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Jbrophy1021

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Hi there I have 2 baby guinea pigs healthy in all ways but do some guinea pigs grow slower than others not sure how old my girls are just though I’d ask they are eating and drinking everything else fine thanks
 

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As with humans, piggies can vary in weight and size. There’s no ‘one size fits all’. As long as they’re putting on (or maintaining one adult) then they’re fine. How old are they and are you weighing them weekly?
 
Hi there I have 2 baby guinea pigs healthy in all ways but do some guinea pigs grow slower than others not sure how old my girls are just though I’d ask they are eating and drinking everything else fine thanks

Hi and welcome!

Please take the time to read our Weight and Diets guides. They should answer your questions in more detail than we can provide in a normal answer. Individual weights vary massively but you can learn in the weight guide how to check their BMI ('heft') to see whether they are a good weight for their size at any age of life. This gives you the baseline from which you work your weekly health monitoring and body checks. Weight is also not the same throughout life; again our weight guide will explain how it generally develops.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

I am also adding in our diet guide since a balanced hay/grass based diet can extend a healthy life span easily for another 1-2 years and is the best thing you can do for your piggies long term health and a longer life. The body quirks guide helps you to learn what is normal and what not.
Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets
Guinea pig body quirks - What is normal and what not?
Early Signs Of Illness

All these guides are part of our much more comprehensive New Owners guide collection, which is one of the best resources around at this time. Our guides contain all the practical and precise tips and they cover the areas we get the most questions and concerns about. you may want to bookmark the links, especially the collection, as you will pick up more when re-reading from a different level of experience.
You can access our full and even more extensive information resource via the guides shortcut on the top bar, where they are laid out in thematical order.
Getting Started - New Owners' Most Helpful Guides

Please take the time to read our information so you can learn to judge whether your piggies are or OK or not at all times. Your question is too vague and is not giving us the possibility to assess your piggies to see whether something is not right. We cannot replace a hands-on vet examination since your picture of two pretty guinea pigs that are not looking ill is not giving us the data and input we'd need for an answer. If in any doubt, please have them vet checked so you can start with peace of mind.
New guinea pigs: Sexing, vet checks&customer rights, URI, ringworm and parasites
 
As with humans, piggies can vary in weight and size. There’s no ‘one size fits all’. As long as they’re putting on (or maintaining one adult) then they’re fine. How old are they and are you weighing them weekly?
Just got scales today they both weigh in the 500 range
 
Hi I posted yesterday on my piggies growing I weighed them today and they are in the 500 range like I said not sure on age but is this ok think they are still young
 
Hi I posted yesterday on my piggies growing I weighed them today and they are in the 500 range like I said not sure on age but is this ok think they are still young

as long as they are gaining weight at each weekly weigh in, then it’s fine.
please do read all the guides which were linked in wiebke’s reply.
 
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