Hey guys, My girlfriend and I got a guinea pig about a month and a half ago (Cupcake, all black american) and we fell in love. We built a C&C cage (2x6)
and she had been living there happily ever since. About a half a month after getting cupcake we adopted another guinea pig(Twinkie) and then another half and
month after that we adopted our last guinea pig (Oatmeal). Unfortunately, I found this resource after our adoptions. We give them an unlimited amount of
hay(Oxbow timothy) and pellets(Oxbow as well). We feed them veggies in the AM and PM every day as well. Anyway, when we introduced oatmeal to twinky and
cupcake we noticed that she was in heat....(rumble strutting...mounting)
Long story short, they have been together in the C&C cage for about 15 days, and while I had double checked the sex for cupcake and twinky, I had not double checked the sex for oatmeal. Yesterday, I flipped oatmeal over and noticed a protrusion, which looked like a penis. I'm sure now that oatmeal is actually a male. I just recently read that you guys discourage from purchasing from pet stores, and I purchased all of my pigs from pet stores. You are completely correct in that aspect. I'm not sure what to do now. I'm afraid that twinky and cupcake might be pregnant, and for the record oatmeal pays a lot of attention to twinky and completely ignores cupcake.
I put oatmeal into a separate cage, and currently cupcake and twinky are together in the 2x6. I don't know what to do, I don't think we can handle 2 pregnant sows, and obviously we are not the most experienced people when it comes to guinea pig care. I wish I would have adopted at a rescue...any advice would be appreciated.
Long story short, they have been together in the C&C cage for about 15 days, and while I had double checked the sex for cupcake and twinky, I had not double checked the sex for oatmeal. Yesterday, I flipped oatmeal over and noticed a protrusion, which looked like a penis. I'm sure now that oatmeal is actually a male. I just recently read that you guys discourage from purchasing from pet stores, and I purchased all of my pigs from pet stores. You are completely correct in that aspect. I'm not sure what to do now. I'm afraid that twinky and cupcake might be pregnant, and for the record oatmeal pays a lot of attention to twinky and completely ignores cupcake.
I put oatmeal into a separate cage, and currently cupcake and twinky are together in the 2x6. I don't know what to do, I don't think we can handle 2 pregnant sows, and obviously we are not the most experienced people when it comes to guinea pig care. I wish I would have adopted at a rescue...any advice would be appreciated.
