၀က္ကေလးေတြခ်စ္စရာ.... အိမ္မွာေမြးခ်င္စရာ... Tiny porkers with a big price tag: £700 'micro-pigs' are the latest celebrity pet craze

၀က္ကေလးေတြခ်စ္စရာ.... အိမ္မွာေမြးခ်င္စရာ...

Tiny porkers with a big price tag: £700 'micro-pigs' are the latest celebrity pet craze

လက္ဘက္ရည္ခြက္သာသာရွိတဲ ့၀က္ကေလးမ်ား....

Cute: Tiny pigs the size of tea cups are the latest pet craze sweeping across Britain

ေႀကာင္ထက္ေတာင္ေသးပါေသးတယ္....

Pet with a difference: The micro pigs (pictured with an average sized cat) are much smaller than a standard farm pig and weigh 9oz when they are born

တစ္ကယ္အရြယ္ေရာက္လာၿပန္ေတာ ့လည္း ႀကက္တစ္ေကာင္ရဲ ့အရပ္ေလာက္ပဲၿမင္ ့ပါတယ္...

A 'fully grown' micro pig: The breed, even when they reach maturity, grow to just 14 inches tall

စည္သြပ္ဗူးနဲ နင္လားငါလားပဲ....

မတ္ခြက္နဲ ့ သူနဲ ့ ......

ၿဗိတိန္နုိင္ငံတြင္ လက္ဘက္ရည္ပန္းကန္လံုးအရြယ္အစားသာသာမွ်သာရွိေသာ ခ်စ္စရာ
၀က္ပုကေလးမ်ားအား အိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္အၿဖစ္ ေမြးၿမဴၿခင္းသည္ ယခုအခါအလြန္ေခတ္
စားေနသည္ဟုဆုိသည္...
အဆုိပါ၀က္ပုေလးမ်ား မည္မွ်ေခတ္စားေနသနည္းဆုိလွ်င္ ၿဗိတိန္နုိင္ငံတြင္၀ယ္သူမ်ားလြန္း
သၿဖင္ ့အလြန္ပင္ရွားပါးနၿပီး ေရာင္းေစ်းမွာလည္း တစ္ေကာင္လွ်င္ စတာလင္ေပါင္ ၇၀၀
( ေဒၚလာ ၁၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္  )မွ်ရွိသည္ဟုဆုိသည္...

အရြယ္ေရာက္သည္ ့တုိင္ေအာင္ အၿမင္ ့ဆယ္ ့ေလးလက္မွ်သာရွိသည္ ့ အဆုိပါ၀က္ပုေလးမ်ားကုိ
နာမည္ေက်ာ္အနုပညာရွင္မ်ားၿဖစ္သည္ ့ ဟယ္ရီေပၚတာရုပ္ရွင္မွ Ron Weasley အၿဖစ္သရုပ္
ေဆာင္သည္ ့ Rupert Grint  အစရွိသူမ်ားကပါ ၀ယ္ယူလွ်က္ရွိသည္ဟုဆုိပါသည္...

၀က္ပုေလးေတြအတြက္ ၀ယ္ယူမွာႀကားသူေတြမ်ားလြန္းလုိ ့ ကြ်န္မတုိ ့မွာေန ့စဥ္နဲ ့အမွ် ေရာင္းဖုိ ့
ရွိေသးလားလုိ ့ စံုစမ္းေမးၿမန္းသူေတြကုိေၿဖႀကားေနရတာမနုိင္မနင္းၿဖစ္ေနရပါတယ္လုိ ့ သူမရဲ ့မူလ
အလုပ္ကေနထြက္ၿပီး အဆုိပါ၀က္ပုေလးမ်ားကုိ အခ်ိန္ၿပည္ ့မ်ဴိးေဖာက္ေရာင္းေနသူ Jane Croft
( အသက္ ၄၂ ႏွစ္ ) ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

အခုလုိ၀က္ပုေလးမ်ားကုိအိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္အၿဖစ္လူေတြအရူးအမူးႏွစ္ၿခဳိက္လာတာရုတ္တရက္ႀကီး
ၿဖစ္လာတာမုိ ့အံ ့ႀသစရာပါပဲ... “

၀က္ပုေလးမ်ားဟာပံုမွန္ေမြးၿမဴေရး၀က္မ်ားထက္အရြယ္အစားအလြန္ေသးငယ္ႀကၿပီးေမြးစမွာဆုိလွ်င္
၉ ေအာင္စ သာသာပဲေလးၿပီး လက္ဘက္ရည္အခ်ဴိပန္းကန္းလံုးခန္ ့အရြယ္အစားသာရွိပါတယ္...
အသက္ႏွစ္ႏွစ္မွာ သူတုိ ့ဟာအၿပည္ ့အစံုထြားႀကဳိင္းႀကၿပီး အေလးခ်ိန္ ေပါင္ ၄၀ မွ ၆၅ အထိရွိၿပီး
အၿမင္ ့ကလည္း ၁၂ လက္မ ကေန ၁၆ လက္မ လူေတြရဲ ့ဒူးေခါင္းအထိေလာက္ပဲရွိတတ္ႀကပါတယ္...

