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Sunday 25th November 2007.
Today was the Dorking show. We had a lovely day and were pleased with our results.
Purebreeds
Pharoah - 2nd in his class and 3rd in the U5 L/H Challenge.
Moonshine - 2nd in her class.
Lara - 2nd in her class.
Whistle - 2nd in her class and 2nd in the5/8 L/H Challenge.
Sunset Meadow - 1st in her class, 1st in the U5 M/T/S/AOV/F/S Challenge, 3rd in the U5 Non Self Challenge and 3rd in the U5 AV Grand Challenge.
Pets
Liliana - 1st in her class and 3rd in the 5/8 AV Challenge Pet.
Sunday 11th November 2007.
An excellent day for the Manor piggies....
We travelled to Reading for the Four Points Show and enjoyed a quiet but very friendly show.
Purebreeds
Freebie - 1st in her class and 1st in the U5 Self Challenge.
Lara - 1st in her class, 1st in the 5/8 Self Challenge and 2nd in the AA Self Challenge. Lara took 5th Best in Show.
Moonshine - 2nd in her class.
Sunset Meadow - 1st in her class and 2nd in the U5 Non Self Challenge.
Pharoah - 1st in his class, 1st in the U5 Non Self Challenge, 3rd in the AA Non Self Challenge and 3rd in the Grand Challenge. Pharoah took 3RD BEST IN SHOW.
Eden - 2nd in her class, 2nd in the 5/8 Non Self Challenge, 2nd in the AA Non Self Challenge and 2nd in the Grand Challenge. Eden took RESERVE BEST IN SHOW.
Whistle - 1st in her class, 1st in the 5/8 Non elf Challenge, 1st in the AA Non Self Challenge and 1st in the Grand Challenge. Whistle took BEST IN SHOW!!!
Pets
Liliana - 1st in her class, 2nd in the 5/8 Challenge and 2nd in the Pet Challenge.
Sunday 4th November 2007.
It was the Kent Coast show today and we have a great day with friends and with our piggies...
Purebreeds
Lara - 1st in her class out of 3.
Freebie - 2 nd in her class out of 4.
Eden - 1st in her class, 1st in the 5/8 LH Challenge and 2nd in the AA LH Challenge out of 6.
Pharoah - 1st in his class, 2nd in the U5 LH Challenge and 3rd in the AA LH Challenge out of 6.
Whistle - 2nd in her class out of 3.
Sunset Meadow - 1st in her class, 1st in the U5 Satin Challenge, 3rd in the AA Satin Challenge and 2nd in the AV Non-Self Challenge out of 26.
Moonshine - 2nd in her class and 2nd in the U5 Satin Challenge out of 6.
Pets
Freckle - 2nd in her class and 2nd in the U5 Challenge out of 7.
Liliana - 1st in her class, 2nd in the 5/8 Challenge, 1st in the AA Sow Challenge, 2nd in the AA Members Points Challenge and 2nd in the AA Rosette Challenge out of 44. (Trophy!)
Sunday 7th October 2007.
We enjoyed a lovely day at the Epsom show. Our piggies did really well and we came home very proud of them as usual!!!
Purebreeds
Lara - 1st in her class, 2nd in the PEW/CR/BLK/PEG 5/8 challenge and 2nd in the self AC 5/8 challenge.
Eden - 1st in her class, 1st in the R/LH 5/8 challenge and 2nd in the non-self 5/8 challenge.
Whistle - 1st in her class, 2nd in the R/LH U5 challenge, 2nd in the non-self AV U5 challenge and 3rd in the non-self AV/AA challenge. Whistle also took Best of Breed Alpaca and came 5th Best in Show.
Moonshine - 2nd in her class.
Sunset Meadow - 1st in her class and 3rd in the marked/ticked AOV U5 challenge.
Pets
Phoebe - 2nd in her class.
Forest - 2nd in his class.
Celeste - 2nd in her class.
Freckle - 1st in her class and 2nd in the AV U5 challenge. Freckle took 5th Best Pet overall.
And we musn't forget our little rescue pig who took 2nd in his class and 4th Best Rescue overall.
Sunday 22nd September 2007.
Today was our local show, Higham.
We didn't take many piggies, just one PEW, one Longhair and one satin. We felt strange not having many longhairs to groom but still had a great day enjoying the good company and catching up with everyones news...
Lara - 1st in her class.
