Two week old baby piggies without mom!

[AppleMom]

I posted this before. I need advice really urgent. My husband got home yesterday with two baby girl gpigs. They are to my knowledge 2 weeks and 1 day. I try email the breeder this is a first time thing. I never buy piggies like this. I go to pet shops. But my husband was the one that got them. She never email me back. I need to know if I should buy a formula for them? Should I put my older girl to foster them? I know I have to quarentine the babies but I'm scare they won't make it with out a adult piggy to fallow. I don't know how much they weight. I don't have a kitchen scale. I've try putting hay, pellets, water and Romanian lettuce and corn. But they don't eat. I'm going crazy. PLEASE I NEED ADVICE FROM SOMEBODY WITH EXPERIENCE. !

 

[Shellza]

I'm really sorry, I have no experience of baby pigs, but I didn't want to read and run. Hopefully someone with some experience will be able to help you soon. In the meantime, have a browse through the pregnancy section. There may be something there to help you.

 

[Wiebke]

No formula needed. it is not recommended for orphans. As guinea pigs are roaming animals, their babies are are born fully mobile, with eyes open and furred up; they are also able to nibble on hard foods from the first day of their life and can theoretically survive on their own. Mummy's milk will give them extra protection and a good start, but yours have had that. At two weeks old, they should be fully able to eat a normal piggy diet; they don't need any extra feeding now apart from what we have recommended.

Just feed mushed up pellets, they are easier to eat at that age. Do NOT try to syringe feed anything; you can kill a baby of things go down the wrong way. Guinea pig guts guts are not laid out for dairy; they work best on a diet of up to 80% hay. http://www.guinealynx.info/handfeeding.html#pups

 

[AppleMom]

Thank you for the advice. My girls are doing wonderful. They are fully eating pellets, hay and even vegetable. They do everything my girl Apple does. Thank God for that. I was scare they wouldn't have made it with out Apple's guide. The tiniest of the two is the one that eats the most. Who would have taught it.

 

[Wiebke]

It is always much easier if babies have an auntie or uncle pig to teach them and to socialise them. Some babies that don't have that support can end up with behavioural problems if they have been separated too early.