Just Delivered: 5 pups!

[PiggyGal]

Okay, I just got home from working VBS, and went to go check on Alice (my possibly pregnant pig) and I looked in her Hidey and saw her nursing!!! She left to get some hay and I saw five little heads poke up! I've seen them all move, and they look okay, but any information would be appriciated! AND I didn't purposly breed them. My pet sitter (who is now FIRED) informend me earlier today that she 'wanted them to play together' and put my male (who is in another room) with her last time I went on vacation! Any way I didn't want any confusion!

[Paula]

Is this the same pig you talk about in this post when you say:

Originally Posted by PiggyGal

I have a female guinea pig, and what i thought was a female guinea pig. We adopted them and the rescue said they were both females. I had them together in a really big cage for about 2-3 months now. But now one (alice) looks like she has a bulge on both sides of her hips. She feels hevier but wont let me touch her at all and thats not normal for her. she is about 6 1/2 months old. I have seperated her from the other piggie for now but what else should i do?

Or is this a different pig? If it's a different pig, how many pregnant pigs do you have? If it's the same pig, why has the story of how she ended up pregnant changed?

[PiggyGal]

Sorry... It's just one pig, I must not have explained it well. I didn't have the pet sitter tell me she let them play together until this morning. I have male pigs in my sisters room, and my two females in my room. I didn't say I had two males in my sisters roomin my other post because we NEVER put them out together and I assumed (silly me) my pet sitter would listen to my directions. In my post I said something like, i rescued a female pig and what i thought to be a female pig. If that's whats confusing i said 'and what I thought to be a female' because if Alice was pregnant the other pig had to be a male. It turned out they both are female, and my sitter screwed up.

[Paula]

That doesn't explain why you said in your first post that the two pigs had been together for 2-3 months and now you are saying that "just this morning" you learned your petsitter had put them together for the briefest of moments and you had no idea until today when you came home and found 5 babies.

If you didn't mean to get her pregnant why are you telling different versions of this story?

[PiggyGal]

Originally Posted by paula.m.moore

That doesn't explain why you said in your first post that the two pigs had been together for 2-3 months and now you are saying that "just this morning" you learned your petsitter had put them together for the briefest of moments and you had no idea until today when you came home and found 5 babies.

If you didn't mean to get her pregnant why are you telling different versions of this story?

The other pig with Alice HAS been with her for 2-3 months, she took out alice and put her with Resees, my sisters male pig, who is in a differant room, for them to play, and now she tells me because I was talking to her about my up-coming vacation, she didn't think it was bad even though i told her specifically not to put hem together. ANYWAY do you have any suggestions on how to help the babies?

[Paula]

Veggies high in calcium and protein for the babies.

I still don't understand why you said this:

I have a female guinea pig, and what i thought was a female guinea pig. We adopted them and the rescue said they were both females. I had them together in a really big cage for about 2-3 months now. But now one (alice) looks like she has a bulge on both sides of her hips.

But now you are saying this:

My pet sitter (who is now FIRED) informend me earlier today that she 'wanted them to play together' and put my male (who is in another room) with her last time I went on vacation!

Are you saying you were on vacation for 2-3 months and during that time the pigs you adopted at the rescue (who were a male and female, not two females) were put together by the pet sitter and you only just found out today that the pet sitter had them together while you were talking to the pet sitter about another vacation you are about to go on? I'm sorry, I just can't follow this story.

[PiggyGal]

Originally Posted by paula.m.moore

Veggies high in calcium and protein for the babies.

I still don't understand why you said this:



But now you are saying this:



Are you saying you were on vacation for 2-3 months and during that time the pigs you adopted at the rescue (who were a male and female, not two females) were put together by the pet sitter and you only just found out today that the pet sitter had them together while you were talking to the pet sitter about another vacation you are about to go on? I'm sorry, I just can't follow this story.

Okay first Thanks!
Now i'm not sure if you get this, there are 4 adult guinea's being cared for in my house. 2 males in my sisters room, 2 females in my room. One of my females just gave birth to 5 pigs. Maybe this will help?

[Skeetersmom]

I understand it.... She got 2 females from a rescue, her sister has 2 males. One of her females started looking pregnant and she couldn't figure out why so she separated them thinking the rescue mis sexed them. Now that the babies are born, she was told by the petsitter that she had let the guinea pigs play together. Sound right?

[Paula]

Yes, I understand that.

What I don't understand is why you first say Alice got pregnant because you adopted two pigs from a rescue thinking they were both females (when they weren't?) and had them together for 2-3 months but now you are saying Alice got pregnant because your petsitter (now fired) put the pigs together to play thinking it would be okay, knowing full well they were male and female.

[MOMof3Kidz]

Ok the piggie got preggo! How it happened is not even an issue anymore the damage is done!

By the way CONGRATS on them all being healthy and alive so far!

So instead of the third degree can someone who knows about newborn piggies help her out and give her some tips?

