Baby pic

[Iggy]

The little duiker, Tinks, mentioned a couple of weeks ago seems to be doing very well, and has taken a liking to our little chicken PiPi

[Bushbaby]

Ah sweet!! They are such lovely animals. Glad he is doing well.

[Michelle]

Ah Wow its gorgeous. You are very fortunate to have the opportunity to experience life with such a precious creature!

[Leos r gr8]

You are so lucky! They both look healthy

[Bushviper]

I really hope it is a little ewe. If it is a ram do not give it much attention and smack it when it is ready to be weaned. It sounds cruel but there is a very very good reason for this.

We had one who had a record as long as your arm. He had killed a rottweiler, attacked and hospitalised 3 people, terrorised a Boerbul and made an adult kalahari ostrich side step him. The only animal that gave him a good hiding was a black footed cat that clung onto his face and slapped him silly with the right paw.

Eventually we had a piece of hose pipe glued to the horns to stop any staff or visitors getting injured. I saw one kill a goat with one swift stab to the groin area.

I am assuming you could castrate him now if you want to keep him near people or else get a big camp and get him a girlfriend. They are almost impossible to rehabilitate.

[Leos r gr8]

I don't want to be argumentative BV but I have seen many of these guys handreared with relative ease and then released successfuly, I do agree that the males are agro little things though

[Bushviper]

Depends which kind of Duiker. Blue duikers are the best and stay honeys their whole life. You can take the babies away from the mother and sit next to her while checking it. She gets excited while it screams (which is ear splitting) but will not attack you at all. They do not reject their babies either.

Greys are a lot more feisty and once they have lost their fear of humans they become a problem. If you have a massive area for the Duiker to roam it may eventually become wary of humans but I suspect most of the rehab animals end up in the pot.

[Iggy]

we'll wait a little while and see what happens, as it is, as he grows he will be able to mix with the others on the property as they also wander through our yard and are calm but not tame. We have though just made the difficult decision to have our remaining male warthog castrated, as he is getting a bit pushy and his tusks are just starting to get sharp, while the female is very gentle.

[Iggy]

and they tend to "hog' the couch!!

[Iggy]

hopefully the little duiker will pick up a girlfriend, we have a little one eyed one who is quite often around in the vicinity...

[Bushviper]

Possibly if the other duiker teach him what it is to be a duiker he might not become a problem. Lets hold thumbs.

Pity about the warthog because now there wont be more. I have seen pushy females too especially when there are babies around. This way you will avoid both those problems, so maybe it was better to do this.

[Leos r gr8]

Sorry about that, yes BV I was talking about the blue duiker, I wasn't aware that the grey was so agro! They sound like awful little guys to have as pets, then again-no wild animal should ever be concidered as a pet.
How are your leo tortoise eggs doing Iggy?

[Iggy]

still watching and waiting....

[Leos r gr8]

I can remember you saying that you had 50 eggs, were they all laid at once? because in my research, it says that they lay 20 eggs at most!

[Iggy]

3 clutches...