Sweet Potato
Adult Guinea Pig
Hugo and Rufus have settled in well and everything seems to be OK other than that they're just a bit small. I've had a lot going on with my family at the moment so I've maybe not been as on it as I would usually be with new piggies but I am a little concerned. I'm not sure I have the mental energy right now to be call the vet panic mode anxious but I'm not too happy. They're 9 months old so I thought they might still have some growing to do but they're not growing. Hugo has been slowly dropping from about 950g to just under 900g over the past 8 weeks. Rufus was only 880g to start with and is now 840g. They have constant access to hay, have veggies daily, 1tbs of pellets per pig per day. So my question is what am I doing wrong? I didn't weigh them for the first couple of weeks while they settled in so I'm not sure if they lost weight in those weeks. I've tried adding a handful of reddigrass to the hay tray each time I refill and scattering forrage a couple of times a week. They've not been handled much over the last few weeks. They're happy and popcorning as normal. They are brothers so I suppose there could be something genetic just making them small pigs but that wouldn't explain why weight has dropped.