Grayrose Cavies

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Thanksgiving is, perhaps, my favorite holiday. Today we will be celebrating with all the classics including a 25 pound heritage turkey and ten pies, mostly pumpkin. The pigs will be included in the festivities with their own feast. I picked up several pounds of fresh organic kale for them to pig out on.

A couple days ago a red teddy sow, Grayrose Camilla, had babies — two red sows and a cream sow. The father is a DEW, QT Snowflake (Lucky). I recently bought the parents from Tess of TT Cavies in Erie, PA. I had sold her Cammie a while ago, so it was neat to get her back. The babies all look nice and curly with short faces and fat tummies. I'll keep one of the red sows, so the other two will be for sale. About two weeks ago a cream teddy sow, Perle d'Or, had two babies, a cream sow and a buff sow. I might keep the buff, but cream will definitely be for sale. I also have for sale an intermediate DEW teddy boar, an intermediate red teddy boar, and two senior cream teddy sows. These are all nice, showable animals. I just have too many. The senior sows are about a year old and have both had good litters. I also have some agouti teddies, silver, golden, cinnamon, and lemon, in both boars and sows. If interested, please let me know.

No baby abbies for a while, although I have at least six sows that are expecting and due sometime in late December or early January. And I should have a flood of babies after that in time for the PaSRBBA show.

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Have a great day and don't eat too much. We all have a lot to be thankful for this year.

Selling the last of our Americans

Yesterday our last American boar, a junior lilac self, went home with his new people. So we couldn't breed Americans any more even if we wanted to. But I just don't have room anymore for these sentimental favorites. Our last five American sows are for sale. These were some of our very first pigs, either our original stock or the babies of those first pigs. So each is special. They have all been bred several times, the chocolate and the silver agouti most recently.

Some of these sows could be shown, but they will be best in a small caviary where a premium is placed on cuddling. Or as great pets. That is not to say that they are merely "Pet Quality", rather, since they were among our first babies, they were pampered, snuggled, cuddled, and spoiled. It is amazing how easy it is fuss over babies when you only have 30 pigs. Their pictures and descriptions are listed in the "For Sale" album. The oldest is a 2-1/2 year old brindle. The rest were all born in the winter or spring of 2004, so they are still young.

Next to come will be the listing of Senior Abyssinian sows, and junior abby boars. Plus some baby pictures: just had a litter of chocolate and chocolate roan teddies last night. Can't wait to show them to everyone.

Pigs For Sale: Junior and Senior Teddy Boars

I am finally getting my "For Sale" lists put together and posted.

Starting with Junior and Senior Teddies and Teddy Satins. Next I'll do the intermediate Teddy boars, and start working on the Teddy sows. After that I'll do the Abyssinians and finally the Texels. Stay tuned. Actually, I'm probably going to do all the boars of everything first before making the difficult decisions about the sows.

You can view the current list here: Teddy Boars For Sale. These all have full pedigrees.

I'll post updated lists and links as I get them photographed. If you see something you like, need more information on, or would like to see additional photos, please email me at grayrose@adelphia.net. If you are looking for something not on the list, please let me know by signing up on my waiting list with a brief description of what you are looking for.

Please keep in mind that I almost always keep my "show quality" animals as do most breeders. In other words, don't expect to buy show quality, except rarely. The pigs for sale here have breeding potential, and a few may be showable. But please don't ask me to sell you a trio of "show quality" teddies or abbies. Instead let me know what breed you are working with and what characteristics you need for your breeding program, i.e. type, coat, sheen, color, and I'll do my best to set you up with something that will work. If I can't meet your needs, then I'll refer you to another breeder.

One more issue to consider. My babies are all well handled and used to people.

For sale: Texels

My friend, Terry, has some young texels for sale in SE Pennsylvania, including a young sow. She is also expecting a litte anyday now.
Here they are.

I have decided to sell a number of senior teddy boars, both satin and standard, plus a few sows. I hope to have the list up by this weekend.

