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What happens in the Herald situation then where there are mixed groups of males and females but would happen in the wild with the kit which other over girls I'm just curious
 
The boys are having fun in the outside run
I love hearing them running around and playing
Is anybody know how long after a castration you can start running your pics for
What does it depend on the pig in question
Thanks in advance
 
Maddy said:
What happens in the Herald situation then where there are mixed groups of males and females but would happen in the wild with the kit which other over girls I'm just curious
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I think it must be different in the wild.I know that if you had 2 boys with a girl or even more girls then the boys would fight and it would be such a shame to separate choc and stripey.Have you thought about getting some females, but having them living on their own?
I've got 4 females together downstairs and my 2 boys living together upstairs :)
 
I have done but I struggle with cleaning cages and moving of substrate around because my back is seriously dodgy so having to separate cages would be a nightmare
So that's not an option
 
Does anybody know the timescale as to when the boys are castrated how long can it be before I let them run about in the outside playing closure or does it depend on each pics of recovery time
The last thing I would want them to do is to tear the stitches
 
The boys had a lovely run in the outside enclosure today it started at 7 AM and they got put back in a cage roughly around 2 PM
They love the outside runs ☺️
 
I contacted my vet to ask when it's possible to run them after their castration and they said to give it five days just to be on the safe side but I can run them within four
But it's up to me when I run them the safe zone is four days but I might leave them in the cage for five just to be on the safe side
 
The receptionist when I called up about the time period for after castration for running time ask me if I had any chamomile he and I said I did and they said don't give it to them about a week and a half before the operation so that if your guinea pig that is hyper starts to get hyper after the surgery then you can give him that you're coming down
I said okay so I have stopped feeding them the camomile hey as of yesterday because they going further up on 2 February which is not far away
Next Saturday I will have had to chop exactly for four years
I don't know whether time has gone because it feels like I only just got him
 
Maddy said:
The receptionist when I called up about the time period for after castration for running time ask me if I had any chamomile he and I said I did and they said don't give it to them about a week and a half before the operation so that if your guinea pig that is hyper starts to get hyper after the surgery then you can give him that you're coming down
I said okay so I have stopped feeding them the camomile hey as of yesterday because they going further up on 2 February which is not far away
Next Saturday I will have had to chop exactly for four years
I don't know whether time has gone because it feels like I only just got him
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Can I ask why you are having them castrated?
 
I was wondering the same re; castration. It doesnt change their behaviour just makes them infertile (they can still make babies up to six weeks after castration).
 
The reason why I'm getting Choc done as well a stripey is because I can't separate either of them because they get really upset if you can't find the other one
I just hope I don't lose him when he gets put under because he's for next Saturday
I am getting them castrated because when Chuck passes I want to have a couple of females and stripey would've already have been had his Tangley is taken off so there won't be any little parcels
 
Maddy said:
The reason why I'm getting Choc done as well a stripey is because I can't separate either of them because they get really upset if you can't find the other one
I just hope I don't lose him when he gets put under because he's for next Saturday
I am getting them castrated because when Chuck passes I want to have a couple of females and stripey would've already have been had his Tangley is taken off so there won't be any little parcels
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Maybe get stripey done but leave choc as he is?
 
Then you Heidi houses which I am going to get this afternoon will be chocs birthday present
I celebrate their birthdays on the date I actually got them
 
Thankfully for me and the piglets Pets At Home did have the largest sticks for the pics to how you doing so now we both boys have got their own separate house which neither of them can track the other one in because the we have set them up as there is an escape route planes
Correction an escape at both ends
 
The boys had a much better sleep last night because no they haven't own independence with spaces
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That has really helped
You're both bouncing around the plane closure this morning as if nothing happened between the pair of them although occasionally chalk will win per extra if you gets too close
Correction if stripy gets too close
I have just change the high in that Heidi houses and they both have had the lettuce which they both ate this morning which is nice to see because yesterday morning they were both so upset that we need any other salad
Correction they wouldn't eat any of their salad
 
The boys can't hate each other that much because they have eaten communally for the past two days which is a massive improvement because they weren't doing that two days before that
I think what has really helped the situation is they have individual sleep places know which seems to have helped the dynamics of the cage get back on a more even keel
 
I think stripey plums are actually hurting him when he moves because when it wanders round the cage he is rumbling away to himself constantly
Chalk does not like this however because he thinks it's directed at him
So then he starts making squeaky squeaky noises
They drive me round the bend
I need tranquillisers
 
Maddy said:
I think stripey plums are actually hurting him when he moves because when it wanders round the cage he is rumbling away to himself constantly
Chalk does not like this however because he thinks it's directed at him
So then he starts making squeaky squeaky noises
They drive me round the bend
I need tranquillisers
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That rumbling noise is a sign of dominance and suggests that stripey is top dog.(It will be nothing to do with his man bits).The squeaking noise you hear from chock is his way of saying 'ok I get it, you're the boss' lol.
 
To be perfectly fair I have had someone cited in when Chuck is making a squealing squealing noises and stripey is actually standing on his back when he's doing it I don't think you likes being stood on particularly when he is trying to eat and straight peas trampling all over in our prayer chalk
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They are almost back to normal because I don't smell sick any more and I think that's what made them really on settled was the fact that I was really ill because I was coming off the morphine so I'm wondering if that has something to do with why the dynamics and the kids went mad because I was ill
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There is still a lot of rambling going on but there isn't any attacking which is fantastic
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Both my boys have had their operation they are now at home recovering from the anaesthetic
The vet wanted to know what I was giving in to eat because apparently they came round from the anaesthetic in the quickest time that they have ever had so I feel such a proud rodent mummy
They are both eating and moving around slowly but it's a start
 
I was woken up at 4 o'clock this morning by very hungry pigs
I have never been so pleased to hear squealing noises and animals in my life even if it wasn't for o'clock I don't know what planet they were on yesterday but are back on plan off this morning
Correction planet Earth
They've both eaten half the amount of C normally ready in the morning because I thought I would give them half the amount see how they got on with it and ate it like the honey in a week so that's nice
I've also got dandelion and marigold high in the cage which they were eating and I also have dandelion mix from Wilco in there
It's so nice to have my pics back
 
The boys will be going to the vet tomorrow to see how their wins are healing and then I can find out when I can run them again because stripey is back to normal and he is doing mine and chocs head because of the energy he has I wish I had some of what he was running on
He's like Judas cell batteries he just keeps going
 
Stripey also doesn't understand why he isn't getting out for a run but I don't want to run them in case they split the stitches
He keeps shouting at me and making me feel incredibly guilty for not letting him out
Naughty piggy
 
Glad they are both eating again. Hope they continue to get on together well.
 
The boys had their checkup at the vet yesterday and they have been given the all clear for running in a plane closure so we had a short run when you came home from the vet and they're having a longer run this morning because I don't have to go anywhere and till 12:30
 
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