Please say my guinea pigs aren't mating

[TDGuinea]

Hi,

I noticed yesterday that my guinea pig that I adopted about a week ago was walking really slowly making this purring noise, and slowly shaking her rear.
My other pig Peanut was running really fast when I came into the room and seemed really hyper.

The lady I adopted from knows a lot about guinea pigs and checked to see if my pig was a girl and she said yes and then she said my new one was a girl too.

Is this normal behavior? I really will not be able to take care of babies too!

 

[hueyeats]

Well, my advise for an accurate sexing would be to visit the vet.

I mean it could just be a few hours thing where its female piggy's PMS BUT, see a vet for confirmation!

You really do not want to end up with 124 piggies... and that will happen with breeding & that number is possible within a couple of year!

 

[bamby71994]

Yes this is normal behavior! Purring is a warning, along with teeth chattering. Don't be to worry if one humps the another, they are just asserting their dominance. I would double check the gender of each guinea pig to make sure.

 

[fieryone]

Two of my pigs do this when they are in heat and all three of my pigs are in fact female.

 

[Ly&Pigs]

It's called rumblestrutting, it has nothing to do with PMS (sows don't really get PMS, but some sows can get a bit crabby when they are in heat). It's normal for boars to do it to boars and it's normal for sows to do it to other sows. Rumblestrutting is a dominance dance.

 

[dra&pigs]

Ditto Ly.
Both my boys and girls rumblestrutt and its been a few years without any babies.