သူတုိ ့ဟာ သက္တမ္းဆယ္ ့ရွစ္ႏွစ္သာ ေနထုိင္အသက္ရွင္ၿပီး ၿပဳစုေစာင္ ့ေရွာက္ရတာ ကရိကထ
နည္းၿခင္း၊ တိတ္တိတ္ဆိတ္ဆိတ္ေနတတ္ၿခင္းနဲ ့ သန္ ့သန္ ့ရွင္းရွင္းေနတတ္ၿခင္းတုိ ့ေႀကာင္ ့ခ်စ္
စရာအိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္ အၿဖစ္နာမည္ေက်ာ္လူႀကဳိက္မ်ားလာရတာပါတဲ ့...
သူတုိ ့ကုိေမြးထားၿပီးယင္ ေခြးမ်ားလုိအေညာင္းေၿပလမ္းလည္းလုိက္ေလွ်ာက္ေပးစရာမလိုဘူး
က်န္းမာေရးအတြက္လည္းဘာမွမပူပင္ရပါဘူး....

သူတုိ ့ဟာအသံလည္းဆူဆူညံညံသိပ္မလုပ္ပါဘူး...အိမ္သာအခင္းသြားတတ္ဖုိ ့လည္းက်င္ ့ေပးရ
တာအလြန္လြယ္ကူပါတယ္...သူတုိ ့ကုိသံေယာဇဥ္ၿဖစ္သြားတာနဲ ့တစ္ကယ္ကုိခ်စ္ဖုိ ့ေကာင္းေတာ ့
တာပါပဲ...
သူတုိ ့ဟာ အလြန္ကုိသန္ ့သန္ ့ရွင္းရွင္းေနတတ္ၿပီး သူတုိ ့ေနရာကုိဘယ္ေတာ ့မွ ညစ္ပတ္ရွဳပ္
ပြေအာင္မလုပ္တတ္လုိ ့ အလြန္ကိုခ်စ္ဖုိ ့ေကာင္းပါတယ္တဲ ့...

သူတုိ ့ဟာ လူ၊ေမ်ာက္၊လင္းပုိင္း တုိ ့ၿပီးလွ်င္ စတုတၳေၿမာက္အသိဥာဏ္အၿမင္ ့ဆံုး သတၱ၀ါေတြ
ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...
ေခြးထက္ေတာင္မွအရြယ္ငယ္ေသးတဲ ့ ၀က္ပုကေလးမ်ားဟာ တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့ေခြးေတြေႀကာင္ေတြနဲ ့
ဓါတ္မတည္ ့တဲ ့ေရာဂါရွိသူမ်ားအတြက္ေတာ ့တစ္ကယ္ ့ကုိအစားထုိးအိမ္ေမြးတိရိစာၦန္ပါပဲ...
တစ္ခ်ဴိ ့သူမ်ားကေခြးေတြေႀကာင္ေတြနဲ ့ဓါတ္မတည္ ့တတ္ႀကပါဘူး...ဒါေပမယ္ ့၀က္နဲ ့ဓါတ္
မတည္ ့တာေတာ ့မရွိပါဘူး...ဘာၿဖစ္လုိ ့လည္းဆိုေတာ ့ ၀က္အေရၿပားနဲ ့လူရဲ ့အေရၿပား
ဟာ သေဘာသဘာ၀ခ်င္းဆင္တူၿပီး သူတုိ ့မွာ ေခြးေတြေႀကာင္ေတြလုိအေမြးမဟုတ္တဲ ့လူ ့
အေမြးလုိမ်ဴိး အေမြးမ်ားသာရွိလုိ ့ပါပဲ...

