hi
could anyone help me as i have very little knowledge on guinea pig, my female guiea pig has had three piglets on monday morning, ive seperated the male strait after the birth of piglets.
could any one let me know how and when to clean the cage without disturbing mother and babys, how ong is it before i clean them out.,
yours wendy517

Guinea pigs aren't like hamsters and they are usually fine with cage cleaning and letting you handle their young - they don't eat them like many rodents do.

Don't forget to post some piccys of your new arrivals.

Also don't forget to remove any male guinea pigs from the litter when they are 3 weeks old or they could breed with their mother.

You would have been better separating the male before she had the piggies because they usually mate again right after the birth so she may be pregnant again unless you actually saw the birth and know that the mating didn't take place.

dear jazzy
I bought a little bottle feeder for piglets
will it be alright if i put it in the cage although the babies are suckling
she seems to be fine the young are feeding on garden mint but I am very choosy at this stage of putting different vegetables in.
I suppose I have to be very careful of what type of veg I introduce to them.
yes Ive actually parted the male as soon as the female was biting away to the cord to part them she was cleaning the up and i found her chewing the cord, the male was over the other side and did not interfer with her at all.
but I had to part him.
hes in the other cage next to her and temporary I had to put him in the big cockatiel cage, they are brother and sister, but the babies are so cute shes being a mum to them.
I do not really want to part with them after seeing what she went through
they are over 2 days old they were born at 7-30 Monday morning I happened to be there just after they were born, so the male did not mate with her as she chewed the cord away in front of me and continued to clean the blood up.
these are the piglet and bramble the mother, bumble is the father.
they are both in seperate cages now.

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here are some photos of bramble and piglets
will get some of bumble the male.
yours wendy517

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aw what pretty piggies!!
My guinea pig had 5 babies saturday night! there so cute!!

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Awwww, so cute.

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dear neza
your families are cute, i used to have a dog but i lost him last november, I did not know that I was going to have guinea pig that would have a family,
I picked 1 up tonight and hold him close to me, he just sat there and bramble the mother did not mind at all, he just relax, Ive never seen amnything so wonderful in my whole life, the way she cleans them,shes certainly a mother to be proud of.
yours wendy517

Baby guinea pigs are a wonderful thing, I completely agree, WENDY517.

My Gert had four and for the three weeks I had them it spent hours holding and cuddling them, they would fall asleep on my chest and burble happily when I stroked them behind their ears. I sort of regret only keeping one of them as a friend for the mom, I wished I had kept two, but at least they went to happy homes.

And hand raised pigs can be so friendly, my Truffle is the sweetest piggy on the planet.

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Dear neza
they are wonderful and so cut, i picked them up or the 1st time yesterday and they are really very small,
what a lovely name truffles, have you been on Youtube just lately there is a little girt sing about her little piglet truffles it sound so sweet,
I picked a name for 1 of the boys, I have 1 with black ears just like his father bumble,
I am going to call the little one humbug, because he looks like the striped humbug sweets we had years ago, i cant think of what to call the other yet, but humbug might be a girl yet.
yours wendy517
I will upload some more photos of the piglets soon as they are over 3 days old now!

Humbug is an excellent name for a boar.

Yes, aren't they fantastic to hold at that age, so small you can fit two side-by-side in one hand and stroke them both at the same time. I used to love doing that.

Can't wait to see the new pics. Three days old already, wow, time sure flies when you've got fast growing baby piggies around.

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