Guinea pig weights?

[Pxhione]

Hey there!

I was wondering if anyone is able to give me a rough idea on healthy Guinea pig weights?
I have three sows, Caramel, Paris and Sunny.

We rescued all 3 of them 4 weeks ago. We found out yesterday that there might be a chance that Caramel is actually pregnant from a sexing misshap in the shelter before we got her. She had a ultrasound, the vet confirmed but was not 100%.

She is 12-13 weeks old and is weighing 670 Grams.

Is this a healthy weight for her age or is it perhaps another sign that she could be pregnant?

Any help is welcome!
Thanks in advance

 

[Wiebke]

Hey there!

I was wondering if anyone is able to give me a rough idea on healthy Guinea pig weights?
I have three sows, Caramel, Paris and Sunny.

We rescued all 3 of them 4 weeks ago. We found out yesterday that there might be a chance that Caramel is actually pregnant from a sexing misshap in the shelter before we got her. She had a ultrasound, the vet confirmed but was not 100%.

She is 12-13 weeks old and is weighing 670 Grams.

Is this a healthy weight for her age or is it perhaps another sign that she could be pregnant?

Any help is welcome!
Thanks in advance

Hi!

Since individual guinea pig weights vary enormously at any stage in life, it is impossible to confirm any pregnancy by weight alone.
Please take the time to read this guide here. It talks you through how you can figure out whether your piggy is a good weight for her size by feeling around the ribcage and what exactly you need to look out for.
Weight - Monitoring and Management

The largest babies are triple the size to the smallest viable babies on birth, and that carries on through life. Your girl is on the larger size for her age, but not abnormally so. The other huge variable is the unknown size of a litter - whether your girl is pregnant at all, has only one pup or a large litter of 4-6 babies also makes a huge difference in any weight during the last weeks.

Please be aware that in any pregnancy the weight gain is not steady but that it is exponential with the most weight put on in the last third of a pregnancy when you should also notice other signs of any babies growing. For the most part of a ca. 10 week pregnancy, you and your vet will notice nothing; a vet can also confirm a pregnancy reliably only in the last third of it. You can see a guide with x-rays and scan pictures of embryos in the pregnancy section; it is also part of our pregnancy information pack, as is what I am telling you now.

We very much appreciate that our members with potentially pregnant piggies would love to have confirmation as qucikly as possible, but there is unfortunately no easy and surefire way of telling, apart from a scan or x-ray in the last trimester - or the good oldfashioned having to sit it out. You should know more as your girl is coming closer to her due date, but until then it is as much of a guessing game for us as it is for you.

Please take the time to read our extensive pregnancy advice (the link is in my post on your pregnancy thread) and do your best to make sure that your girls are as fit and healthy as can be. That is the best preparation you can make - and incidentally it won't hurt at all if your girl is turning out to have escaped.