[Peggysu]

Originally Posted by MOMof3Kidz

So instead of the third degree can someone who knows about newborn piggies help her out and give her some tips?

No one has given her the third degree. The story is just a little goofy and they are just trying to clarify. Now if you didn't notice paula already gave her some information on care for the babies.

[Skeetersmom]

I would just read the pregnancy and babies threads. Not much to do different. Feed the Cavy Performance for pellets for mom and babies. They are pretty much like little adults. Make sure your cage is baby proofed good. I had one escape over the weekend and I thought my cage was safe. My babies are just over 1 week old now and are eating pellets, hay and veggies along with mom and auntie. They are very sweet. Enjoy!

[PiggyGal]

Originally Posted by paula.m.moore

Yes, I understand that.

What I don't understand is why you first say Alice got pregnant because you adopted two pigs from a rescue thinking they were both females (when they weren't?) and had them together for 2-3 months but now you are saying Alice got pregnant because your petsitter (now fired) put the pigs together to play thinking it would be okay, knowing full well they were male and female.

I said that first because Before this morning I did think that, the sitter info, came to me this morning, I said she got pregnant from the other pig i adopted because that was the only explanation at the time. I've tried to explain this MANY times now. Iv'e done the best i can, other people understand. This was not intentional and i want the best for all my pigs. Please stop giving me the third degree. I just wanted to find out more info on newborns.

[MOMof3Kidz]

Yes I saw Paula post it showed up to me the same time I posted mine it wasn't there when I first read the thread.

[Rnd210]

If I am getting this right, she got the 2 females from a rescue center and they have been together for 2-3 months, and one looking pregnant while the other one did not made her thing the the other females must have been a male since she was unaware of Alice being with any males.
And now that the pups are here she has now been informed that the babysitter (who is now fired) put Alice with one of her Sisters male guinea pig to play while she was on vacation ( which she didn't say how long her vacation was) which has now why her Alice has 5 pups.

[PiggyGal]

Originally Posted by Skeetersmom

My babies are just over 1 week old now and are eating pellets, hay and veggies along with mom and auntie.

With auntie? I didn't know the other female could stay with her. I can put her back in the cage then right? I didn't know if she would be aggresive.

[Paula]

Originally Posted by PiggyGal

Please stop giving me the third degree. I just wanted to find out more info on newborns.

My intention is not to give you the "third degree," but rather to understand why it seems you've given differing versions of the story on how the pig ended up pregnant.

Ultimately it doesn't matter 'how' the pig got pregnant, but it does matter when it seems a person is defensive and giving different reasons for the pregnancy.

Perhaps it's a simple matter of not explaining the situation well.

In any event, what you're asking for is advice on how to care for the babies, which has been given. All I'm asking for is clarification on how the pig ended up pregnant in the first place, because it's suspect when a person offers two entirely different versions of a story like this. And yes, I do have a right to question it.

[Sponge]

Congratulations on five healthy pups. Extra calcium for Mother Guinea will help too.

Don't forget to seperate the males from mother, autie and sisters at 21 days, if you are keeping them they can live with Dad, just keep an eye on them and try to keep them in sight of their mother because sometimes they can get a bit worried if they can't see her.

Other than that Mother pig should be able to sort it all out herself (Keep some critical care nearby just in case (and check to see if it can be used on babies because I'm not sure). Oh, and if you pet them and handle them now for short periods of time they will be more responsive to being handled by any new owners etc making transitions a bit more comfortable for them.

Paula, I think I know what OP is trying to say:

She adopted two FEMALE piggies from a rescue, but when she noticed one of them was getting large (not realising they had been with the males) she assumed that the other must be a male, even though she sexed them often just to make sure they were females. They are infact both females, like the rescue said.

OP had no reason to believe the female pigs came into contact with the males (which live in a different room in the same house) until the sitter owned up to letting them play together while OP was away, and lets face it, it doesn't take long to breed whatever the animal may be .

So, OP has 2 males and 2 rescued females in the house which had probably never met before the sitter intervened and now one of the rescued females has had 5 pups.

I'm glad you fired the sitter because if Alice had been older than a year she could have died, not to mention how dangerous it is for these little piggies to be pregnant and the problems with overpopulation etc.

It surprises me just how common it is for some people to just not think that a male and female will mate. The woman at a pet shop I checked out the other week was completely oblivious to the fact that animals mate.

Sorry this post ended up so long. Good luck with the babies!

[MOMof3Kidz]

Originally Posted by Sponge

if Alice had been older than a year she could have died

I didn't know piggies shouldn't get preggo after a year old?

[Paula]

Originally Posted by MOMof3Kidz

I didn't know piggies shouldn't get preggo after a year old?

Ideally, they really shouldn't get pregnant at all. If a female hasn't given birth at around a year, delivery is a lot more difficult. Delivery puts her life at an even greater risk if she hasn't had a litter previously.