Sexing 3 Unplanned Babies Help

[cavymercymain]

Hello all,

First of all, I am so thankful to have this forum. What a great wealth of info for other cavy lovers to learn from. Like many others, I had an unexpected litter last week. One of my what was told to me, male piggies, from the shelter gave birth to 3 little ones. I have separated the roomie into another similar cage that has a common wall. If you can help me sex the babies, that would be so helpful. Also, do you all recommend that I should take the whole piggy family in for a general health checkup at the vet's office? Babies are officially 1 week and 2 days old.

Piggy 1:




Piggy 2:



Piggy 3 (Hairless):

 

[Betsy]

I'm not an expert so I'll leave it for others to comment. A vet check is a good idea to make sure they are healthy. We have seen their privates so a pigture of their faces would be wonderful please. Baby piggies are so cute. All ears and feet.

 

[Viennese Furbabies]

It's really hard to tell the sex of a baby just by looking at a picture.
Here you find usefull information about sexing babies: Sexing Babies (with pictures)

I would guess that piggy 2 is a little boy.
The hairless one could be a girl.
The first pictures aren't clear enough that I want to try a guess.
But if you take your little family to the vet, you can get some hands on help in sexing.

 

[Freela]

It's hard to tell with pics of babies, but I would bet that piggie 2 is male and I suspect that piggie 3 is female... I'm unsure on piggie 1. And obviously us looking at pics isn't as good as a hands-on exam... a vet trip might be worth it just for that reason alone.

Out of the original pair you got, are they both female? Or is one the dad?

 

[cavymercymain]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for everyone's reply. I will be seeing the vet this coming week for sure then. From my eye, the companion does seem to have male genatalia. Will probably bring the companion along to the vets too just in case. I adopted them in week 1 of October. So at least with me, I don't think they had relations (pregnancies last ~10 weeks, right?). They (The two I originally adopted) were surrendered together with 2 other piggies noted to be females. Here are normal pix of each of the kiddo piggies

Piggy 1



Piggy 2



Piggy 3

 

[VickiA]

Sexing is a visual and tactile process. For each baby please press very gently above the knob to see if you can feel a penis ridge. Then very gently part the slit to see what is inside. Boars go straight up and down whereas sows have little fleshy seals
If you can get close ups of the slits very gently parted that would help.
My suspicion from the photos is 1 unclear , 2 looks like a boar with a round penis button and 3 looks like a sow with an angular knob and keyhole slit.
Any boar pups must be separated from mum and sister (s) by 21 days or 250g in weight, whichever comes soonest.

 

[Mrs Tiggy Winkle]

What a great wealth of info for other cavy lovers to learn from. Like many others, I had an unexpected litter last week. One of my what was told to me, male piggies, from the shelter gave birth to 3 little ones.

I'm pretty new on the forum too, and I agree there is a wealth of info! It's great that so many knowledgeable piggy people have taken the time to write it all down.

Sorry you got an unexpected litter, tho piggy babies are totally sweet. I thought shelters were capable of sexing piggies properly and that mis-sexing was the domain of bad breeders and pet shops. Apparently not. I can't help you with the sexing further than anybody else has done. I'd need to feel as well.

This is somewhat off-topic, but I never realised you could have a hairless guinea in a litter with two normal hairy guineas!? I thought skinny pigs were a breed of their own, sort-of-thing. I suppose the dad piggy was maybe hairless? Anyway, learn something new every day.