Hi. I am totally new to all this, the forum and guineas in general.
I bought 2 male guineas, just turned 1, last month from a girl that was moving to uni and had to get rid of them, she had quite a few, all in separate cages apart from 2 pairs, one of which we got with a large pet shop cage. We have renamed them Peppa and George. Now George is a very shy little thing which seemed to be the case when she had them. He will run away when you try and pick him up but once you have him he loves being stroked and cuddled. Peppa is a funny one as he will whistle and beg for food and come over to the edge of the cage to see you and he is very inquisitive when you are doing something by the cage.
They have always been in a cage together a far as I can gather but they don't seem to get on very well, always doing their angry little clicking sounds and squaring up to each other. Now the cage they came in wasn't very big and they had no space for themselves so I thought that could of been the problem but me and my hubby have just built them a 2 storey c&c cage and they now have their own little houses as well and they still don't seem to get on. Is this normal? They only moved in to their house last night so do you think they will get on more when they get used to it or will they always have their tiffs?
Another thing is I am worried about is their behaviour in their new cage. As I said George is quite shy anyway but they have both seemed to go into themselves since they've moved in. They are both hiding in their houses and haven't tried to go up the ramp to the next level which is a problem as their food and water is up there. I managed to get them out by pulling their houses out and putting them in the top level so they can have food and water and hoped they would figure out the ramp and go down but they both stayed up there. I moved them back down myself and they have took to their houses again. Is this just normal as they have a new environment or do they just hate their new cage? I'm worried as we have spent alot of time and quite a bit of money on their new cage and the other cage is so small I'd hate it if they just didn't like it. 8...
I bought 2 male guineas, just turned 1, last month from a girl that was moving to uni and had to get rid of them, she had quite a few, all in separate cages apart from 2 pairs, one of which we got with a large pet shop cage. We have renamed them Peppa and George. Now George is a very shy little thing which seemed to be the case when she had them. He will run away when you try and pick him up but once you have him he loves being stroked and cuddled. Peppa is a funny one as he will whistle and beg for food and come over to the edge of the cage to see you and he is very inquisitive when you are doing something by the cage.
They have always been in a cage together a far as I can gather but they don't seem to get on very well, always doing their angry little clicking sounds and squaring up to each other. Now the cage they came in wasn't very big and they had no space for themselves so I thought that could of been the problem but me and my hubby have just built them a 2 storey c&c cage and they now have their own little houses as well and they still don't seem to get on. Is this normal? They only moved in to their house last night so do you think they will get on more when they get used to it or will they always have their tiffs?
Another thing is I am worried about is their behaviour in their new cage. As I said George is quite shy anyway but they have both seemed to go into themselves since they've moved in. They are both hiding in their houses and haven't tried to go up the ramp to the next level which is a problem as their food and water is up there. I managed to get them out by pulling their houses out and putting them in the top level so they can have food and water and hoped they would figure out the ramp and go down but they both stayed up there. I moved them back down myself and they have took to their houses again. Is this just normal as they have a new environment or do they just hate their new cage? I'm worried as we have spent alot of time and quite a bit of money on their new cage and the other cage is so small I'd hate it if they just didn't like it. 8...
. I manage to pull them out once today in their houses and put them on the top level and then I put them back downstairs and when I tried to get them again in the same way I got Peppa out but George has cottoned on and gets out from underneath the house (I think he's the brains of the outfit and Peppa is the brawn, lol) I did manage to scoop him up in the house and get him out and have some cuddles and put them back up as I want them getting thirsty and hungry. When my hubby came in he tried to get Peppa out for a cuddle but he ran down the ramp so at least one of them sort of gets the jist of it. 
