Help - sexing
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This link should help https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/illustrated-sexing-guide-for-all-ages.156297/. Sexing by photo should not be relied upon, a hands on check yourself is the safest, But I will also tag in our pregnancy experts @VickiA @Wiebke
Hi and welcome!
Unfortunately the angle in your picture is not suitable to see whether the crucial bit is a round male penis button or an angular female knob. Can you please post another picture that shows the button head on instead of sideways together with the slit below it?
It would be great if you please had a read and a look at our illustrated sexing guide (click on the green link below). To every reliable sexing examination there is a hands-on part of the areas that are less obvious but much clearer in gender difference; sadly it is this often deciding part that is often the clincher - but that we cannot do you for you remotely.
The guide will talk you through checking for the presence/absence of a penis ridge under the skin and for the presence/absence of flaps that seal the opening inside the slit in sows.
Illustrated Sexing Guide
We are still there to help you to make sure that there can be no doubt whatsoever about the gender, but after seeing so many mis-sexing cases even from people who should know better (breeders, pet shop personnel or vets) and helping members that have been failed this way to deal with the ensuing mess we are trying to do our best to teach our members to learn to sex their piggies reliably themselves and never have to rely on the judgement of others ever again. It is not the worst skill to acquire, and not even the most difficult one once you really know where exactly to look!
Ritika
Adult Guinea Pig
It's the same picture can u post another in good lighting and with a bit more close up?
Hi!
Here is a picture that shows you the angle at which we need to have a look at to see all the crucial areas. Yours is from above and not head on. You may need to lift the bum a bit more. Please ask another person to hold your piggy if necessary. A good source of daylight illuminating the crucial area will also help us a lot.
We need to see the button and the slit area below it clearly unfortunately.
Here are some examples that will hopefully show you what we are after.
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are these better
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Please cancel my last messages this is the one I would like you to look at, I have tried from a different angle
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It looks more like a boar to me now.
We still STRONGLY recommend that you feel for a penis ridge under the skin just above the button and check that the slit just below is straight and does not contain a fleshy seal just below the opening. The difference in these two areas is unmistakeable; when you get the same answer from either, you can be 100% sure that you have got the correct gender.
My own guess is not 100% but I can't reach through the screen and handle your boy for you to make absolutely sure as I would (and always do) with any of my own piggies.
As far as I can see without being able to enlarge the pictures as you have made a collage, they are all boys with not yet descended testicles.
Are they living together and - in that case - what are your plans when they reach teenage and the big hormones hit?
Unless you have oodles of space, fights in a traditional cage setting are rather to be expected.
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