Hey Everyone,
So to my shock today, my long haired female guinea pig had an extreme hair cut this morning when I went to feed her. I had noticed her hair had become significantly shorter and I took her to the vet with her babies that needed to be sexed, he said it was quite normal for her hair to be thinner and fall out when she is lactating.
The cage is a reasonable sized C&C cage but with the babies getting bigger it was obvious that it was a little crowded, now that the babies are separated I noticed that her room mate Sophie has been eating her hair when I had them on the couch and I'm really worried.
Here are some other bits of information
- I clean their cage every 2 days inside and out but I had only cleaned it after 4-5 days because I was extremely sick with a viral flu so I'm not sure if this was a factor. (It's spotless now) Could this have anything to do with it?
- Sophie is 3 months old, the Mum is over a year old but she is has always been the boss, I have noticed that she has been less dominant lately.
- I have a combination of different hay baskets, litter boxes, toys, tubes, and houses that I switch around every time I clean the cage to keep things interesting, I also re arrange the cage each time.
I'm really worried, do I have to split them up? I have the female baby in the cage as well as I plan to keep her (the boys have moved outside). Sophie doesn't seem to eat the hair off any of my other Guinea pigs.
Please help![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)
So to my shock today, my long haired female guinea pig had an extreme hair cut this morning when I went to feed her. I had noticed her hair had become significantly shorter and I took her to the vet with her babies that needed to be sexed, he said it was quite normal for her hair to be thinner and fall out when she is lactating.
The cage is a reasonable sized C&C cage but with the babies getting bigger it was obvious that it was a little crowded, now that the babies are separated I noticed that her room mate Sophie has been eating her hair when I had them on the couch and I'm really worried.
Here are some other bits of information
- I clean their cage every 2 days inside and out but I had only cleaned it after 4-5 days because I was extremely sick with a viral flu so I'm not sure if this was a factor. (It's spotless now) Could this have anything to do with it?
- Sophie is 3 months old, the Mum is over a year old but she is has always been the boss, I have noticed that she has been less dominant lately.
- I have a combination of different hay baskets, litter boxes, toys, tubes, and houses that I switch around every time I clean the cage to keep things interesting, I also re arrange the cage each time.
I'm really worried, do I have to split them up? I have the female baby in the cage as well as I plan to keep her (the boys have moved outside). Sophie doesn't seem to eat the hair off any of my other Guinea pigs.
Please help
![sad :( :(](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png)