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Hi steph, I am also from Australia.

Always good to see new owners from Australia joining the forums. An alpaca coat would be a longhair rex, so crinkled and wiry hair that grows very long. The two...

For me what I would do would greatly depend on the age and health of the remaining guinea pig when their current friends passes.

If they are 5/6/7 and in good health when their friend dies I...

The problem with Timothy hay here in Australia is that it doesn't grow well in our climate so all the timothy hay you will find has been imported from other countries. As such it is usually very poor...

The male guinea pig will need to be kept separate from females for three to four weeks post op to allow residual sperm to die off.

Guinea pigs pelvic bones don't fuse, the ligaments lose...

Yes I do. I have several aquariums, ranging in size from 4ft to 20 litres. I also have an aquaponics set up as a work in progress.

I have had many sows over the years, none were spayed, none developed ovarian cysts. On the other hand I have also had no stones in any of my guinea pigs.

I do think there is a large genetic...

The kind of discharge you are describing sounds normal to me.

Rather than being concerned about the amount of blood be concerned about how the mother is acting. If she is acting normal, is active...

It is boar glue, aka guinea pig ejaculate. He is almost certainly putting it there himself, it isn't anything alarming and he can clean it off on his own. It isn't healing because there is nothing to...

They both look like American guinea pigs, aka a standard short smooth coat.

For coat colours Coco looks like a tri-colour, a chocolate, white, and red? or gold? tri-colour. I'm not certain of the...

I often see people assuming the price of having a guinea pig neutered would be lower than it actually is. Often they base this off of the cost of having a dog or cat neutered, this is often wildly...

They are probably not a good cage for reptiles simply because it would be hard to keep the heat and humidity right.

Perhaps something like button quails/king quails (same bird, name differs...

How certain are you that she has been spayed? If I didn't know better I would say his current mounting spree might be spurred by her heat cycle but if she is spayed that should not be the case.

Other good leafy greens would be like butterhead lettuce, radicchio/chicory (they will even eat the bitter green "field radicchio" leaves which are what grow when you don't starve the plant of...

I've grown my guinea pigs many different varieties of capsicums/bell peppers before. The variety "sweet banana" was one similar to the one you are considering, they never turned their noses up at...

Just for clarification young guinea pigs need an additional source of calcium for their growing bones that older guinea pigs should not have. This extra calcium can come from either young guinea pig...

I agree your options as it stands depends on how attached you are to them. Female guinea pigs can get pregnant from 6 weeks of age, male guinea pigs are fertile from about 3.5-4 weeks old which is...

I have had a guinea pig with inoperable tumours that ended up taking her life. I wouldn't try to fatten him up and TheGuineaPiggGal, doing so is not for his benefit, the risks of bloat are too high...

There is no gradual introductions, it really should be a 1 day event. It is very stressful to put them together and take them apart again several times, which is usually the way people go about...

My personal preference in similar situations has been to get a pair of young sows to introduce to the older sow. I find the older sow takes well to much younger sows in most situations and having...

Hay is just dried grass. There is no nutrient that hay has that grass is missing.

However most people chose to feed hay and not grass for practicality reasons due to their own personal situation....

My thoughts, first is male, other two are female. If I am correct you will be able to feel the firm line just above the genitals, that is the bone bpatters described, on the first one but not the...

I have on occasion fed some raw pumpkin to my guinea pigs, a small piece no more than once a week.

Most seeds in bird seed are grass seeds. I have never intentionally planted bird seed to grow grasses, but having a bird aviary near a garden bed and occasionally adding some bird droppings with the...

Definitely move it to a different room to the guinea pigs. Ideally have a door shut between the altar and the guinea pigs, and plenty of ventilation like an open window if possible.

As it is ringworm, stop with the antibiotic cream on the skin.

What has the vet prescribed for the ringworm infection, is it an oral medication, a cream for the skin, or is it the anti fungal...