best separate them u don't want to stress out the mom and her kids by having a guy poking ur piggy mom

Mine need to clean the toilet every 3 days and the whole cage once a week.
All my pigs eat oxbow. hagen they will just play turn the bowl around, pee on it, and wheek wheek ask for other foods

I read somewhere that the theory is Hagen contains corns, and corns are not good for their digestive system. Cant point out the actual source though.

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Added on March 28, 2011, 10:37 amMore pics of my grandchildren!







This post has been edited by emino: Mar 28 2011, 10:37 AM

omai.. look at those leg.. look like rabbit leg liao.. a well fed piggy indeed.. lol

wahhhh..

photograph sessions my cavies with strawberries




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omai u kasi the whole strawberries ... they ate it all? mine dont like straw berries but like blueberries..

hi guys.. wanna let go some of my cavies for a very cheap price..
they are abby, sheltie and shebby..

i realised that those guinea pig that sold in pet shop is quite small in size, althou they are adult, but the 1 i raised is quite big in size..
any raising these "big" species and mind to tell me more on that?
newbie here...

well i m sure if u can show their picture here.. i think there are dozen people here wanna adopt them..

OMG! dude ur grandkids are ADORABLE!!

Proper diet.

Most on the pet shop just give them kangkung and cheap pellets. Sometimes, even rabbit pellets.

Of course cant compare with us who gave them proper hays, oxbow pellets and various types of veges.

emino, stop poisoning me with ur grandchildren's picta xDD
been trying to not come in but the pigs are really cute!! Its good that I am now not gonna take in any sort of pets for at least a year or so, if not I'm gonna hunt for my fave pigs which have yet to be found by me hahaha

btw, one of them is white n grey color? or white n faded black?

Those pictures are for photographs sessions, after that i take only 1 strawberry and sliced it to several pieces. Of all 5 gps, only Ebi like strawberry. She can eat one whole. But, Ebi is the one who is very choosy, i never thought she like strawberry. The other 2 eat very small amount and other 2 dont eat at all after smell. But they all like to eat the green strawberries leaves.

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Added on March 29, 2011, 6:02 pmAny of you get allergy problem with guinea pigs?


This post has been edited by shukri77: Mar 29 2011, 06:02 PM

MEE!!!!
It's kinda weird thou. When I got my 1st GP thou I had him only for a week plus (he was 'too' underage that time) I have no sort of allergy at all. I was petting him for few hours and even put my face near him but nothing happen. When he passed away and I got my 2nd GP not long after that, surprisingly just in 1 day I brought my GP back, I sneeze for few times (still dunno its was due to the allergic reaction) and thought its normal, when suddenly I see my eyes were so red and teary I got a shock!! After that, when I came near to any GP I will sneeze like crazy

Until yest, when I went to PLC and see the GP there, no more sneezing like last time. But cant be sure either if I really was allergic towards them or not >< Sometimes I will go to places that have GP and try to go near the cage to see if I got sneeze or not LOL Wanna make sure that the allergic reaction not gonna coming back if I decided to take in another GP in the future

The funny thing is, I don't know what is the cause of allergic reaction that time as I always wash my hand with those antiseptic soap, before and after petting my pets

I'm allergic as well. Cannot play long with them. But I own 7 GPs now. Cant live with them, cant live without them.

hah truly u r a gp lover. Last time i see a dr, he suggest me to do more cleaning of the cage and shampoo the gps. After two weeks i get back the allergy. If i clean the cage and shampoo the gps weekly may be i dont get allergy.

I have thought to giveup up keeping gps bcoz of the allergy. But after 2 minutes i missed my gps alot.

This post has been edited by shukri77: Mar 30 2011, 04:49 PM

jus remember to wash ur hand thoroughly after playing with them.. sometimes it is their hair which might be stain my their pee.. their pee contain calcium carbonate which is reported to cause itchiness on some people... one of the reason to the allergy

xavi5567, I just read your first few posts and it was so long and informative but I did not read until whether it says GPs can be reared in rooms or whether it didn't mention at all but anyway this is my question la.

Can i rear my GP in my room cause im afraid it causes my room to have lots of their fur in the air. Another thing I'd like to mention is, I have a cat at home and I reared a hamster before in a cage. The cat somehow managed to open the cage and killed my pitiful hamsters. Do you know of some ways to overcome this, other than lock my door when I'm out. I wish for the GP to feel safe if i am going to rear it.

if u plan to keep in your room, few things you need to consider

1. u have to get those cage like zoozone, covered up with wired top to prevent your cat in.
2. regular grooming your gp.grooming can actually remove the dead hair...so by grooming them everyday, it actually lower down the percentage of the dead fur flying around
3. clean the cage every 4-5 days if u dont have any foul smell caused from the pee.

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Added on March 30, 2011, 6:18 pmmuchan~ come come come get your gp hobby back..keke....

This post has been edited by jason86: Mar 30 2011, 06:18 PM