TCS Hedgehogs

FYI

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:29:00 +0000

This site is awesome: www.kellypng2009.blogspot.com

A Tiny, Tiny Baby Hedgehog, Only A Few Hours Old.

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 01:52:00 +0000

Old Hedgehog Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:21:00 +0000

Hedgehogs No More

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:00:00 +0000

My last hedgehog died while I was in Peru. My mom thinks that I should get another one. I still haven't quite decided what I'm going to do with my animals when I go to college next year. Drew and Josie are both very capable of taking care of them. It's just a matter of will they want to. I'm thinking about going down to the swap the first week of September with a bunch of friends, and I'm thinking maybe I'll get another hog then. They're pretty hard to find now! There were only 2 vendors that had them last time we were down there.

The One Remaining

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:35:00 +0000

Antics is the only hedgehog I have left! I sold off all the babies at the weaning time. Most of the other hogs hit the average lifespan, and then...died! I sure go through hedgehog food a lot slower now!

The Counter Comeback

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:07:00 +0000

The counter that used to be on my site has made a comeback. I didn't realize that I had been missing it for quite awhile. When I first changed my template it kicked the counter off. I just have to go in manually and put the HTML code in when I change templates. NOW I KNOW!

Dropped!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 03:31:00 +0000

So I put Scrat and Antics together last night, and they seemed to do alright. Well, I was down in the basement pretty much all day, and she literally kicked him out of the little nestbox! It was so funny! He ended up sleeping under the water bottle, feeling utterly rejected.

Alas!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:46:00 +0000

I'm down to only two hedgehogs now, unfortunately. I had a couple that were getting pretty old, but still, it's not fun having them die. I'm going to breed the remaining pair in a week or so. I think I might bring Scrat to work tomorrow. He could use a bath though.

Almost Time

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:50:00 +0000

I think I'm going to breed the Towaco and Caramel in a week or so. All the hogs seem to be settling in fine, but I really want to get them up on shelves. We're trying to get back to old house to get the shelving out, which would be awesome. Hopefully I'll get some babies from Towaco this time. And hopefully she won't cannabalize any of them!

Shelving Please!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:51:00 +0000

I need shelves! I have resorted to stacking my hedgehog bins for the time being until I get a shelving system. My area down in this new house's basement is nice and big, but it doesn't have any shelving. So I got to work on that. It's really nice because the laundry is upstairs so there's no disrupting piles of laundry to deal with. And dad's workbench is not there! It's just my corner this time!

Low-Fat Chow

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:59:00 +0000

I'm in the process of switching Antics over to Purina Indoor Formula, which is a diet formulated for cats that are indoors and have very little metabolic activity. These cats have a tendency to be obese. So does Antics. So over to the Indoor Forumula she goes, slowly but surely!

Try the Pinto Again

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Mon, 28 May 2007 01:40:00 +0000

I'm going to stick Scrat and Towaco together again tomorrow. Hopefully Towaco will take good care of her babies this time. If she does decide to cannabalize one or more of her babies, I will leave any remaining babies with her, in the hopes that she will learn to be a good mother. I'm looking forward to see what she does.

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:43:00 +0000

Most of the hedgehogs are ready to sell. I'm quite able to distinguish character qualities for the older ones at this point. There's Chomper, Biter, Taster, Licker, & Snuggles. Not really, they are actually all quite friendly and handleable, but they are also teething and tasting all the new stuff that comes into their zones. Anybody in Illinois who wants a hedgehog, send me an e-mail @
bryantbigfamily@wmconnect.com

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:40:00 +0000

Well, the hedgehogs are almost ready to be taken from their mom. All except the pinto. Her eyes are just starting to open and she's starting to get fur. I really like the albino. I might end up keeping her if she doesn't sell right away. I really need to buy a champagne male. Then I could start cooking up some nice high-end champagne babies. That would be really cool. I separated Scrat and Eric's Champagne today, and I'm going to stick Tiggy-Winkle & Scrat together tomorrow.

I put together a rough breeding schedule for 2007 so that I could try to have babies available every month of the year. That would be really awesome. Then I would really have to get a table at one of the reptile shows. I think I would almost be better setting up at the Lake County Show, since I don't think there is a hedgehog dealer there yet. The baby with the light mask has a FULL set of teeth! She was chewing up my finger today. All of the babies were, but she's got the most teeth out of all of them.

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:59:00 +0000

The baby's are 32 days old now! It's gone by really fast. They're at the stage where they are chewing on my fingers from the minute I pick them up. They're so much fun at this age! As you can kinda see from the 2 bottom pictures, they're venturing out of the nestbox on their own. That's always fun to see.

