Not Sure If My Guineas Like Lap Time

[tallulahmay]

I have 4 , two girls who I have out together and my boys are separate at the moment , I get them out every evening , I noticed they look like they are eating on my lap ,I wondered if it is a mild chattering ,there is no noise .the boys do it mostly .
I am trying to work out if they are happy ,comfortable or not , betsie is quite confident when I walk in the room she doesn't hide , but I have to trick her in to a tube to pick her up , she has closed her eyes on my lap but bitten me twice , I worked out she does not like her belly stroked!
charcoal is very timid she when I stoke her she nudges me with her head I take that as leave me alone lol
Now both my boys do this thing where they look like they are eating but no noise , is this good or bad ?
Waffles has started doing it and looking at me lifting his head up , so I put him back in his bed , he hides a lot but doesn't seem to mind me picking him up , he crawls up to my neck though, I just don't want to stress them out too much.
When I stroke them on the back them make a low noise I can't tell if it's purring or rumbling , wish I new if they like it or not lol

 

[I <3 piggies]

Guinea pigs are semi ruminant, so while most of their food is digested like a human's, the more fibrous food gets chewed twice, so that's what's happening when they seem to chew on nothing haha. Also if your pig dives down between their back legs and resurfaces chewing on something, they are eating a special kind of poop, there are to kinds one is waste and one is plant matter that needs to go back through so that the pig can make good gut bacteria, absorb maximum nutrients and create their own source of vitamin B12 (: About not knowing if they like being petted, i think that they do as mine lick and nibble my hands during lap time. If you're not sure about their backs try just behind the ears and under the chin, mine love that <3