Wigwig
Adult Guinea Pig
What is the ideal weight for a male over 1 year?
I weighed archie (3 times with two different scales) the readings were abit changeable but he is somewhere in the region of 1kg - 1kg 200g.
Can their muscles and bones get a similar density effect like humans when you do lots of exercise? Because he loves running around lots and butting things around, and when I feel him, he feels very muscular and he is certainly as strong as my rabbit I had in the past.
Should I reduce his pellets? He gets a tablespoon amount every 6 hours or so (often he leaves some during the day as he has grass and a small stump of broccoli), he has plenty of hay which he gets through normally I think.
I weighed archie (3 times with two different scales) the readings were abit changeable but he is somewhere in the region of 1kg - 1kg 200g.
Can their muscles and bones get a similar density effect like humans when you do lots of exercise? Because he loves running around lots and butting things around, and when I feel him, he feels very muscular and he is certainly as strong as my rabbit I had in the past.
Should I reduce his pellets? He gets a tablespoon amount every 6 hours or so (often he leaves some during the day as he has grass and a small stump of broccoli), he has plenty of hay which he gets through normally I think.
* between 900gs-1200gs so I would say as long as archie is happy and not rapidly losing weight he is perfectly healthy. There is a correct diet tag on this website but as long as he has unlimited hay and about no more than 2 tablespoons in 24hrs (according to guinealynx) 40gs on this website.. which I am guessing you already do unless you do night feeds. He should also have about 50g of guinea pig friendly fruit and veg a day (I would look into the amount of broccoli he eats if thats the only veg he has due to its high calcuim content and I do not think it has very much vitamin c - but yeah research that 
)I hope this helps but please bare in mind I am new to this to!