Eden - 2nd in her class.
Sunset Meadow - 3rd in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Sunday 9th September 2007.
We enjoyed a quiet but exciting day at Marsh Farm today. We had lots of fun on the farm and were really pleased with our results.
Eden - 1st in her class, 1st in the U5 longhair challenge, 2nd in the AA longhair challenge and 2nd in the U5 AV chalenge.
Freckle - 1st in her class, 2nd in the U5 longhair challenge and 3rd in the AA longhair challenge.
Guylian - 1st in his class, 1t in the Ad longhair challenge, 1st in the AA longhair challenge, 1st in the N/S AA challenge, 1st in the AV Ad challenge, 1st in the AV AA Boar challenge and 2nd in the Grand Challenge. Guylian was placed RESERVE BEST IN SHOW.
Lara - 1st in her class, 1st in the PEW/CR/PEG 5/8 challenge, 1st in the AC 5/8 self challenge, 1st in the AC AA self challenge, 1st in the AA Sow challenge and 1st in the Grand Challenge. Lara was placed BEST IN SHOW.
Sunday 22nd July 2007.
We went to Epsom today and had a lovely day chatting to friends and having a giggle. It was a really busy show so there was plenty to see and do and lots of fun to be had. We were also very lucky to pick up our new alpaca sow, Whistle from Sally Nye.
Our piggies did us proud again....
Purebreeds
Guylian - 1st in his class out of 1!!!
Axel - 1st in his class out of 1, and took Best of Breed.
Wyatt - 1st in his class out of 2, and took Best of Breed.
Eden - 1st in her class, 1st in her Rough/LH Challenge U5 out of 21, 1st in the Non-self AV U5 out of 39, 3rd in the Non-self Challenge AA/AV out of 159. Eden was then placed 5th Best In Show and took Best of Breed.
Kenny - 2nd in his class out of 4.
Dolly - 3rd in her class out of 4.
Olivia - Unplaced. :(
Lara - 1st in her class out of 4.
Pets
Darcy - 3rd in her class out of 4.
Cinders - 3rd in her class out of 4.
Nevada - 2nd in his class out of 5.
Saturday 14th July 2007.
Today we travelled to Essex for the Tendering show. It was a long day but with all our piggies being placed it was definatley worth it. We were really proud of Kenny, who on his first show outing took Best of Breed English Crested.
Olivia- 1st in her class and 2nd in the AOC 5/8 challenge out of 3.
Lara - 1st in her class, 2nd in the PEW/C/B/PEG U5 challenge, 2nd in the AC U5 self challenge, 2nd in the AC AA self challenge, 2nd in the U5 challenge out of 25 and 2nd in the AV AA sow challenge out of 24. Lara came 4th Best In Show.
Kenny - 1st in his class, 1st in the AV U5 crested challenge and 1st in the AA AA crested challenge out of 5.
Dolly Daydream - 2nd in her class, 2nd in the AV U5 crested challenge and 3rd in the AA AV crested challenge out of 5.
Guylian - 1st in his class, 2nd in the AV 5/8 L/H challenge and 3rd in the AV AA L/H challenge out of 8.
Axel - 2nd in his class and 3rd in the AV U5 L/H challenge out of 5.
Eden - 1st in her class and 2nd in the AV U5 L/H challenge out of 5.
Wyatt - 3rd in his class out of 4.
After a nightmare journey home, we were thrilled to find that Phoebe had littered and was nursing the cutest bubs ever. 2 silver agouti and white and 2 silver agouti, cream and white merinos. Even more exciting is that we have been trying to breed this colour since we started breeding cavies!!!
Tuesday 10th July 2007.
Today Forget-me-not finally littered and is now mum to two very attractive coronet boars. One is lemon agouti & white and the other chocolate, cream and white. Both are very good weights and are happily snuggled up to their proud mummy as she munches on some melon!
Sunday 1st July 2007.
What a day....We were just about to set off to London to attend the 'Concert for Diana' when Ivy went into labour! Ofcourse we had to stay and watch! I am glad we did as we saw Ivy produce a two lovely peruvian sows (one nearly comnpletley black!) and a peruvian boar. Once we knew Ivy and the bubs were okay we set off for the Wembley and had a fantastic time at the concert!
Tuesday 26th June 2007.
Finally, Moon Flower has littered. She has has two lovely merino sows. Both have beautiful colours. Mum and bubs are doing well!
