Hi Guinea pig experts!
We’ve had our 4 sows since Wednesday and I think they are doing pretty well considering everything is new for them. We left them alone for the first 2 days and then yesterday put them in their playpen for the first time for a few hours during the day and they were happy running around and exploring ( after hiding in the tunnels for 20 mins). Today they didn’t do much hiding and two of them were happy taking Curly kale from my daughters hand.
My question however is water - they have two bottles in their hutch ( one water and one with the pink tummy friendly stuff pets corner told us to buy), but neither bottle goes down that much during the day? The bottles definitely aren’t blocked and when in the playpen I think they take the water as we can hear it, but when they are in the cage it sounds like they are just gnawing on it. Do any of you know how much they are meant to take ( they get a bit of veg twice a day for the 4 of them, and a small amount of pellets in addition to endless amount of hay which they are destroying!).
Thank you!
We’ve had our 4 sows since Wednesday and I think they are doing pretty well considering everything is new for them. We left them alone for the first 2 days and then yesterday put them in their playpen for the first time for a few hours during the day and they were happy running around and exploring ( after hiding in the tunnels for 20 mins). Today they didn’t do much hiding and two of them were happy taking Curly kale from my daughters hand.
My question however is water - they have two bottles in their hutch ( one water and one with the pink tummy friendly stuff pets corner told us to buy), but neither bottle goes down that much during the day? The bottles definitely aren’t blocked and when in the playpen I think they take the water as we can hear it, but when they are in the cage it sounds like they are just gnawing on it. Do any of you know how much they are meant to take ( they get a bit of veg twice a day for the 4 of them, and a small amount of pellets in addition to endless amount of hay which they are destroying!).
Thank you!