Introductions Introducing pups into the herd/ When to do it/ How to do it?

[PeachandDaisy]

If you've been following my posts you know my recently adopted piggie gave birth on September 25 to three little pups! Rosilina, Boo, and Patch. And up until then, my adopted guinea pigs (Peach and Daisy) Lived in a 1,728 sized cage.


The cage has always been nice and spacious for the two of em... But now theres 5! I've been sectioning off Peach to a smaller space in the cage alone were she can't physically bother Daisy and her pups, but I worry she's feeling lonely all by herself, and its a lot messier scattering her hay everywhere in her room because she can't walk to the hay room.

So basically I need them to coexist peacefully. I'd be a lot easier to work with, but can I even do that at the pups age (2 days) will Peach hurt or push them around?? (She is the dominant one)

So thats my update/ Can my nursing pig and her pups live peacefully with another cage mate..

Hopefully I was specific enough about my question.. If you need any other information to help me out with this problem let me know

(P.S I am keeping all of my female pups. We are not able to sex them yet so we don't know just how many we will keeping. But when they are a few weeks older I will buy an extension to there cage so the 5 of them won't be crowded.)

 

[bpatters]

Why are you separating her from the mom and pups? Guinea pig sows are usually very good with pups. And now that you've separated her, you'll have to do full introductions again, and it can be more difficult to introduce one pig into a group. If you'd left them together, they'd probably have been fine. Now, who knows? But the sooner you put them back together, the better chance they all have of getting along.

See http://guinea-pigs.livejournal.com/3002707.html.

 

[PeachandDaisy]

I had separated them just to give Daisy space alone with the pups..However they've only been barred from echother for about 2 days (and in those 2 days I still let them interact a few times every now and then) Anyways, I just took out the divider tonight and I'm watching them to make sure there all relaxed... I'll keep the divider out from now on as long as they don't fight. Thank you for your advice!