Saturday 23rd June 2007.
More new piggies. This time from Sue (Cuttings Cavies). Paul chose two gorgeous new alpacas to complete our breeding stock for our new alpaca programme. We also picked up a sheltie and coronet who were the babies of Lucy Lou (Sues silver agouti coronet sow) and our precious Leo. Both Lucy Lou and Leo have since passed away so these youngsters are very precious and will allow us to keep our line going.
Friday 22nd June 2007.
After work we popped up to Sally's (Kimberley Cavies) to collect our new alpaca sow that Sally had very kindly collected for us. Cinders is orange and white, her picture has been added to the alpacas page.
Wednesday 20th June 2007.
More peruvians!!! This evening Red littered down and had three stunning bubs. Two boars and a sow.
Tuesday 19th June 2007.
Holly presented her first litter today. We only anticipated a small litter but bless Holly she has had four adorable babies. Three sows and one boar and all are perfect peruvians!
Thursday 7th June 2007.
Lots of babies!!! Today both Gypsy Rose and Bluebell littered down. Between them they had 8 bubs, 6 to Bluebell (sadly 2 were stillborn) and 2 to Gypsy Rose. Pictures have been added to the nursery page.
Sunday 3rd June 2007.
The Essex Cavy Club held their show at Marsh Farm today. We travelled up for this show with a handful of purebreeds, our first time at this venue. We enjoyed the farm surroundings and pleasant company, it was fun to catch up with friends.
We were extremely pleased with todays results.
Wyatt - 3rd in his class out of 6.
Eden - Unplaced.
Charmed - 1st in her class out of 2 but unplaced in the U5 longhaired challenge.
Axel - 1st in his class out of 6, 1st in the U5,AV longhaired challenge out of 9 and 2nd in the AA, AV longhaired challenge out of 10.
Guylian - 1st in his class out of 1, 1st in the 5/8, AV longhaired challenge out of 1, 1st in the AA, AV longhaired challenge out of 10, 1st in the 5/8 AV challenge out of 34, 1st in the AA, AV non-self challenge out of 71, 1st in the AA, AV boar out of 55 and finally he came 1st in the Grand Challenge AA, AV out of 106.....Well done Guylian, our first BEST IN SHOW!!!!!!!!
Liliana - 2nd in her class out of 3.
Lara - 1st in her class out of 3, 1st in the PEW/CR/BL/PEG U5 challenge out of 10, 1st in the self AC, U5 challenge out of 18 and 2nd in the AV, U5 challenge out of 40.
Dolly - 2nd in her class out of 3.
Friday 1st June 2007.
Today whilst dropping off a peruvain sow for Sally (Kimberley Cavies), we managed to fall in love with and adopt a beautiful texel sow! She has been named Pink Champagne!!!
After stopping for a coffee and enjoying a chat with Vicky (CHIVE), we, along with Karen (Dorcilamus) ventured up to Jo's (Pinnygigs) in Maidstone. We had a lovely time catching up on all her piggy news and brought home our new sheltie sow Tallulah, thank you Jo!
Sunday 27th May 2007.
We enjoyed a rainy yet laughter filled day at the Higham show today.
Our piggies did really well but we were thrilled with the success of our three new members to our show team, Wyatt, Eden and Charmed - all home bred and all placed 1st in their classes and then placed in the U5 longhaired challenge. Wyatt then made it through to the longhaired AA AV challenge!
Purebreeds
Axel - 1st in his class, 2nd in the U5 longhaired challenge.
Wyatt - 1st in his class, 1st in the U5 longhaired challenge and 3rd in the AA AV longhaired challenge.
Eden - 1st in her class.
Charmed - 1st in her class and 3rd in the U5 longhaired challenge.
Guylian - 1st in his class, 2nd in the 5/8 longhaired challenge and 2nd in the AA AV longhaired challenge.
Liliana - 2nd in her class out of 7.
Lara - 1st in her class out of 3.
Dolly - 3rd in her class amd 3rd in the crested challenge AV U5.
Pets
Valentine - 3rd in her class (U5 pet sow)
Mae - 3rd in her class (5/8 pet sow)
We also collected some new piggies... Celeste and Star are from Gardiners Guineas, (their mother Jersey was bred by us so the two young sows will be coming here to live with their grandma Angel). And also Emmy Lou and Olivia who will be joining our growing stud of buffs.
