Guinea Pigs Dilemma

dark_jedi_ire

GirlFriend has lovely little pigs, But one of the females they gave birth to is blind in one eye, the local pet shop not being able to take her its looks like we will be keeping her, but dont know what to do, can we get her the snip so she will not get up the duff ? or is there something else we can do, we may have to give her away to a good home if anyone would be interested ? She is a Tri colour Rosette and really nice. its not that we dont have space to keep here ( space we have lots of ) its what options we have,, Can females be nutured ( spelling ) safely ?

Any help is great thanks all

R+J

hadook

Neutering female piggies is a very complex procedure...It is possible but every piggy vet/ breeder/ expert I've ever spoken to is against neutering female piggies if there is any other option. The other thing to consider is that the boar can impregnate her quite young - well before the optimum age to neuter her. (I assume you're planning to keep her with her parents?)

Can you not keep another female to keep her company?

Sigma Force

What's the exact set up? Is there a male living with female (s)?
If so remove the male now or you will end up with more piggies.
Are all the babies female?
It's hard to say what to do unless the housing set up is clear.
However it is possible to neuter a male guinea pig, never a good idea to spay a female unless there is some serious medical reason.
If she neuters the male he needs to be kept seperate from the females afterwards for about 5 weeks (takes a while for them to become infertile).
Then he can be re-intorduced to the rest of the pigs.
If any of the babies are male you can put the adult male and one baby male together in their own housing.

Click on my link in my sig. for more guinea pig info.
It also has links to other guinea pig sites which may be helpful.

doctor evil

Split the male and females, less hassle all round.

dark_jedi_ire

Hiya all

thanks for all the help,

The plan is to get him the snip so were going to seperate them now and get him spayed,

This way she gets to keep him and blindy ( yeh she nicknamed her,)

happy all round ( except for him of course hehe )

Cheers

Rob+Jade

Sigma Force

He'll be fine, just make sure you choose a vet that has experience with neutering piggies, keep him nice and warm and make sure he isn't fasting before the op and that he eats soon after. Also keep an eye on the stitches they will come out in 10 days unless they use disolving ones (they aren't as strong) sometimes they pick at the stitches so just to keep an eye on that, the last fella we had neutered did the job himself took him all the way to the vets to get them out and all lol but he was fine.

Do wait the 5 weeks before putting him back though just in casey.
After the time is up he'll be one very happy piggy they do love company.