အခုေတာ ့ေခြးအေမႊး၊ေႀကာင္အေမႊးေတြနဲ ့ဓါတ္မတည္ ့တဲ ့သားသမီးမ်ားရွိတဲ ့မိဘေတြက သူတုိ ့
ဆီက ၀က္ပုေလးေတြကုိပဲလာ၀ယ္ေနႀကပါၿပီလုိ ့ လြန္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ငါးလေလာက္က အဆိုပါ၀က္ပုသား
ေဖာက္မ်ဴိးပြား ေမြးၿမဴေရးကုိစတင္ခဲ ့တဲ ့ Christchurch အရပ္က Little Pig Far ( ၀က္ကေလး
မ်ားေမြးၿမဴေရးၿခံ ပုိင္ရွင္ Miss Croft ကေၿပာႀကားခဲ ့ပါတယ္...

သူမမွာယခုေလာေလာဆယ္ ၀က္ပုေလးအေကာင္ ၅၀ မွ်သားေဖာက္ထားၿပီး ၀ယ္ယူမွာႀကားသူေတြ
ရဲ ့အလုိဆႏၵၿပည္ ့၀ရေအာင္ တစ္ေန ့လွ်င္ ၁၄ နာရီ၊တစ္ပတ္ ၇ ရက္၊နားရက္မရွိပဲ အလုပ္လုပ္ေန
ရပါတယ္....သူမရဲ ့လုပ္ငန္းကုမၸဏီ ၀က္ဘ္ဆုိဒ္ ( ၀က္ေရာင္းတဲ ့၀က္ဆုိဒ္ေပါ ့ေနာ္...) ဟာတစ္ပတ္ကုိ လာေရာက္
လည္ပတ္သူ ၄၀၀၀ မွ်ရွိၿပီး တစ္ေန ့ကုိ e-mail အေစာင္ ၆၀ နဲ ့ phone calls အႀကိမ္ ၄၀ အထိ
အေမရိကား၊ ရုရွား၊ စပိန္နဲ ့ႀသေတးလ် အစရိွတဲ ့နုိင္ငံမ်ားကေနေမးၿမန္းစံုးစမ္းေနႀကပါတယ္...

သူမဟာ၀က္ေတြကုိ အၿမဲတမ္းပဲခ်စ္ခင္ႏွစ္သက္ခဲ ့ပါတယ္တဲ ့...သူမရဲ ့အႀကဳိက္ဆံုးအဆုိအမိန္ ့က
ေတာ ့ ၀င္စတန္ခ်ာခ်ီရဲ ့ ” လူနဲ ့၀က္ဟာအတူတူပဲ ” ဆုိတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္...သူမဟာတစ္ခါတစ္ရံ
၀က္ေမြးၿမဴေရးလုပ္ခဲ ့တာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၁၅ႏွစ္ရွိခဲ ့ပါၿပီလုိ ့ Miss Croft ကရွင္းၿပခဲ ့ပါတယ္..

၀က္ပုေလးေတြကုိတီဗီမွာၿမင္လုိက္ရကတည္းက တစ္ခါတည္းႏွစ္ၿခဳိက္သေဘာက်သြား ခဲ ့တာပါပဲ...
အဲဒီတံုးက အၿပင္မွာအလြယ္တစ္ကူ ၀ယ္လုိ ့မရတာမုိ ့ကုိယ္ကုိယ္တုိင္ပဲသားေဖာက္ေမြးၿမဴၿဖစ္ခဲ ့
တာပါလုိ ့လည္းသူမကဆုိပါတယ္...

၀က္ပုေလးေတြကုိတီဗီမွာၿမင္လုိက္ရကတည္းက တစ္ခါတည္းႏွစ္ၿခဳိက္သေဘာက်သြား ခဲ ့တာပါပဲ...
အဲဒီတံုးက အၿပင္မွာအလြယ္တစ္ကူ ၀ယ္လုိ ့မရတာမုိ ့ကုိယ္ကုိယ္တုိင္ပဲသားေဖာက္ေမြးၿမဴၿဖစ္ခဲ ့
တာပါလုိ ့လည္းသူမကဆုိပါတယ္...

သူမဟာ သူမရဲ ့အၿဖစ္ခ်င္ဆံုးစိတ္ကူးယဥ္အိပ္မက္ထဲကဆႏၵၿဖစ္တဲ ့၀က္ပုေလးေတြ မ်ဴိးစပ္ေမြး
ၿမဴနုိင္ဖုိ ့လေပါင္းမ်ားစြာသုေတသနၿပဳခဲ ့ရၿပီး အခုအခါမွာေတာ ့ေအာင္ၿမင္စြာၿပဳလုပ္နုိင္ခဲ ့ပါၿပီ...

