Do Boars Smell More?

[kylie_Everrett]

I have two male guinea pigs but they just smell so much? is it because its summer? is there anything I can do? It's the normal guinea pig smell just you can smell from a distance. I think it's particularly one of them I was feeding the other at the bars and when he approached to get his own he just wafted, even with the cage freshly washed. Am I going to just have to learn to live with it or is it seasonal? Both guineas are healthy and happy, have been bathed but are just stinky.

 

[Garden]

I have just posted that my boar cage smells too. dont think its the pigs in my case think it is the cage almost straight away after clean

 

[Kerrie74]

I've got 6 boars and 3 sows, the only cage that really smells is the one with the boar who has kidney and bladder stones because he pee's a lot, I don't noticed any smell from any of my guinea's really, apart from the usual veg breath and hay fur

 

[kylie_Everrett]

Do you think it could be the heat like guinea pig sweat?

 

[Laura mason]

I find with my boars when I do a full cage clean I keep a couple of the things in it from before it was cleaned...that way their scent in still in the cage and they don't feel the need to mark it as much X

 

[niklovesrats]

I keep mine on fleece and its taken off and shaken every day and changed every 3 days and I don't get any smell but my hamsters smell on sawdust so don't know if its the fleece that works with the boars against traditional cage and hutches

 

[The3LittlePigs]

I have three boars and although I've never had sows I can't say I've noticed a particular scent until it comes to my oldest boar, who is around five years old now. How old are your boars; perhaps its a natural musk that accumulates with age? I imagine the activity of their glands would increase this too; my oldest boar often marks the cage to show the smaller piggies that its his territory, which may be why he smells a little stronger, perhaps?

 

[Toni D]

I've previously had neutered boars living with groups of girls but currently have 3 pairs of young boars - I have to say that I definitely think boars are smellier. I think it is when mine are going through hormone/body changes as it comes and goes with their dominance behaviour. I have had older unneutered boars before and didn't notice the smell so I am hopeful it will improve once they are fully mature. I may be wrong but this is my experience so far.

 

[helenk6]

Hi I find one of my boys smells when I change the fleece or put a new fleece item in the cage, I thought he was sent marking if Guinea pigs even do that but that's the only time I really notice any smell