Buying, selling, and swapping pigs

Most of my pigs for sale have been sold or, at least, reserved. There are a very nice pair of show-quality texel boars left, and a pair teddies: a solid silver satin boar and a solid golden satin-carrier sow. I may have an additional cream boar available in time to deliver to the Midnight Madness show. Please email me if you are interested.

I've had inquiries from as far away as Oregon Sorry, I don't ship, and Ontario Two abbies and a teddy. Thanks. By the way, if any one in or near Portland, OR, has a roan long-hair sow to sell, I have a buyer for you. Does not have to be show quality.

Tomorrow I am expecting a very excited young woman from Ohio, who is driving here to pick up her new baby abby. This little pig never even made it up on the site. So here is her chance. She is so pretty. Not showable because of the roaning on the TSW, but she is still pretty and very sweet tempered, especially for an abby.

And during all of this selling, I've acquired two more teddy boars. I don't actually have them yet, but we're working on it. Linny, aka Movietime's Karrot Top, a red boar, from Q.T. Cavies is coming here. Thanks Laura. And Carrie of Mon-TravCavies is giving me her Frosty, an awesome platinum agouti roan boar. Laura is getting a cream teddy sow from me, while Carrie is taking a saffron boar. Please check out my links to their sites. They have some fabulous animals.

My question is how did this happen. I sold several boar and was really excited about those empty cages. But they're already booked up. Nature abhors a vacuum.

Texel sows going, going...

I don't even get a chance to post the list, and they are already being snapped up. There is one left.

UPDATE: 6-6-05 9:00 a.m.All the texel sows have now been reserved, to be picked up here or at one of the shows listed. If you are interested in a texel sow, please let me know, in case something falls through on one of these. And I can always add you to my list for sneak peeks of upcoming litters.
Click on her picture (on the left) to see another shot of her and of the others.

And here are the rest of my pigs for sale, reposted from earlier:

Show Quality Texel boars, between three and five weeks old. Click the picture of the texel to see more pictures, descriptions and prices.

And more pigs. Abyssinians and Teddies. Click the roan teddy to see the whole list.

Pigs for sale

Show Quality Texel boars, between three and five weeks old. Click the picture of the texel to see more pictures, descriptions and prices.

And more pigs. Abyssinians and Teddies.

Keep checking back. I'm adding more to the list, including some great texel sow babies.

Baby Texels

All of the baby Sunflower sows are now sold or reserved. The two boars, which have nice curls, are for sale. I can deliver them to the PaSRBA show in February.

The next litter is due in about two weeks — best guess since I don't know the exact conception date. The dam is a Tortoise Shell sow from Jim Hupp's line and the boar is Giddings, a Galatea broken Red & White, who took RIS at the Balitmore & Howard Show last year. There are already two folks on the wait list for sows from this litter.

Baby Texels

Finally got these up. Sorry for the wait. My boys got home from pre-school, ate lunch, built a nest of blankets in the family room and fell asleep. But now I hear noises, so enjoy the pictures. There are two litters, one from approximately Jan. 2, 2005. The second litter was born here in the early pre-dawn Sunday morning, 1/9/05. We got mom here just in time. Click the picture to get to the photo album with descriptions and prices.

New Texels

I am picking up some new Texels today, including some 1-2 week old babies. Five Red/Wh Sows, and a TSW boar. Some of these will be for sale. More details soon. I have a waiting list for sows already, so if you're interested please let me know right away.
Thanks. Pictures and details when I get them.

[Update: 1/9/05] There are six adult texels in all, five Red/Wh sows and a TSW boar. In addition the three babies are all sows. And then this morning, another sow gave birth to two Red/Wh boars and a little TSW sow. These will all be available when weaned. However, as of now all of the baby sows are reserved. If you are interested please let me know ASAP. I have another litter due in about three weeks, and then it will be a month or so before more babies.

I'm taking pictures tomorrow. Today I'm cleaning cages.