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Bros Piggy

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Bros Piggy
Is it possible that my young Guinea pig and my bros older one can get pregnant?

Ok, My bros piggy is older and girl...... My is young and boy, can Lucy( my bros piggy ) get pregant if Sweetie Pie ( my Piggy ) and Lucy share cage

There are risks to breeding a litter and those should be considered before getting the female pregnant. Most of these risks can be avoided by the female not being too old and being in good (but not over fat) condition.

Stress is a major cause of pregnancy problems (especially any stress that causes the female to stop eating late in pregnancy - barking dogs, handling too much, high temperatures, unnecessary car journeys etc). If you avoid these stresses and feed the sow correctly many problems can be avoided and the risks are NOT as high as some people choose to say that they are.

A guinea pig should have her first litter before the age of 12 months as the ligaments around the pelvic bone become less flexible with age, making delivery of the babies difficult. Also, an older female is less fertile and could have one or two very large babies (making birth difficult for a first time mother) rather than three or four smaller ones.

Please make sure that you are able to find homes for the babies or house them properly yourself. You will need a cage for Mum and female babies and a cage for Dad and male babies so that they do not keep on breeding more babies. Please do not listen to people who say ‘what would you do with eight babies.’ It is an incredibly rare occurrence for a sow to have eight babies; they normally have three or four.

*****How will it ever be possible to put an end to this complete and utter myth that “a guinea pigs pubic bones will be completely fused"*****