Shit... 99% sure Guinea Pig is pregnant

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Bit of a disaster... I lost one of my two lovely girls at the start of December. We were devastated, they were like two peas in a pod. I had a post on here at the time.

After just over a week I figured I needed to get another Guinea pig to keep my remaining one happy. Bought from a pet store as we don't have any rescues.... and I'm 99% sure the baby is pregnant 😡

Can't get her in to see the Vet until Tuesday morning.

She's had no vet care during pregnancy, haven't been feeding her any supplements. She was 8 weeks when she came to us, so young to be having babies. We've had her 55 days.

What the hell do I do now?

They are gorgeous. We had Guinea pigs as a child and without knowing mum gave birth and just left the pups outside in the cold and we had to hand rear them. They were so cute and became so tame

You’re quite right 😄

I am just curious to see what’s left of Mummy Pig after 3 enormous babies!

Congratulations, really made me smile 😊

Mum Piggy is on "Trending"

And how decent of her to have the pigletties on a Sunday so you can enjoy them (and spoil her rotten !)

Oh, so exciting and marvellous! How cute are they?! Well done Mummy Pig💖

Until your thread I had not considered myself much of a guinea pig disciple. I am well and truly converted.

Congratulation mummy pig. What beautiful babies. Toffee, fudge and biscuit?

Are you absolutely sure that aunty pig couldn't be daddy pig?

The one with the white splodge on top should be Cupcake.

😳

If she's actually a daddy pig it will be very obvious😄 guinea pigs have rather large testicles when fully grown!

Oh my word, they are so cute 😍

Hope mummy pig isn't too shocked given her young age.

Yay for the herd!

Congratulations to all, Mum, Auntie and to you OP. What a wonderful start and welcome to the world you have given them.

I had to go have a little nap... you'd swear I was the one who'd had the babies 🤣 Just back from the shop and picked up some strawberries for Momma and Aunty and some Cava for me 🍓🥂🤣

Definitely sure that my older girl is not actually a boy @Wallywobbles! Have had my other girl nearly 5 years now and she's been closely monitored by a specialist vet all that time... and as @JDJT pointed out, their boy bits are hard to miss 😅

Going to try and get some snaps of the pups' nethers now while the girls are chomping on strawberries @JDJT, let's see if we can figure out what we've got!

oh my god. they are beautiful. Be warned, this is how it all started with my friend, who then decided she wanted to breed a certain colouring, and at one point ended up with 49 of them

Ah well done OP and mummy pig. We had lots of guinea pigs when I was a child, before people were really aware of any potential issues with letting them breed. Basically the initial pair were called Lady and Flossie, but it turned out Lady was in fact a "Laddy". Laddy grew enormous and was sleek all over with a single crown on his head. He was perfectly tame, very intelligent, lived for 10 years with and fathered a small nation. Half the guinea pigs in my home city are probably descended from him. Obviously I wouldn't condone this sort of reckless guinea pig reproduction nowadays but as I recall they mostly got on with minimal problems. Amazing how developed the babies are isn't it? I know human babies come out pretty undeveloped, but even compared to other mammals. Just like little adults.

how lovely

Oh, they're gorgeous! I never knew before this thread that they come out fully finished like calves and foals, and not looking as if they need another month in the womb like puppies and kittens.

Ooh before the pics are up I'm gonna guess you've got 2 boys and a girl! White crest, the lightest, being the girl.

I was gonna guess the same!

Hopefully it’s like that because then the daughter can stay with mum and the brothers can live together

OP they are so gorgeous. It's just amazing how they are born ready to go!

I didn't know they were called pups. I also have to ask why they are not guinea piglets (or cavettes as their real name is cavies).

Aw congratulations! Beautiful piggies. 😍

Blondie

Toupee!

Not Toupee (and definitely the most wriggly!)

Awwww! Hello babies! I have been having the most miserable stressful day, but I've just found this thread and it has cheered me right up!