Good evening fellow pig people!
im new to the forum but found you through googling for information and what an awesome community of friendly helpful people you all are
a little back story-
I took in a single female guinea pig as her mate had sadly passed away. Her name is Latte and she is approximately 6 months old (has had two previous litters prior to coming into my care- 2 pups in each litter).
That same day I saw an ad online in my town of another female Guinea pig for sale as the family was leaving town and couldn’t keep her anymore. I jumped at the opportunity to take her in (Jan is her name) and for Latte to have a cage mate.
everything went wonderfully, the two pigs both on March 20th 2021 came to my house to live happily ever after together....
After about a month of living together out in their big enclosure and having settled in, I caught them both to trim their nails and low and behold the second guinea pig is of course NOT a female
so fast forward and Jan has been renamed to Mr BoJANgles and the two were immediately seperated.
Latte now lives in a cage with a 6 week old ACTUAL female and is now quite large. We can feel babies moving inside and see them kicking from the outside.
my question is, would I assume she got pregnant on the day they met March 20th? If so then she would be 60 days pregnant today. How will I know when she is close to having the babies? She has quite long hair so it’s hard to tell by looking at her. Most things I’ve read says between 60-70 days the pregnancy will last but I never actually saw them mating so I’m just guessing from the day they were put in together She has stopped wanting to be picked up which is about the only characteristic change to note. Also if her previous two litters were two pups is it likely she will only have two pups again this time? Sorry for so many questions, I have not ever had a pregnant pig before and the research I’m doing online is giving me a lot of mixed answers.
many thanks for reading my long post
im new to the forum but found you through googling for information and what an awesome community of friendly helpful people you all are
a little back story-
I took in a single female guinea pig as her mate had sadly passed away. Her name is Latte and she is approximately 6 months old (has had two previous litters prior to coming into my care- 2 pups in each litter).
That same day I saw an ad online in my town of another female Guinea pig for sale as the family was leaving town and couldn’t keep her anymore. I jumped at the opportunity to take her in (Jan is her name) and for Latte to have a cage mate.
everything went wonderfully, the two pigs both on March 20th 2021 came to my house to live happily ever after together....
After about a month of living together out in their big enclosure and having settled in, I caught them both to trim their nails and low and behold the second guinea pig is of course NOT a female
so fast forward and Jan has been renamed to Mr BoJANgles and the two were immediately seperated.
Latte now lives in a cage with a 6 week old ACTUAL female and is now quite large. We can feel babies moving inside and see them kicking from the outside.
my question is, would I assume she got pregnant on the day they met March 20th? If so then she would be 60 days pregnant today. How will I know when she is close to having the babies? She has quite long hair so it’s hard to tell by looking at her. Most things I’ve read says between 60-70 days the pregnancy will last but I never actually saw them mating so I’m just guessing from the day they were put in together She has stopped wanting to be picked up which is about the only characteristic change to note. Also if her previous two litters were two pups is it likely she will only have two pups again this time? Sorry for so many questions, I have not ever had a pregnant pig before and the research I’m doing online is giving me a lot of mixed answers.
many thanks for reading my long post