Which cage shall I get for two guinea piggies?

[Alambil]

number 1

number 2

number 3 bigger size

The only thing I would say about the runs underneath is you will have to lug it round the garden as they will eat that much grass in a day.

We decided to go for a hutch with a separate run. That way you can get a much bigger run, and it's lighter to move around the garden. Those hutches do look very sturdy and well made though.

ah this is just for their house - will get an extra run for the grass because it's not ready yet.... they'll be on concrete for a while whilst I landscape the garden

We have got a home built cavy cage the same as this one - 28 inches by 56 - identical to the pic in top left corner

here

I gave up on hay and wood shavings after the first week - they now run about on fleece - changed twice a week and washed, much easier

I might put them in the garden in the spring

I have one like no.2. Good job I got that one as they now have to live apart - one ripped a 3cm gash in the other. In mine the ramp can be put up to make 2 apartments.

We have a separate run.

Schilke - do you have two males? And did they fight immediately, or after a while?
I'm asking because we're intending to keep two of our boar babies but also to try to introduce a third to his father, who is on his own atm. I'm very nervous about it. We have a double cage with a locking ramp as well - I'm hoping this will help if there's any fisticuffs! And a spare cage if any of them need to be sent into solitary...

Yes two males. They were from different breeders, but put together when they were young - about 3 months old. They were fine together for just over a year and then we noticed one of them had a few puncture wounds - vet couldn't work out what had made them ... it was awful, had to flush the wounds out myself for a week and on 2 lots of medication. Then about 6 weeks later found a huge gash on the neck of the same guinea and we realised it was the other one attacking him. He had to have an anaesthetic to have the wound stitched. Since then they have been apart.

One guinea pig site suggested this was their teenage years and that the aggressive one might settle down. I'm going to try a supervised reunion in the summer in the run!

Oh dear - that doesn't bode well for our introduction. Our adult male is so much bigger then his son, obviously - I'd feel as if I was putting him into the lion's den!
Hopefully the two brothers will be OK together though.

There seems to be differing opinions on this. A breeder told me that males are OK together if they haven't ever been bred - but presumably yours haven't?

Our local rehome centre regularly introduces male gp babies (around 6-8 weeks) to older single males. They reckon an older male won't feel the need to fight to dominate a titchy, humble new boy in they way it would with a similar-size one.

God, reading that back, it sounds like a gay dating service for guinea pigs, doesn't it?

and lol. That's very reassuring in fact. Here's hoping for some love between our two...