Kellymarie
New Born Pup
Hi all,
I had guinea pigs from the age of 6 to 26, when pregnant with my little girl and my last pigs passed on, I didn't get anymore. Its been over 4 years now, and my little girl is obsessed with guinea pigs and seeing how sensible and helpful she was during the 2 weeks we had my sisters when she was on holiday, I think it's time for me to welcome some new piggies home.
I've been looking online over the past week or so and can't see any bonded pairs of sows or neutered boar/sow pairings near me. I'm quite rural, and surrounded by coast. I don't particularly want older guinea pigs over 1-2 years as while there is obviously no guarantee on them living longer, one would expect to have them around for somewhat longer if they got younger pigs.
I'm fairly knowledgeable having even had dental pigs previously, but wanted to see if I'm missing anything here, or if my knowledge could be updated.
We will be looking to rehome off of gumtree or some other market place site as these have younger pigs available, I would ideally like a male/female pair as this Is is what I have always had previously (except they were adopted as a castrated male and bonded sow). I was thinking to get 2 sows and then await a solo male (castrated) to introduce to the girls when they've settled in etc.
I'm looking at a c&c cage of 1.4m long, 70cm wide, (5x2) by the same on a second floor minus the ramp. Is this enough surface area for the 2 females? I can probably extend to 6 x2 when male arrives, but I would need to purchase some additional grids for this.
Planning on using my old fleece liners for bedding, with hay bags, water bottle and 2 food bowls, one for each end of the cage to spread out pellets/veg etc at feeding time.
Nuggets- burgess or science selective? Not sure what they are currently on now, but I remember how to introduce new food. The wierd mint and blackcurrant flavours are slightly putting me off the burgess
Do pigs under 6 months need a small amount of alfalfa hay mixed in with their Timothy hay, or is Timothy hay enough. Speaking of hay, how long will a 2.5kg box of Timothy hay from hay box last me
I think that's all, It's not so much questions as more needing some confirmation I'm going about this in the right way, as it's been 5 years or so, since my last guinea pigs and I almost feel like a rookie again.
Many thanks
I had guinea pigs from the age of 6 to 26, when pregnant with my little girl and my last pigs passed on, I didn't get anymore. Its been over 4 years now, and my little girl is obsessed with guinea pigs and seeing how sensible and helpful she was during the 2 weeks we had my sisters when she was on holiday, I think it's time for me to welcome some new piggies home.
I've been looking online over the past week or so and can't see any bonded pairs of sows or neutered boar/sow pairings near me. I'm quite rural, and surrounded by coast. I don't particularly want older guinea pigs over 1-2 years as while there is obviously no guarantee on them living longer, one would expect to have them around for somewhat longer if they got younger pigs.
I'm fairly knowledgeable having even had dental pigs previously, but wanted to see if I'm missing anything here, or if my knowledge could be updated.
We will be looking to rehome off of gumtree or some other market place site as these have younger pigs available, I would ideally like a male/female pair as this Is is what I have always had previously (except they were adopted as a castrated male and bonded sow). I was thinking to get 2 sows and then await a solo male (castrated) to introduce to the girls when they've settled in etc.
I'm looking at a c&c cage of 1.4m long, 70cm wide, (5x2) by the same on a second floor minus the ramp. Is this enough surface area for the 2 females? I can probably extend to 6 x2 when male arrives, but I would need to purchase some additional grids for this.
Planning on using my old fleece liners for bedding, with hay bags, water bottle and 2 food bowls, one for each end of the cage to spread out pellets/veg etc at feeding time.
Nuggets- burgess or science selective? Not sure what they are currently on now, but I remember how to introduce new food. The wierd mint and blackcurrant flavours are slightly putting me off the burgess
Do pigs under 6 months need a small amount of alfalfa hay mixed in with their Timothy hay, or is Timothy hay enough. Speaking of hay, how long will a 2.5kg box of Timothy hay from hay box last me
I think that's all, It's not so much questions as more needing some confirmation I'm going about this in the right way, as it's been 5 years or so, since my last guinea pigs and I almost feel like a rookie again.
Many thanks
