What kind of weight is 'average' for a 6 month old GP?

Weighing Pigs

I am not sure if your guinea pigs are small, or that mine are just big. My guinea pigs range from 2-4 months old, I am guessing on the little one only being a few months old. My 4 month old girl weighs just over 3/4 of a pound. I would say my little one, BaaBaa, probably weighs just under a half a pound.

I have noticed that it almost seems overnight that one piggie will plump up in what seems like less than a day, and then a few weeks later my middle piggie did the same thing. It has been a little bit and my little one still has not hit that "freshman 15" phase as I am calling it.

As soon as my middle pig grew overnight I noticed she was challenging the oldest piggie for dominance. It appears that dominance shifts almost weekly. As they are in a stable enviornment with everything that they may ever possibly want, I guess I figured dominance would not be so wishy-washy, for a lack of a better term. The little one just sits back and watches.

Maybe it is just that different breeds of guinea pigs hit their growth spurts at different times.

Re: What kind of weight is 'average' for a 6 month old GP?

That seems extremely tiny. Are you sure of their ages? My girls at six months were 1.5 pounds- and they were considered to be "on the small side". Maybe there was something wrong with the scale? New-Borns weigh 3.7 ounces. Not six-month-olds.

~*Laura, Pumpkin, and Nikki*~

Re: What kind of weight is 'average' for a 6 month old GP?

I dunno. It's a postal scale so I assume it's pretty accurate. Although I did use the automated digital one rather than the old-fashioned slide scale. I know they can't be that many pounds, they're just not that large.

Well i think.....

Hi i read in guineapig books that GPigs should NOT weigh under 40 grams at 2-3 months, cos something is wrong e.g the piggie is not eating much.

So a piggie at 6 months should weigh 90-100 grams. A fully grown guineapig at 12 months could weigh up to 1000 grams.

I hope i have helped