Guinea pig making deep noise.

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My guinea pigs always squeak and stuff, but since I have gotten them a bigger cage I am hearing this deep like purring owl sound if it makes any sense. Does anyone know what its called?
 
Are they wiggling their bums while they do it? If so, it sounds like it could be rumblestrutting.
 
Wigglepig said:
My guinea pigs always squeak and stuff, but since I have gotten them a bigger cage I am hearing this deep like purring owl sound if it makes any sense. Does anyone know what its called?
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Hi! Do you have boys?

Then it is very likely that are they rumblestrutting, i.e. making a rumbling sound while shifting the weight from one back leg to the other, which makes their bum wiggle.
It is very typical boar behaviour that they use to measure up against each other in order to establish and confirm their hierarchy as well as to show themselves off to sows, too. You usually get a lot of that with boars on a daily basis. He who has strongest and deepest rumble is usually top boar.
Sows also rumblestrut for dominance, but usually only during bonding or when in season.
 
Wiebke said:
Hi! Do you have boys?

Then it is very likely that are they rumblestrutting, i.e. making a rumbling sound while shifting the weight from one back leg to the other, which makes their bum wiggle.
It is very typical boar behaviour that they use to measure up against each other in order to establish and confirm their hierarchy as well as to show themselves off to sows, too. You usually get a lot of that with boars on a daily basis. He who has strongest and deepest rumble is usually top boar.
Sows also rumblestrut for dominance, but usually only during bonding or when in season.
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2 are both girls forsure and the other 2 are 2 week old babies I'm not for sure but we think they are also both girls
 
Its usually when they are cuddling in the igloo. So i dunno who is doing it.
 
If one of your girls is the mum, she will be around time for her second season since she gave birth, which would tie in with what @Wiebke has said. You'll need to be sure of your babies sex soon, as boys need to be separated at 3 weeks, or they could get mum or another female pregnant again
 
Wiebke said:
Any baby boys need to be searated around 3 weeks, so PLEASE double check the gender now! Sows come into season again for the second time after birth around day 15-17.
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/sexing-separating-baby-boars-and-rehoming-babies.109391/
Sexing Guide
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I posted pictures last week and 2 people said they both look like girls, I cant feel a penis ridge or anything, I was going to get them professionally checked a day or two before 3 weeks. But I just called I am taking them today to get them checked. I do not want anymore babies. Plus my other one may be pregnant also and my husband will flip lol.
 
Wigglepig said:
I posted pictures last week and 2 people said they both look like girls, I cant feel a penis ridge or anything, I was going to get them professionally checked a day or two before 3 weeks. But I just called I am taking them today to get them checked. I do not want anymore babies. Plus my other one may be pregnant also and my husband will flip lol.
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If it is any consolation to you, I even double-checked the 3 boys that were born here when I emergency holiday sat a highly pregnant local sow and where I was absolutely sure that I had sexed them correctly. I also got confirmation from a rescue lady that took in one of the three boys (another one has come home to me and the third is going to join his mother and auntie once he has been neutered and passed his post-op wait).

In the case of sexing babies, better safe than sorry is worth doing and overdoing! :tu:
 
Wiebke said:
If it is any consolation to you, I even double-checked the 3 boys that were born here when I emergency holiday sat a highly pregnant local sow and where I was absolutely sure that I had sexed them correctly. I also got confirmation from a rescue lady that took in one of the three boys (another one has come home to me and the third is going to join his mother and auntie once he has been neutered and passed his post-op wait).

In the case of sexing babies, better safe than sorry is worth doing and overdoing! :tu:
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I got them checked, they are both girls, I looked up rumble struting on youtube and that is what they are doing. Its cute so as long as I'm not going to have anymore babies I'm fine. I'm so happy they are all girls.
 
Wigglepig said:
I got them checked, they are both girls, I looked up rumble struting on youtube and that is what they are doing. Its cute so as long as I'm not going to have anymore babies I'm fine. I'm so happy they are all girls.
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It's always much easier when you have unplanned baby girls... ;)
 
Sorry to ask questions on your thread but has anyone pig rumble strutted youselfs? When i first got burnie he was doing it on my lap
 
My girls will "purr" on your lap - sometimes just a vibration and sometimes a purring noise but it's nowhere near as deep as the rumble they make if one is in a hidey and the other one wants to go in. But I have never seen a classic rumblestrut with my two and it's only recently that I've heard this really deep rumble at all.
 
Pigwhisperer said:
My girls will "purr" on your lap - sometimes just a vibration and sometimes a purring noise but it's nowhere near as deep as the rumble they make if one is in a hidey and the other one wants to go in. But I have never seen a classic rumblestrut with my two and it's only recently that I've heard this really deep rumble at all.
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Yes, I havent seen any butt shaking or anything and it happened once they got more room in the cage. So I thought they were just happy.
 
When you change their living space there is usually a bit of re-establishing of the hierarchy. Rumblestrutting is mild dominance behaviour, with or without the bum wiggling, so it makes sense that you're seeing it at that time. If you had boys, it's daily (or in my Chicco's case constant).
 
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