StarknNemesis
Well-known Member
Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2013
- Posts
- 50
- Joined
- Oct 24, 2013
- Messages
- 50
Hello all,
my name is Liv. As the title says, I'm a brand New Guinea pig owner! Ive had rats all my life and was able to train the females to give kisses, come when called and use a litter box! I worked at a pet store for 7 years but the knowledge i got from reading the forums here and this site in General is more than i could have ever learned about guineas there.
I may be a new owner but is it just me or are the females more nervous than the males as babies? Every female piglet ive ever held has been very squirmy and insecure as opposed to the males which most of them were relatively calm.
This is being said, i bought a male piglet with crazy hair (is there an actual classification for this other than long haired?) and was wondering if theres anything of dire concern to know about the long hairs health care wise. I will also be adopting a male skinny this weekend and both boys are 8-10 weeks old.
Nemesis, the long hair, is already coming around. I've built them a very large c&c cage (brilliant idea btw!) and hes loving it! He's exploring every tunnel and bed and house ive put in. When i hold him (ive only had him 3 days now) he makes little squeaky noises. Are these happy noises? Or noises to be concerned about (as my last rat made these noises and became very ill and yes i know theyre different species but i like to air on the side of caution).
i currently feed him oxbow young guinea food until they are 6 months of age. Then will switch to adult oxbow. During the day, i cut up a little romaine lettuce, Bok Choy, green pepper, a very small wedge of a tomato every other day, a few small pieces of carrot every other day and gave him 4 small bite size pieces of Apple today as a training treat. What else can i feed them and in what quantities?
Does anyone know the difference between feeding oxbow grass hay vs oxbow Timothy hay vs Timothy hay bought from a horse farm as i have a horse?
my room also stays on the cooler side so ive offered a lot of fleece as bedding and blanked in their houses and i put a heat pad down (12" L x 6" W) under one of the beds that i periodically turn off. Even without the heat pad Nemesis stays relatively warm in his houses. Is this a good idea for the skinny?
sorry about the thousand and one questions but id rather be safe than sorry!!!
my name is Liv. As the title says, I'm a brand New Guinea pig owner! Ive had rats all my life and was able to train the females to give kisses, come when called and use a litter box! I worked at a pet store for 7 years but the knowledge i got from reading the forums here and this site in General is more than i could have ever learned about guineas there.
I may be a new owner but is it just me or are the females more nervous than the males as babies? Every female piglet ive ever held has been very squirmy and insecure as opposed to the males which most of them were relatively calm.
This is being said, i bought a male piglet with crazy hair (is there an actual classification for this other than long haired?) and was wondering if theres anything of dire concern to know about the long hairs health care wise. I will also be adopting a male skinny this weekend and both boys are 8-10 weeks old.
Nemesis, the long hair, is already coming around. I've built them a very large c&c cage (brilliant idea btw!) and hes loving it! He's exploring every tunnel and bed and house ive put in. When i hold him (ive only had him 3 days now) he makes little squeaky noises. Are these happy noises? Or noises to be concerned about (as my last rat made these noises and became very ill and yes i know theyre different species but i like to air on the side of caution).
i currently feed him oxbow young guinea food until they are 6 months of age. Then will switch to adult oxbow. During the day, i cut up a little romaine lettuce, Bok Choy, green pepper, a very small wedge of a tomato every other day, a few small pieces of carrot every other day and gave him 4 small bite size pieces of Apple today as a training treat. What else can i feed them and in what quantities?
Does anyone know the difference between feeding oxbow grass hay vs oxbow Timothy hay vs Timothy hay bought from a horse farm as i have a horse?
my room also stays on the cooler side so ive offered a lot of fleece as bedding and blanked in their houses and i put a heat pad down (12" L x 6" W) under one of the beds that i periodically turn off. Even without the heat pad Nemesis stays relatively warm in his houses. Is this a good idea for the skinny?
sorry about the thousand and one questions but id rather be safe than sorry!!!