Baby "Penny Pigs"

[kherrmann3]

I love guinea pigs! I've never had one, though. I sometimes call them "fweepers" because of their silly noise.

 

[SunnyCait]

No baby penny pigs yet. We're all impatient. *sighs*

 

[kherrmann3]

:hyper:

ETA: I have no idea what a newborn guinea pig looks like. I would assume just like any other rodent when it's first born... Just bigger.

 

[DeniseJP]

SunnyCait wrote:

The good thing is, guinea pigs don't really have oodles of babies, like rats or mice or dogs, even. So keeping all of them is something that is totally possible and doable. I think the average is 2-4?

John was home for lunch and he goes "Everything's pregant/having babies here! Who's next??" then he looks pointedly at Alexis and just shakes his head. "Oh Alexis. Poor poor Alexis." It was funny.

Not to scare you but I had a guinea pig years ago and she had 7 (yes, true) babies. One was born dead in a mummified form but the other 6 went on to have good lives.

I will get my piggy fix here...

Denise

 

[luvthempigs]

kherrmann3 wrote:

:hyper:

ETA: I have no idea what a newborn guinea pig looks like. I would assume just like any other rodent when it's first born... Just bigger.

Guinea pig babies come out looking like an adult only in pint size :biggrin2:They have all their hair, eyes are open and they get up and start walking pretty much as soon as they are born.

It really was awesome to watch. I picked each one up once momma had cleaned them and welcomed them into the world

 

[irishbunny]

luvthempigs wrote:

kherrmann3 wrote:

:hyper:

ETA: I have no idea what a newborn guinea pig looks like. I would assume just like any other rodent when it's first born... Just bigger.

Guinea pig babies come out looking like an adult only in pint size :biggrin2:They have all their hair, eyes are open and they get up and start walking pretty much as soon as they are born.

It really was awesome to watch. I picked each one up once momma had cleaned them and welcomed them into the world

Haha yeah my friend got two guinea pigs for free and one morning she came down and it looked like they had just multiplied, there was little guinea pigs running everywhere

 

[kherrmann3]

A former co-worker of mine told me about her grandparent's farm once. They had two guinea pigs, and one was a boy and one a girl. The boy piggy did what boy piggies do best, and the pregnant female got out. The boy piggy followed right behind her. She gave birth in their barn somewhere (they never found out where). But, when the people would come out to feed them (they gave up on catching them), there would be this chorus of "Fweep!" coming from the grass by the barn. The grass would wiggle around, then a whole herd of piggies would run out.

 

[JadeIcing]

SunnyCait wrote:

LMAO Shiloh, in the rat world we say congRATS! Haha! I think congrabbits is very catchy too.