Sunday 20th May 2007.
Today we travelled to the Four Points show in Reading. It was good to see so many enteries this time and we have a lovely day laughing and joking with friends.
We were very pleased with our results...
Lara -1st in her class out of 2 and 1st in the U5 self challenge out of 2.
Dolly - 1st in her class out of 1.
Rosemary - 2nd in her class out of 6.
Charmed - 3rd in her class out of 4.
Axel - 2nd in his class and 2nd in the U5 non-self challenge out of 14.
We were also extremely lucky to pick up two new piggies from Carnival Cavies. A stunning alpaca boar (in show coat) and an adorable alpaca sow. Thank you for our new piggies!
Wednesday 16th May 2007.
Berrie littered today, she presented a stunning black and white texel sow and a chocolate and tan 'satin' sheltie sow. Berrie and her bubs are doing very well.
Saturday 12th May 2007.
Today we travelled to Essex with Sally (Kimberly Cavies) to collect some rescue piggies from Milly Molly. The piggies came to her from a breeder to had to give up. All piggies are from Sharon Flemming's lines. Some of the sows are in pig but thankfully the breeder also handed over records so we do have breeding history.
Monday 7th May 2007.
Another new piggy!!!!!
Thank you to Sally @ Kimberly Cavies for our pretty merino sow, Bluebell.
Bluebell has settled in well with Billie, Angel and Shiva.
Pictures have been updated on the merino page.
Sunday 6th May 2007.
We are pleased to say that after all the events of last weekend that this weekend was lovely!!!
Yesterday we popped into the Dorking show, we didn't show but enjoyed chatting to friends. We delivered the young peruvian boar for Jayne and Julie @ Carnival Cavies and collected a PEW for Sally @ Kimberly Cavies.
On the way home we stopped at Jo's (Pinnygigs) for coffee and enjoyed catching up with her, Naomi (Bernina), Bob and Doris (Hugs) and Kelly (Kelly's Cavies). We were also very lucky to be able to bring home an adorable merino sow Peachy. She is such a cutie and full of character. Thank you Jo for our new piggy.
Saturday 28th April 2007.
We have had a day of mixed emotions today. It started off very well when we went to the shed and found Tink nursing her three gorgeous babies. As a first time mum she is doing really well.
Then at around 8.20am we felts the very scary tremors of the earthquake. We thought that at first, unlike other members of our family that we had been largely unaffected by the quake. It wasn't until mid afternoon when Paul was cleaning out that he noticed Leo seemed a little unwell. He picked him out and Leo had a massive fit in Paul's hand. We can only assume that Leo, who was from the first litter that we every bred had suffered stress from the quake which then resulted in his passing.
We are completley gutted. Leo is and always will be 'Guinea Pig Manor'.
Sunday 15th April 2007.
Show time again! Today was the Epsom show and we enjoyed a lovely day with some very pleasing results.
Purebreeds
Liliana - U5 PEW, took 1st in her class, 3rd in the challenge and 3rd in the AA challenge.
Lara - U5 PEW, took 3rd in her class.
Rosemary - AD Beige Self, took 2nd in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Axel - U5 Alpaca, took 3rd in his class.
Valentine - U5 Merino, took 1st in her class and Best of Breed.
Venus - U5 Texel, took 1st in her class and Best of Breed.
Pets
Red - 5/8 Longhaired Sow, unplaced.
Leo - Ad Longhaired Boar, took 3rd in his class.
Prue - U5 Longhaired Sow, took 1st in her class, 1st in the U5 challenge and 4th in the AA AV challenge. She received two rossettes!
Well done piggies...
Saturday 7th April 2007.
It's Easter weekend and the sun is shining! All the piggies have enjoyed nibbling the grass in the sunshine today and Pea enjoyed playing with Tiger-Lily the tortoise!!!!
Sunday 1st April 2007.
A good day at Higham. All piggies did well in their classes and Leo went through to the challenges in the pet classes.
The highlight of the day was getting a new piggy!! Our lovely crested buff sow came from Anne at 'Guinea Pig Ball'. Thank you for our stunning little piggy.
Tuesday 27th March 2007.
Baby news! Alice littered today. She had 4 adorable peruvian boars. Pictures have been added to the nursery page.
Sunday 25th March 2007.
Today we travelled up to the Mid-Champs show (Loughborough) to collect some new piggies. We brought home Shiva, a PEW coronet who is going Himi, Betsy, a Buff and Lara, a PEW.
