So I made a mistake and bought from a pet store....

[Popcorn321]

Don't forget to seperate the boys and girls at 3 weeks, and a good thing to do is to weigh the babies to make sure their all growing up well. They start eating, hay, and pellets after a day old so don't worry about special foods, they usually are weaned by 3 weeks old. Make sure their isn't a male in the cage during the delivery, because they will mate with the female RIGHT after all the babies are out. If you do attend the delivery, don't bud in, or assist unless there's an emergency because it can stress the mother, and don't clean up the mess because the mom needs to do that in order to produce milk. Good Luck (again!) Bye!

 

[elinak9]

Hi. I brought home my baby girl who was very young as well (approx.7weeks) but pregnant and 3 weeks ago she had a baby boy. The birth happened at night and everything went really well. The next day our little one started running around and even tried to eat hay. I was worried sick when she started to get bigger but eventually I calmed down and just hoped that everything is going to be fine. And now it is fine. Little boy is 248grams at 3 weeks of age and mother is happy and energetic (separated at 20 days). And aunty who is Ginger's (the mother) cagemate acted really nicely towards the little one so I'm sure there's nothing to worry about and the pet store cage is unnecessary .
You can read my story here: https://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/threads/106919-The-story-of-how-I-turned-out-to-be-pregnant
Stay strong, everything will be fine

 

[Rummy]

Thank you for the advice @Popcorn321 and @elinak9. Woke up this morning to 3 adorable babies. one black abby (like the supposed dad) One black and orange like the mom and a random black orange and white. Pictures incoming they have just been nursing all morning. Haven't even weighed them yet. hopped on here to try not to bother them. All look wonderful and healthy. It also explains Howies fervent insistence on veggies at 5 am.

 

[Rummy]

Oh and I keep forgetting to mention our other girl Eddie seems to be pregnant as well but with only one. This is going to be a much larger herd than we anticipated. But it will definitely be worth it looking at the little guys

 

[SquigglyPigs]

Yay! Glad everything went okay! Can't wait to see pictures. I love how baby guinea pigs are born looking like miniature adults and start running around right away.

 

[piggsters]

Congratulations on the little babies! Hope Eddie gives birth just as smoothly as Howie did.

Also, are you going to keep the names Howie and Eddie since you now know they are girls? or are you going to keep the names? just curious...

 

[Rummy]

They weigh nothing and are so fast! Weighing them was a heart attack

 

[mamaduck71]

They weigh nothing and are so fast! Weighing them was a heart attack

I have a digital kitchen scale and I put jet in a high sided bowl. She is freaked out and does not move.

 

[Rummy]

Babies!

 

[Rummy]

More.

 

[3littlepigz]

They're beautiful!!! So much cuteness~~~

 

[elinak9]

Oh my, so cute! I'm glad everything turned out fine. They look healthy pups to me. Congrats!

 

[Rummy]

Thanks so much!
I woke up to our last little one. Eddie finally gave birth to her one pup. I now have a happy and what seems to be healthy heard of 6 guinea pigs. I think I hit the lottery because it looks like only one of the 4 pups is a boy so we can have him neutered and stay with the family. (we will be separating him after 3 weeks)

 

[Rummy]

also @piggsters we are keeping the boy names and have now made a theme of it where we will be naming all the girls male names and the boy a female name.

 

[Popcorn321]

Thank you for the advice @Popcorn321 and @elinak9. Woke up this morning to 3 adorable babies. one black abby (like the supposed dad) One black and orange like the mom and a random black orange and white. Pictures incoming they have just been nursing all morning. Haven't even weighed them yet. hopped on here to try not to bother them. All look wonderful and healthy. It also explains Howies fervent insistence on veggies at 5 am.

that's great! What a coincidence i had four babies similar colors! : one white, orange, and brown (like mommy), another brown and white (like mommy), a black one (like the supposed dad), and a balck and orange one (like supposed dad), ALL abyssinians! I'm happy they're healthy, and best wishes!

 

[Rummy]

I dont know if I should make a new post for this but Howie has taken over caring for all 4 babies and won't let Eddie sit with them. Eddies is looking really sad and lonely but she wasn't the best mom at the beginning and I still haven't seen her nurse for sure. As soon as Howie leaves the little one Eddie will go in and cuddle all the babies. When Howie comes back she freaks out at Eddie and kicks her out and there is room for all of them. Any ideas on what to do?

 

[bpatters]

I'd leave them be. Guinea pig moms are pretty indiscriminate when it comes to caring for the pups, which will nurse from any available female.

But what are they in that there's "room for all of them?" They shouldn't have any hidey that only has one door so that no pig can be blocked from getting in or out. You could take the hideys out and drape fleece or towels over the corner of the cage until they're all older.

 

[Rummy]

It's a bunk bed madr of grids where they are on the bottom level.

 

[bpatters]

If one pig can keep another out of it, or can trap another one in it, then open it up or take it out until the pups are older.

 

[Rummy]

Thanks. I'll take them out and keep you posted. Thanks so much!