Just got a new baby pig

Lauraarse03

Lauraarse03

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So I just brought home a four week old baby guinea pig and I wanted to know the correct way to bond her to my other two female guinea pigs who are each a year old I have a whole new setup with lots of space two of everything I just want to make sure it's easy transition for the new baby if anyone can please let me know and give me some ideas I appreciate it thanks
 
You need to put them on neutral territory and allow the other two to accept her and them form a relationship with her. After several hours in a bonding pen you them move them to the cage. If it’s new and the other two haven’t lived in it, then that’s good. If the other two have lived in it, then it will also need to be cleaned down.
No hides should be put in the bonding pen, only a pile of hay pen. Two exit hides can only be added once they are ready to go back in the cage.

Please do the bonding straight away as a four week old piggy is too young to be alone.

You need three of everything in the cage now you have three piggies.

This is the guide which explains how to carry out a bonding

Bonding and Interaction: Illustrated social behaviours and bonding dynamics
 
Just remembered you said you were potentially going to join a second Midwest cage to the original midwest you had. If that is what you have done, then you will need to make sure the cage is thoroughly cleaned down while the piggies are in the bonding pen. What you don’t want is for your original two to think of little Fiona as invading their territory
 
A tip I got from a Rescue where I adopted my now RB piggy Pretty Patsy is to rub down the newly cleaned out cage with something that smells of all three of them so that your piggies smell it as "their" space straight away.
 
Yes so I bought another Midwest cage it's coming in today I was planning on cleaning the whole cage out that the other two have been in I have the special spray and soap to get the scent out my head Pig she's the one that's pretty much following around the baby and bumping it in the butt here and there but then leaves her alone and goes to eat or lay down and then the baby comes right back up to her and sits with her and eats right next to her and she's fine my other Pig the less dominant one has pretty much taken her in as her own already LOL and lets her lay in the house with her.
 
Lauraarse03 said:
Yes so I bought another Midwest cage it's coming in today I was planning on cleaning the whole cage out that the other two have been in I have the special spray and soap to get the scent out my head Pig she's the one that's pretty much following around the baby and bumping it in the butt here and there but then leaves her alone and goes to eat or lay down and then the baby comes right back up to her and sits with her and eats right next to her and she's fine my other Pig the less dominant one has pretty much taken her in as her own already LOL and lets her lay in the house with her.
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So you’ve already put them together? If so, then you now need to see it through to conclusion. You can’t separate them now.
Thats good, although there shouldn’t be any hides or houses in a bonding pen
 
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