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:17:00 +0000

Here's some pictures of the pinto. The babies are doing fine. The albino has some eye crusties in one eye, but I don't see any big issues ahead. I was hoping to have more than 5 babies to sell this spring, so I was planning on setting up a table at the reptile swap. I don't think I'll need to do that now that I only have 5 babies. Most will probably sell just by word of mouth, and I'll walk the neighborhood with some of them during our community garage sale and try to get some people interested that way. I'm going to breed Scrat and the champagnethatIgotfromEricthatdoesn'thaveanameyet in the very near future. I'm debating whether I want to breed Antic's & Bilbo at the same time as the above pair, or space them out a bit.

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:19:00 +0000

Caramel's babies are now 22 days old, and the pinto baby is 11 days old. Caramel's babies eyes are almost all the way open. My EBCC was right, I have 3 Salt & Peppers, 1 Albino, and 1 Salt & Pepper Pinto. That's pretty cool, considering I've never had any colors besides Salt & Pepper. I probably will not keep any of these babies. They are all females except for 1 Salt & Pepper. I got 1 picture of each baby. More to come!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:57:00 +0000

Here's pictures from the past two weeks. Towaco had 2 babies about a week ago, but she cannabalized one of them. I fostered the other one to Caramel, because I figured she'd have a better chance of survival. It's working out quite well. Caramel has accepted the baby, and it's turning out to be a nice looking pinto. Caramel's baby's are all doing great, and I'm dying to see what the white one will turn out to be. I'm putting my money on albino. Here's my EBCC (Estimated Baby Color Count) as of right now:
1 Albino
3 Salt & Pepper
1 Salt & Pepper Pinto

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 02:10:00 +0000

Caramel's babies are doing great! I haven't any chance to hold the babies since the 2nd day, because Caramel has been hovering over them so much. I took a nap on the couch with Bilbo sleeping under my armpit today. Towaco is doing much better as far as being friendly. Tiggy-Winkle is due tomorrow. I'll try to take some pictures as soon as I can!

Caramel's Second Litter's Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:21:00 +0000

How's that for a title? I'm getting tired of making titles, I may just turn them off. Anyway, I got some new pictures of the hedgehog babies. As you can see from the picture with all the babies, the one is bright pink!

4 Babies!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 03:20:00 +0000

Caramel had 4 babies while I was at work today. One looked like it had bright pink skin, so I wonder if it will be a different color. We'll see!

Due Date

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:43:00 +0000

There hasn't been too much to write about recently. Caramel's babies are due on Valentine's Day. It's been really fun, because I can feel the babies through her stomach. That's just plain awesome! I am eagerly anticipating! Seems like it's gone by faster this time though.

New Hedgehogs, New Job, Potentially New Babies, etc!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:35:00 +0000

Hey everybody! My slightly sincere apologies to all of the people who regularly check here. I've been really busy with my new job working at PetSmart. I've had a lot of fun with that so far, and I met a lot of fun people. I got to know one guy especially, and he ended up calling me and wanting to know if I was interested in a couple hedgehogs that a friend of his was trying to get rid of. She had a champagne female and a brown male. They're a little over a year and a half old. She was selling them for $50. After a few questions, I decided to buy them! This guy had told me that the champagne was incredibly friendly, which I soon found out, but he had also said that the brown was always spiked up. When I first saw him I picked him right up and he unrolled for me! He was and still is a bit shy, but I'm confident he'll turn around with lot's of handling.

Hedgehogs for sale

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:47:00 +0000

I currently have 3 Salt & Pepper babies available for sale right now. There are 2 males and 1 female. They are $50 each. The female is possibly het for Champagne. Her father was a Salt & Pepper and her mother was a Champagne. For some reason it doesn't look like I spelled champagne right, but I'm too tired to look it up, LOL! Please e-mail me if you are interested in purchasing a hedgehog! I will post pictures of all of them very soon, so keep checking back

Kelly
bryanbigfamily@wmconnect.com

The babies are ready to go!

noreply@blogger.com (Kelly Bryant) — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 21:16:00 +0000

I have 4 babies for sale right now. 3 of them have holds All of these babies are Salt & Pepper, with one of them being a possible het for champagne. I am pretty happy with the one-eyed hedgehog. I think she'll make a very nice addition to my herd, especially since she's possibly het for champagne. I think I'm going to name her "Patch," although that doesn't sound like a very good girl name. I'll post pictures of the babies for sale as soon as I know who's getting which one.