Adding A Second Cage With Females - Trouble?

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Hi guys,
I have two 3-month old, unneutered male guinea pigs who live together in a big cage. They get on well, although they are starting to squabble a bit now that they are starting to experience teenage hormonal surges. It's mostly just A LOT of rumblestrutting so I'm hoping it'll never turn violent.
Anyway, I recently discovered a small animal rescue near where I live and they are trying to rehome several pairs of gorgeous, older females. I would love to help out and initially thought I could just get a second cage and adopt some girls, but then I read about how the scent of females can drive males crazy and increase their aggression towards each other. :(
I'm sure some of you have both males and females, so how do you do it? Before I adopted these boys I only ever had females. I'm learning so much about boar behaviour and care now, and boy, they are so much more complicated than females! I miss the days where I could just put all my pigs in one large cage and adding new pigs was never an issue. ;)
 
Not a good idea if the males can smell the females. It will drive then mad and may start fights
 
Or you could neuter the boys and team each one up with is own harem.
 
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Thanks for the advice. I could probably put the females in a different room but I think it would be very difficult to keep their scent away from the boys!
@Squeakz , I love the harem idea :D but I am scared of getting the boys neutered - I would never forgive myself if something went wrong. I don't think my desire to get more guinea pigs is a good enough reason to make them undergo such a risky procedure...
I suppose the safest thing to do is to just stick with my two boars for now, and if they ever fall out, to go for the two separate harems. :)
 
I've got 3 sows and 6 boars, I could never put the sows near the (then) younger boars but they are totally fine above the older boys :) If they are in a different room you should be fine :) You could always get two more boars instead :P
 
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Kerrie74 said:
I've got 3 sows and 6 boars, I could never put the sows near the (then) younger boars but they are totally fine above the older boys :) If they are in a different room you should be fine :) You could always get two more boars instead :P
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Good to know that boars calm down when they get older! Mine are currently hormone-laden, incessantly rumbling, butt-dragging, humping fluffballs of trouble. XD
I don't think I could handle more of those but yeah, adopting some well-behaved senior boys might be a good idea! :)
 
hehe, my girls are just as bad if not worse when they are in season.. horrible to each other!
 
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