A bit confused

[Furry_Friend]

Hi, I have only been a Guinea owner for a month now and I still have a few questions!

I have 3 sows who are 6 months old. They sometimes do the vibrating noise and the bum wiggle thing around each other...is this normal? My neutered boar does it when he can hear, see or smell them but I expected that! He has another 4 weeks until he can be introduced to the girls.

Sorry to sound dense, but what is popcorning?

It's quite difficult to know which are happy sounds and which are distressed ones. When I cuddle my boar he makes very low soft trumpetting sound (god it's hard to explain their noises!) Is this is happy noise?

My long haired sow squals loudly when I comb her near her bum...it sounds like the squaaling they do when I feed them but she seems to hate the combing.

Sorry for all the questions, I just want to make sure they are ok!

 

[charlie23]

Most piggies dont like ther bottoms be stroked! Are you sure there shows as what you discribe above is a rumble strutting i believe which the males do to impress the females. Popcorning is when they kind of run and jump excitidley hope this helps it is very hard to dicribe what they do.

 

[Poison]

The rumble-strutting and vibrating form your sows sounds normal, they may be in heat, from what I've heard sows usually get a bit rowdy at that time lol

Pop-corning usually occur in younger pigs, the older ones seem to sorta grow out of it. But is basically like a little leap into the air and squeaks, Chewie does this at dinner time, he'll run up and down the cage popcorning. Its like they have a sudden burst of energy and just jump, its sooo cute, it means they're happy and excited.

I think your boars noise is a happy noise, I;m sure he'd tell you if he was upset, the low happy noise and the low upset/angry noise are quite similar.

Most guinea pigs dislike being touched around their rear, I guess its just incomfortable for them, Chewie, my peruvian, will squeal, jump and kick me and then try to run away or eat the comb, when I groom his rear. But if she's long haired it has to be done, and so I would suggest that you just ignore her, make sure your not pulling her fur or anything, but just continue grooming and hopefully she will get used to it and learn that she has to be groomed.