weight

I recently got two new guinea pigs, one has lost 115g in 3 weeks. When he came he weighed 965g and he now weighs 861g. I am feeding them a cup each of veggies a day (1 cup between them in the morning and one in the evening), a quarter of a cup of pellets and unlimited amount of hay. They are...

I'm not too worried about them as their 'heft' is fine and they're all eating, pooping and popping as normal, but they are all very little (I think) and was wondering if pups of sibling pregnancies or back2backs are smaller? My 3 girls are 'about' 8 months old and between 630 and 680 grams...

My two guinea girls are about 4 months old. They are both looking well and eating well, but one of them weighs 534g (about 18 oz) and the other weighs 310g (10 oz) They are sisters and supposed to be the same age; is such a big difference normal? Are they both within reasonable limits? I'm a...

for Chewie at least! She gained 40g this week and is now over 600g. Rey has remained on last weeks weight (she seems to gain every two weeks then have a rest!) and BB has gained about 20g this week and no one has injured them selves, bonus! Rey has been seen lying down in the open more and...

So from what I've previously read in guinea-pig care books, a medium-sized guinea-pig should weigh between 1 - 2 lbs. However, after weighing each of them my three boars each need to loose half a pound for them to be at a healthy weight. I will hold my hands up to the fact that I do overfeed my...

Is 920 grams a good weight for a sow around 5 years old?

Okay so when I first got my girls about a year ago I used to weigh them weekly, but after months of staying the same I stopped (I realise now I shouldn't have) Around October time Beans, who is roughly 2-3 years old ( not sure exactly as they're rescues) weighed 1160 grams. Toast, who is...

Some of you have been helping me with my thread last week about Ben's breathing here. Kind of keeping this as a sort of log for the past week... He's been having baytril, metacam, vit c supplements, probiotic and critical care recovery food. He was 1.2kg before and hit a low of 1.09 when the...

I told the girls that it was weigh-time and afterwards they'd get some veggies - they ran for cover. As soon as they realised the scale's batteries were flat, they came out wheaking for the promised veg! So no weights this week. Chewie is definitly growing (or just getting fatter?) - their...

It's been one week, and a day, since the three girls came home. We are renaming them but haven't got very far: Mango is now BB (BB-8 from StarWars) but we're awaiting inspiration for Chutney and Squirrel. BB and Squirrel are sisters and Chutney is a cousin (they think) They are settling in well...

Hello everyone, my name is Darby Santis and I have two boar guinea pigs and I just wanted to know how large guinea pig get. I heard the average weight is 1.2 lbs to 2.6 lbs about but I have to say both of my cavies weigh about 5 lbs each and are as healthy as an ox their fur is good and I keep...