We let Brodie buy a new guinea pig a few weeks back from the same pet shop & from the "girls" pen. We thought that Popcorn could use a buddy because guinea pigs are social creatures. We ended up with Hiccup.
As you can now see from the photos that one of the guinea pigs is now a Mum! Hiccup got awfully fat like Jade did. When Brodie went into the cage today (he's a slacker and had not checked the cage properly for a few days) imagine our surprise when he called us into the bedroom to check out the guinea pigs. There are FOUR of them now!
Mark is currently adding a divider to the cage. We want to keep Mum & Dad apart. No MORE babies for them. I have no idea how to check if the babies are boys or girls. I'm crossing my fingers, toes & eyes and hoping that the kids are the same sex!
Oh boy do I want to have words with the pet shop owners!!!!! Does anyone want a guinea pig or two or three or even four??
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we would happily take a couple but we live in New Smyrna Beach, FL USA. i dearly love guinea pigs
bearsjewels, just a little too far to send them to you :)
OOPS!!! LOL
Yes Poetess a BIG oops lol
Too funny!! Sad about the first one though. ((HUGS))
Guess you got a good April Fool's, huh!
Holly I can see the funny side of things now :)
Beverly I guess we did get pranked lol
LOl - the fun and games of guinea pigs!
To tell boys from girls - turn them upside down and poke around the nether regions - when you pess on one bit - you get an inverted penis - Probably need to be shown how - but it is quite easy to tell the diffenece ;)
Now you have mum and dad - remember that mum - won't have any problems being jumped by son - I;m not sure when maturity is - so you may want to watch that also!
Good luck
Thanks Heather. I managed to find a great guinea pig website that showed what the female and male genitals look like. I guess I just need to check what mum & dad look like to be sure and then I will be able to check the kids out a little later on.
From what I have read. It seems that from around 3 weeks of age guinea pigs can start breeding but I'm hoping I miss read it because that seems awfully young.
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