Guinea Pig Weight Chart

[Cherry Berry]

Hello, amazing Guinea Pig Parents,

Hope you and your little ones are doing great. ❤

I was wondering if this is a guinea pig chart available as in their healthy weight according to their age and what is a healthy weight gain?

As my boys are babies and gaining weight. This would be helpful.


Best wishes,
Guinea Pig Mum

 

[piggieminder]

Weight - Monitoring and Management

All about weight in the above link it explains things far better than I can!

 

[Cherry Berry]

Weight - Monitoring and Management

All about weight in the above link it explains things far better than I can!

Thanks

 

[Wiebke]

Hello, amazing Guinea Pig Parents,

Hope you and your little ones are doing great. ❤

I was wondering if this is a guinea pig chart available as in their healthy weight according to their age and what is a healthy weight gain?

As my boys are babies and gaining weight. This would be helpful.


Best wishes,
Guinea Pig Mum

Hi!

Weight charts for guinea pigs are useless as their weight varies so enormously.

Please take the time to read our Weight guide. It contains information on how you can easily check whether your guinea pig is a good weight for its size at any age (checking the 'heft' or BMI for over/underweight) and what you need to look out for during life-long once weekly weight monitoring. You should find it very helpful because it discusses all aspects around weight.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

 

[Cherry Berry]

Hi!

Weight charts for guinea pigs are useless as their weight varies so enormously.

Please take the time to read our Weight guide. It contains information on how you can easily check whether your guinea pig is a good weight for its size at any age (checking the 'heft' or BMI for over/underweight) and what you need to look out for during life-long once weekly weight monitoring. You should find it very helpful because it discusses all aspects around weight.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

Thanks, I will have a look.

 

[Cherry Berry]

I read the guide however I didn't exactly understand heft. Is it their back-side?

 

[PigglePuggle]

Heft is usually measured by how much fat you can feel over the ribs- in a healthy piggy you should still be able to feel the ribs, but under a nice layer of muscle and fat. If the ribs feel to be only under skin and you can feel every rib then piggy might be too thin. If you cant feel ribs at all piggy might be too fat. The heft over the hip bones can also guide you to a piggy that might be too thin, they shouldnt stick out noticeably in younger piggies- but older piggies might have more prominant hip bones on top but a saggy fat tummy underneath, gravity and lost muscle tone as they age can affect piggies in just the same way as people!

 

[Wiebke]

I read the guide however I didn't exactly understand heft. Is it their back-side?

'Heft' is the feel around the ribs: whether there is too much or too little fat on them.
Heft as an english word means the weight of something.

 

[Cherry Berry]

Thanks

 

[Swissgreys]

I have always kept track of all of my piggie weights in a standard Excel sheet (Number also works if you are on a Mac).

I don't focus on the numbers alone, but when they are babies I look for an overall weight gain over time.
Once they are adults I look for a basically stable weight from week to week, but don't panic over occasional small losses and gains.