HELP me please?

Question

ok i think my guineapig is pregnant shes fat and im not sure but i think i felt her stomach move i cant take her to vets till wednesday so if she is should i feed her anything special because ive never had a preggers guineapig before

my guinea pig has bein more vocal today then normal and i have had her for 6-7 months

Answer 1

You will definitely know if she's pregnant if her sides are bulging and she's started splaying her legs as they get big and uncomfortable in a very short time. Also her teats may be larger and pinker than usual.

The only thing I can suggest regarding feeding her more is to give her extra hay, fruit and cucumber and maybe a vit mix in her bowl.

NEVER give raspberry leaf (although they do like this) or raspberry anything as this can bring on early labour causing a miscarriage and possibly death in your pet. The only time you should give this is if she's weeks overdue (like mine was).

It takes an average of 63 days for a guinea to give birth and once the babies are born you should continue giving her extra nutrients for at least 6 weeks.

Good luck! New baby guineas are SO cute.

Answer 2

I assume that you keep more than one guinea pig - and that they are of more than one sex - or is this a new acquisition?

Don't panic! If she has got this far in her pregnancy then feeding her anything different is unlikely to change the outcome. Just make sure that she is comfortable and has lots of water, a good basic food and some of the stuff that she likes to eat that is healthy. Take her to the vet when you can and see what they say! It really could be that she had a touch of indigestion and that she is a bit on the heavy side!

Good luck with her if she is preggers!

Answer 3

I WORK AT A RESCUE and deal with pregnant g-pigs and their babies all the time. Right, the best thing to do is to keep her warm, and away from other guinea-pigs. Give her a small handful of grass each day, and a spring cabbage leaf, half an apple and half a carrot. Also feed her on a good quality guinea-pig feed. Supa Excel is brillient, comes in a bright orange bag. There is excel, and supa excel, make sure it is the supa one, however it looks boring and g-pigs take a while to eat it. The best thing to do is make sure she eats, and give her good quality hay in the private blacked off section of her hutch. This is where she will nest, and she will enjoy the hay too. Do not squeeze her. If she is pregnant you could damage the babies.

Answer 4

Don't worry, give her as much food as she will eat. Seperate her from any other guinea pigs, especially any males, as they will eat the babies. Make sure she has plenty of bedding, and let her get on with it. She doesn't need to go to the vet unless you think she is having problems with the birth. She will almost certainly give birth overnight, and the babies look like miniture guinea pigs. Although they do suckle, they also eat solid food from the start so plenty of food available once they are born. We used to feed porridge oats as well as guinea pig food and the babies allways did really well on those. You need to seperate the boys from the girls at about 4 - 6 weeks. The boys can breed at 6 weeks old. If you have several guinea pigs, then unless you want more babies then you either need to seperate the boys from the girls or have the boys neutered. The babies are gorgous - have fun with them

Answer 5

Here is some information I got off of a website full of Guinea Pig issues.

Breeding Considerations

The single most important breeding consideration is that female guinea pigs should be first bred before 7 months of age. If the first breeding is delayed beyond this time, serious (sometimes life-threatening) problems with delivery are encountered. Females should be first bred between 3 and 7 months of age. Males should be 34 months old at their first breeding.
The guinea pig's heat cycle lasts 16 days. The period during which the female is receptive to the male and will allow breeding lasts about 8 hours. Female guinea pigs can come back into heat 15 hours after giving birth. This is called a "postpartum estrus," which means that they can be nursing a litter and pregnant at the same time!
Pregnancy lasts an average of 63 days. The larger the litter, the shorter the term of pregnancy .and vice versa. The duration of pregnancy for guinea pigs is unusually long when compared with that of other rodents.

Pregnant sows (females) exhibit a grossly enlarged abdomen during the latter stages of pregnancy. It is not uncommon for their body weight to double during pregnancy. The time of delivery may be difficult to determine because of the relatively long gestation period and because pregnant sows do not build nests. However, the week before a sow is about to deliver a litter, a slowly widening separation of the pelvis develops just in front of the external genitalia. This separation reaches slightly more than 1 inch in the hours just before delivery.

This separation of the pelvis does not develop in females that are bred for the first time after 7 months of age, creating an impossible and tragic situation. Delivery of the young is not possible and a cesarean section must usually be performed to save the life of the sow and her babies.
An uncomplicated delivery usually requires about 1/2 hour, with an average of 5 minutes between delivery of each baby. Litter sizes range from 1 to 6 young, with an average of 34. Litters resulting from the first breeding are usually very small. Abortions and stillbirths are common with guinea pigs throughout their breeding lives.

The young are born relatively mature. They are unusually large and fully furred, and can walk about. They also have teeth and open eyes at this time. Even though newborn guinea pigs can eat solid food and drink water from a container, they should be allowed to nurse their mother for at least 2 weeks.

Here's the website:

http://www.ahc.umn.edu/rar/MNAALAS/GPig.html#Breeding

Take her to the vet for them to tell you. If she is pregnant, then she'll need more calcium and will need to eat Alfalfa hay, but the other guinea pig can't.

I hope that this helps you.

Answer 6

Simple answer...keep her separated from any other Pigs you may have.

Feed her some fresh vegetables, vitamin C is very important for pregnant guineas. Kale, Green Peppers and even small amounts for Kiwi are good treats in addition to your normal diet.

In addition GPs take care of the actual birth process themselves and do a fairly good job. You will likely come in one day and have 2-4 cute furry additons in the cage.

Answer 7

First of all, do you have 2 guinea pigs?? Or did you recently get this one from a friend or pet store? Because if you don't have two of them, then I don't think it could be pregnant. But if you just recently got it- it may be pregnant but whoever or whereever you got it from should have told you it was pregnant. I don't think you need to feed it anything special but you could call the vet and just ask them if you need to.

Answer 8

No nothing special ! Make sure you havn't got a male there when she gives birth as she will come into season immediately after

Answer 9

you should just continue giving her a diet especially bought for cavies,these will have all the essential minerals and vitamins in that she will need,I don't think you are meant to give them lettuce,but am sure a poster with more knowledge on that will come along in a minute
good luck with her,
Wendy

Answer 10

go see a doctor that is good with piggys