a long time...coz gosh i can almost see their getting fatter evryday u know!! expecially Yui...her tummy was so......Fat)

so like...i have to save sumore to make tht cage la...huh.... Thanks for the info anyway

owh yeah, actually i'm now doing an experiment. u see i usually use the woodshaves as beddings for the cage, but as my Yui n Nao always have fun together their popcorning made most of the shaves ended being kick out of the cage (and recently i found out that Yui sometimes kicks the shavings out intendedly to get my attention...in which doubles me cleaning time) owh GP can really be soooo smart till i wanna BITE them ahaha

so what i did is buy 2pcs of thin rectangular sponge in a kedai alat jahitan, lay them on top of each other and wrap it with the kitchen plastic roll (the plastic we use to wrap our food b4 we toss it in the fridge).fortunately the size of the span fits the cage perfectly .So now i got a simple mattress wrap in plastic to avoid it being soaked with my GPs pee... and then i took my old baju kurung and make a cover for the sponges (macam sarung bantal la), put it on the matress and use it as the cover for the cage..i read GP likes cages with soft-bedding, so i try this out la..looks like they like it pretty much (they like to lazily snuggling on matress and pop around when their happ, looks like they like the fluffiness of the matress )

so now i only have to make another 2-3 sarung for the mattress, so i can change it daily or when its too dirty.planning on making the 2nd sarong tonite if the GP likes it and they wont chew or bite on the mattress i think i'll continue using this instead of the shaving coz its less "bersepah" and save money too...

This post has been edited by kaoru himura: Jun 9 2008, 07:41 PM

hee.. nice to hear dat Nao happy...
I believe she's getting very fat...

My GP babies getting fat very fast, no one believe dat my almost 3 month and almost 1 month babies dat big.
Different when we saw at pet shop, they said dat baby GP is 2 month and they'r very small.

This post has been edited by sharil_routh: Jun 9 2008, 08:51 PM

pet shop ma ofcoz din supply thm that much of healthy food de ... me las time rearing hamster u knw how i get thm fat ?? throw chocolate in .. yeah thy get very fat jus lik a ball ^.^ dont knw gp can or not lea ?? i wana get a pair in no time ~~

chocolates are unhealthy for animals bro, its a wonder ur hamsters din die.

NO CHOCOLATE PLEASE!!

This post has been edited by sharil_routh: Jun 9 2008, 08:57 PM

chocolates? wow, didn't chocolate have too much sugar and calories for a small animal to take? but my cat used to eat oreo biscuit.. and he really likes it..

Rumizu..

How ur shelly now? her belly getting bigger? really cant wait.

This post has been edited by sharil_routh: Jun 9 2008, 09:42 PM

hey guys~~ i need help...
jst now i found tat my torty, 2 months old, having soft poo...
n the soft poo is smelly~
n he keep drinking a lot of water...
but he still running n playing wth other piggies, n still eating...
is he ok? will him got diarrhea?
wat shd i do now?

soft poo..

Still look like normal shape?

diarhea poo shape like cirit birit actually, if ur GP poo not look as usual , i think something problem.

But he's still active, hmm... maybe nothing happen.

This post has been edited by sharil_routh: Jun 9 2008, 09:52 PM

the soft poo stil got it's banana shape...
but vry sticky n soft... n smelly too...
n he keep drinking a lot of water...
usually 4 of them will only take half bottle of 250mL container...
but today, whole bottle gone!!

I dont know there's a problem..
Coz my GPs also hav dat kind of poo sometimes and they still normal and active until now.
Maybe coz of their diet food, i guess.... coz what i saw everytime i give watery type veggies their poo look soft and quite smell.

Hahaha... and maybe dat poo look soft coz water comes out with poo and they need refill the water into their body so they drink a lot.

@sharil
she's at my parents'..
didn't go back last weekend..
maybe dis Wednesday will check her again..

@gchin
yup, if they eat vege in large amounts then i think it's normal if their poo become soft.. moreover he drank a lot of water, rite?

@rumizu
yah... he drink water non stop.. >_<


so means he is normal, rite? then i dont need to quarantine him? jst let him join them back?

coz i afraid tat he keep drinking water will cause Diarrhea.. so i put him in another cage wth no water, but wth hay n pallets n some vege...

no water? no no.. don't do that.. diarrhea can occurs if they eat contaminated vegetables and fruits.. and it's better to give them distilled or cooked water k?
please check what is the last thing that u fed him that cause him the soft poo symptom.. then cut that food from his diet and monitor the difference k?

This post has been edited by rumizu: Jun 9 2008, 10:56 PM