အဆုိပါ ၀က္ပုေလးမ်ား မ်ဴိးရဖုိ ့အတြက္ အသားတုိး၀က္မ်ဴိးေတြၿဖစ္တဲ ့ Tamworth, Kune Kune
နဲ ့ Gloucester Old Spot မ်ဴိးေတြကုိအႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ မ်ဴိးစပ္ၿပီး လုိခ်င္တဲ ့အေရာင္စံု၀က္ကေလး
မ်ားၿဖစ္ေအာင္ႀကဳိးစားခဲ ့ရၿပီး အခုေတာ ့တစ္ေကာင္ကုိ ေပါင္စတာလင္ ၁၉၅ ကေန ၇၀၀ အတြင္း
ေရာင္းခ်နုိင္ခဲ ့ပါၿပီတဲ ့....

သူတုိ ့ဟာအစားအစာကုိေကာင္းစြာစားနုိင္ႀကၿပီး သူတုိ ့နဲ ့အတူအရုပ္ကေလးမ်ားထားေပးၿခင္း
ကုိႏွစ္သက္ကာတစ္ခ်ဴိ ့ကေတာ ့သူတုိ ့ အိမ္တဲ ့ေနရာေလးေတြမွာ ေရဒီယုိေလးမ်ားေတာင္တပ္
ထားေပးတတ္ႀကပါေသးတယ္...
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 မူရင္းကေတာ ့ဒီလုိပါဗ်ာ....
Tiny pigs the size of tea cups are the latest pet craze sweeping across Britain.
The must-have micro pigs have become so popular they are almost impossible to get hold of in the UK and sell for up to £700 each.

The adorable animals, which grow to just 14in tall, are being snapped up by celebrities, including Harry Potter actor Rupert Grint, who plays Ron Weasley.
‘Demand for micro pigs is soaring and we are inundated with inquiries every day," says Jane Croft, 42, who has given up her job to breed them full time.
‘It's amazing how popular they have suddenly become and just how many people want pigs as pets.’
Micro pigs are much smaller than a standard farm pig and weigh 9oz, about the size of a tea cup when they are born.
At two years old they are fully grown and weigh in around 40-65lb and are around knee height at 12-16in tall.
They can live for up to 18 years, but make popular pets as they are low maintenance, quiet and surprisingly clean.

‘Micro pigs make fantastic pets as they are very low maintenance. You don't have to take them for walks and they have very few health issues,’ said Miss Croft.

‘They don't make much noise, they are easy to toilet train and once they have bonded with you they are very loving.
‘They are actually very clean and never mess in their bedding and are just so adorable.

‘They are also highly intelligent and are the fourth most intelligent species after man, monkey and dolphin.

‘They really are the perfect pets, I don't know why people haven't thought of them before.’

Micro pigs, which grow no bigger than a Labrador, are also good alternative pets for people with allergies.

‘Lots of people are allergic to cats and dogs but you can't get allergies from pigs as their skin is very similar to ours, and the have hair not fur,’ Miss Croft.

‘We've had many parents buy pigs for their children who suffer from fur allergies,’ Miss Croft set up her micro pig breeding business five months ago at Little Pig Farm in Christchurch, Cambs.

She currently has 50 micro pigs, have been working 14 hours a day, seven days a week to keep up with demand.

Her company website has been getting 4,000 hits a week and she gets at least 60 e-mails and 40 phone calls a day from people all over the world, including America, Russia, Spain and even Australia.

‘I have always adored pigs and I love the famous Winston Churchill quote about a pig being man's equal. I have been breeding pigs on and off as a hobby for 15 years,’ said Miss Croft.

'I saw some micro pigs on television and fell in love with them. They have become so popular as pets they were impossible to get hold of so I began breeding them myself.


‘I spent months researching and finding suitable pigs and now at last I am able to do my dream job full-time.’

The pigs are crosses of Miniature Pot Bellied pigs with Tamworths, Kune Kunes and Gloucester Old Spots to create their tiny, colourful Micro Pigs, which are sold for between £195 and £700.

They enjoy good food, lots of toys and even have Classic FM piped to their bedrooms.

The size of the piglets get smaller with every litter with Peanut the piglet believed to be one of the tiniest adult pigs in Europe.

The little pig, who weighed just under 2kg at twelve weeks old, now lives indoors with Miss Croft as a companion to her dog and sleeps on the sofa.

At 13 months she has almost stopped growing and is just 12 inches tall.

‘They really are fantastic fun, highly sociable and make amazing pets,’ said Miss Croft.

'They will sit on your lap while you watch TV so you can scratch their belly. They will even talk to you and have you giggling for hours.'