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Baby Guinea Pigs

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Raspberry123 · 14/11/2019 23:38

We have 2 boars and 2 sows. We mated one of the boars with the 2 sows and they have just (yesterday and today!) had 6 babies between them. Sow#1 had a single baby and Sow#2 had 5 babies. They are all gorgeous. The smallest baby is 66g. Should I worry about him/her? He looks tiny compared to the singleton (117g) but from googling it seems that for one of 5 he is actually about average.
Should I give him some time alone with Mum? To see if that can boost him? Or am I worrying prematurely.
Will the other Mum with the singleton also feed the 5 babies of her friend?

Many thanks for your help

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 15/11/2019 11:02

Leave them with the Mum, she will organise the feeding . They can only feed two at a time , they are pretty good at ruling their piglets .
5 is a huge litter !
Make sure she has plenty of food , hay and water she will eat for Britain.
Alfalfa hay is recommended for pg/nursing sows and piglets (but not other pigs , too high in protein)

Guinea-pigs can nibble at solid food from 2 days so the other ones might go wandering about and pick.

Raspberry123 · 15/11/2019 11:30

Many thanks for replying. They are both wanting to eat non stop so I have been feeding them regularly. (I was the same when breast feeding!!). She has as much hay as she can eat and veg and nuggets a couple of times a day. I will order some Alfalfa hay.
The little chap is still there :-) and last night I saw one of the others nibbling hay!!! :-)

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Bluewavescrashing · 15/11/2019 11:31

Pics please!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 15/11/2019 17:45

Tsk, it;s calcium that Alfala is high in Blush

We bought some when we had piglet GP3 ( he came from a Rescue who picked a load of pigs up from a breeder who "didn't like guinea-pigs" Sad so we didn't know if he had been fed adequately)

We had to make sure our adult boar didn't quaff it though .

MrPickles73 · 15/11/2019 19:54

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