adopting family guineas.

[vanillaandmessi]

Hi, new here but need advise from people with more experience
I have two girl guineas(sows? always get confused) Vanilla and Messi(Messi identifies as a boy for my sons sake ), i have family members that have two boy guineas but their dad has got fed up of looking after them. shameful to admit my cousin had no clue how much work goes into guineas when she had them! i would love to give them a wonderful home with my girl guineas. I don’t believe the two boys have been neutered, so i don’t believe they could live together? but honestly, my girls are older and much bigger, and with the boys joining their cage, would it still be a dominance problem? Could they ever live together if one pair got neutered? i don’t really want to put them through that if it still wouldn’t work.
any advise would be lovely, i can’t bare the thought of him just setting them loose, it angers me .

 

[Piggies&buns]

If you were to take them on, then they would need to live totally separately from your females and remain apart from them at all times and preferably in different rooms.
If the two boys live together now, then just being in the same room and smelling your sows could cause the boys to fight and fall out. Being neutered will not make any difference to anything - it won’t make them be able to live together with the sows.
You cannot put the boys in the same cage with your girls, whether the boys are neutered or not. You can’t keep two males with any number of females, as the boys will fight.

Adding More Guinea Pigs Or Merging Pairs – What Works And What Not?
A Comprehensive Guide to Guinea Pig Boars

 

[vanillaandmessi]

If you were to take them on, then they would need to live totally separately from your females and remain apart from them at all times and preferably in different rooms.
If the two boys live together now, then just being in the same room and smelling your sows could cause the boys to fight and fall out. Being neutered will not make any difference to anything - it won’t make them be able to live together with the sows.
You cannot put the boys in the same cage with your girls, whether the boys are neutered or not. You can’t keep two males with any number of females, as the boys will fight.

Adding More Guinea Pigs Or Merging Pairs – What Works And What Not?
A Comprehensive Guide to Guinea Pig Boars

love that the two boys and two girls in that link is a BIG NO . i understand though, i don’t want to cause harm or distress to any of the guineas. i’m surprised they couldn’t even share the same room! that’s shocked me . good to know though, i had a feeling there was no way around it. i will definitely look at other solutions with this added knowledge, so thank you! .