Sunday 4th March 2007.
Today was the Four Points Animal Show in Reading. We enjoyed this small but friendly show and our piggies all did really well.
Purebreeds
Moon Flower - 5/8 Merino, took 1st in her class and 2nd in the challenge.
Gypsy Rose - U5 Merino, took 1st in her class, 1st in the challenge, 2nd in the grand challenge and she got a rosette for being reserved Best in Show.
Liliana - U5 PEW, took 1st in her class, 1st in the self U5 challenge and 1st in the self AA challenge.
Santa Fe - U5 Teddy, took 1st in her class and 1st in the challenge.
Pets
Leo - Ad, took 1st in his class and 3rd in the challenge.
Nevada - 5/8, took 2nd in his class.
Holly - U5, took 2nd in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
River - U5, took 1st in his class and 2nd in the challenge.
Well done piggies...extra greens tonight!!!!
Tuesday 27th February 2007.
Exciting news...Phoebe littered today and is now nursing three stunning merino babies. Two boars and a sow all very pretty. This is our first litter of merinos.
Saturday 24th February 2007.
New arrival!!! Today Paul went to Karen's (Dorcilamus) to pick up our new little girl Pru. Pru is the daughter of Karen's piggy Aramis who was bred by GPM!
We are very excited to have little Pru with us, thank you Karen.
Friday 16th February 2007.
Baby news!!! Today Piper littered down and is now the proud mother of three stunning peruvians. Two boars and a sow. Of course the sow will be staying here at the Manor and has already been named 'Pea' as she is soooo tiny!
Mum and bubs are doing very well.
Sunday 11th February 2007.
Well GPM have certainly had a busy weekend this weekend! Yesterday we travelled up to Colchester to pick up two new piggies. Valentine a PEW Merino and Venus a PEW Texel. The sisters are stunning and so sweet natured.
Whilst collecting the girls we also fell in love with and just had to bring home Axel a black and white roan Alpaca boar. He is delicious and has a very good coat so we are hoping that we may also be able to show hom in a few months.
The excitment isnt over yet..oh no! This afternoon we are popping up to Sue at Cuttings Cavies to pick up an alpaca sow that Sue reserved for us. Cant wait to see her!
Sunday 4th February 2007.
We enjoyed a day at the Hassocks show today. Again our piggies did very well.
Purebreeds
Moon Flower - Merino 5/8, took 1st in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Gypsy Rose - Merino U5, took 2nd in her class.
Rosemary - Beige Self Ad, took 2nd in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Liliana - PEW U5, took 1st in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Thursday 1st February 2007.
Today Billie proudly presented her second litter. This time 5 coronets, 4 boars and 1 sow. They are all stunning and have weights ranging from 50g to 125g.
We have chosen to keep the little sow and have named her Charmed after her grandmother Charm who passed away at the beginning of the year.
Pictures of the bubs have been added to the nursery page.
Sunday 21st January 2007.
Today was the Epsom show and our first of 2007.
We took along Nevada and Red who were shown for the fisrt time today along with some of our regulars!
We had some very good results.
Pure breeds
Nevada - Peruvian 5/8, took 1st in his class and Best of Breed.
Red - Peruvian U5, took 1st in her class and 3rd in the challenge.
Moon Flower - Merino 5/8, took 1st in her class and Best of Breed.
Gypsy Rose - Merino U5, took 1st in her class, 1st in the challenge and 3rd in the U5 non-self challenge.
Liliana - PEW U5, took 3rd in her class.
Rosemary - Beige Self Ad, took 2nd in her class.
Pets
Leo - Longhaired Ad, took 3rd in his class.
River - Longahired U5, took 2nd in his class.
Well done piggies!
Saturday 13th January 2007.
Today we visited Nicki at Cavy Heaven. Nicki has some really beautiful piggies and we were very lucky to bring home Orlando and Miami aka Mimi!
Thank you Nicki for our gorgeous new piggies
Saturday 6th January 2007.
We have had a really busy day today. Our new hutches arrived for the shed so we have been busy putting them in and making them perfect for our piggies!
We are really happy with our new look shed and will be adding pictures to our 'About us' page.
Friday 5th January 2007.
Sad news...This afternoon Charm passed away. Charm was our oldest coronet sow. Things really wont be the same without her. Rest in peace Charm.
