Hello

[AussiePigs]

Hi there, I live in Melbourne, Australia and I have seven piggys...at last head count.

Originally we thought we got 3 girls, they turned out to be 1 girl (Darcy) and two boys (Patch and Tigger). They all seemed to get along ok for a while but as the boys got older they started getting a bit cranky with each other. We decided to get the boys both desexed and see if they might calm down a bit but even after the op they were still a bit too aggressive to be housed together unsupervised.

At this stage we decided that as the boys had both been neutered we would get another girl and have two separate cages but when we went to get another one we couldn't resist and ended up with another 2 girls (Keira and Gertie).

This was all fine, Tigger, Kiera and Gertie lived together and Patch and Darcy lived together and at free time all of them played together quite happily....then I found all 3 girls getting very chunky around the belly.

It would seem that even though they were separated until almost a month after desexing, Patch managed to get Darcy pregnant, she's since had one baby (not yet sexed). The two new girls also came as 2 for 1 deals from the breeder, they were both pregnant! Kiera has had a gorgeous little boy and Gertie is just about to pop.

I'm now in the process of working out what to do when I have 8+ guinea pigs and how to house them all without more pregnancy's or male fighting issues. I don't want to get rid of any as I love them all and couldn't bear them going to a bad home.