Fighting Female guinea pigs fighting?

[Ebony14]

My guinea pigs are running around their cafe chasing eachother then they stop and chew each others bums but the are popcorning whilst chewing and chasing eachother?
Should i seperate them for a few days(which i dont really want to do because when they are apart when im cleaning the cage they got nuts!)

 

[peachyteen]

Guinea.pigs don't need to be separated unless they draw blood.

 

[Ebony14]

Okay thank you

 

[Ebony14]

Is it possible on of them could be in heat?

 

[peachyteen]

Is it possible on of them could be in heat?

it could be, I don't know all that much about that kinda stuff

 

[bpatters]

No, don't separate them. One or the other is likely in heat. If it eases up in a day or so, that's probably the case, but you can expect to happen again on a (roughly) two week schedule.

 

[HollyLeaf]

My Charlotte is in heat right now, all she does is chase her sister and rumble at her all day. And shes so cranky when i hold her.

 

[SillyAna]

HI, I haven't been on this website for long but i Have gotten a lot of good advise from a bunch of you. I have a very big problem. I have a guinea pig that I have had for almost a year. It will be a year in June 15 of this year. Well the problem is that she is being very aggressive towards my younger guinea pig who isn't even a year old. I separated them a couple of days ago. The only time they are together is when they are in the piggy play pen. When she is in the piggy play pen she'll charge at the other guinea pig that is around her age. When I take my older guinea pig out the other one will charge at my younger guinea pig. If you have any ideas please share. I think that my older guinea pig might be in heat and the reason I think that is because she will go to the other older guinea pig and will get really close to her butt, and then buty bump her and then perr. and does other things like when she is right next to her her whole body will shake. when i take her out of the cage. the other one tries to charge the younger one I try to get her out she'll chatter her teeth at me. Then eventually I get her out and put her in her own cage and she then starts to wheeek.

 

[bpatters]

Don't separate the pigs. They're wired to have to establish dominance every time they meet another pig, so you're just getting in their way by separating them. And don't put them together, even for play time, and then separate them again. It does absolutely nothing except stress the pigs out.

Chasing another pig is totally normal. What she's doing is rumblestutting, and all pigs do that.

If your cage is large enough, just leave them alone and let them work it out unless they turn into rolling, biting balls of fur. If your cage isn't large enough for three pigs (I think you described three pigs in your post), then separate them, enlarge the cage, and put them back together.

How did you go about introducing them? And what size is your cage?

 

[SillyAna]

the two older guinea pigs have been together since me and my housemate got them. My younger one i introduced her slowly to the bigger guinea pigs because that was what I was told to do by some guinea pig people in groups that I am in on facebook. So they have only been together for three months as for the two older ones have been together for almost a year now.

 

[SillyAna]

i have a mid west cage that i have them sleep in together and the piggy play pin is about as big as a minnie pool and tall about to my hips and I'm 5'9.

 

[bpatters]

A midwest cage is barely large enough for one pig, and certainly not large enough for three.

If you ever have occasion to do guinea pig introductions again, slow is not the way to go. This is the bible on guinea pig introductions, as far as I'm concerned: http://guinea-pigs.livejournal.com/3002707.html.

 

[SillyAna]

no I only have my one in there and my other in a different cage. my roommate has a mid west for her own guinea pig. i only have two she has one

 

[bpatters]

So they're only doing this when you put them together? They don't live together?

 

[SillyMolly]

[MENTION=13820]bpatters[/MENTION] SillyAna is my house mate, the only time all three of them is together is when we put them in the Guinea Pig play pen. SillyAna has two cages, a midwest for her Guinea Pig Ana, and a separate one for her other Guinea Oreo. My Guinea Pig Molly has her own Midwest cage herself. We put them together to play and socialize.

 

[bpatters]

Guinea pigs don't need to play and socialize with other guinea pigs that they don't live with. They're not kittens and puppies, and it's not an enjoyable experience for them. It just stresses them out.