Your Garden Hedgehogs

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by JooMoo » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:11 pm

I was thinking of
Ethel
Fred
George
Harold
Ida
Joe
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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Fri Aug 14, 2015 12:33 pm

This would be great for "Four-Letter Sentence" :)

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by nuthatch » Fri Aug 14, 2015 2:56 pm

Kitty
Lydia
Myrtle

(Apologies to Willpar's Hedgehogs topic but they do seem to need cataloguing :nod: :hedgehog: )

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Jacksparrow » Fri Aug 14, 2015 8:28 pm

I rather think that naming ones Hogs has some merit and willpar may well take up the practice himself. :nod: :yes:

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by JooMoo » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:23 pm

Ethel has just been marked :)
She's a right porker :hedgehog:
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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Mon Aug 17, 2015 9:52 pm

Jacksparrow wrote:I rather think that naming ones Hogs has some merit and willpar may well take up the practice himself. :nod: :yes:
Thing is though, maybe neutral names are best ....... such as, Dylan, Hilary, Ashley -

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Tue Aug 18, 2015 7:22 am

Never really took up naming the hedgehogs that visit. With the exception of tiny, way back in the old place. Just refer them as " hedgies" now adays.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by JooMoo » Tue Aug 18, 2015 12:12 pm

Placido wrote:
Jacksparrow wrote:I rather think that naming ones Hogs has some merit and willpar may well take up the practice himself. :nod: :yes:
Thing is though, maybe neutral names are best ....... such as, Dylan, Hilary, Ashley -

Some of my spring bunch had name changes once I worked out who was doing what to who.

Perhaps I should log which ones scrap and which ones dance and which ones ignore each other to do one of those logic puzzles to work out male or female.
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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by JooMoo » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:02 pm

I think the one at the bottom of the wall is Fred as he doesn't seem to have marks.





This was 10 minutes later. I'd always thought that one of my hogs was missing an eye. I spotted it last night and went out and had a good look. I couldn't see an eyeball. This was taken later on and you can see the one of the left only has one glowing eye. You can see why ...........

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by JooMoo » Wed Aug 19, 2015 7:16 pm

So Betty is the one-eyed one. Doris is the huffy puffy one and Fred is the third one.

Can we work out from those distinct behaviours which is male and which is female?
I'd guess Doris is female and Betty and Fred are male as they are fighting.
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