when can i separate a male guine pig baby?

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I have a 17 day old male baby Guinea pig. Today I put him by himself. Is it to soon? He's all by himself in a cage. Will he be ok? I try living him with the girls a couple days more but he started rumbling. And for me that's a no no. I also try getting him with my other pair males that are bonded. But the went crazy with him. Probably because he smells like mommy. And I can't bathe him. Its to soon.

What can I do? Am I doing alright. By putting him by him self. Can you guys give me any advice.
 
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I have a 17 day old male baby Guinea pig. Today I put him by himself. Is it to soon? He's all by himself in a cage. Will he be ok? I try living him with the girls a couple days more but he started rumbling. And for me that's a no no. I also try getting him with my other pair males that are bonded. But the went crazy with him. Probably because he smells like mommy. And I can't bathe him. Its to soon.

What can I do? Am I doing alright. By putting him by him self. Can you guys give me any advice.
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Normally the advice is to leave him with mummy at least 21 days and weighing more than 250g. How much does he weigh? Boys do practice a lot before they are able to cause pregnancies, so the rumbling is completely normal.
I don't have any personal experience with males i.e. whether you can pop him back with mum for the remaining 4 days- I don't know, ultimately though if you are planning on keeping him I wouldn't risk putting him with your 2 males again. You could look at getting him a friend to live in his new cage, or he could live in a cage next to your girls so he can hear them and see them without being able to reach them, and you may consider getting him neutered in the future although this will take several months before he is old enough and then an additional 6 weeks until he could go with your girls.
It is not a decision to be taken lightly, especially without an experienced vet who has performed the procedure on other guineas, it is not without risk but this is a decision you will make when the time comes to it. Hope this helps and hopefully someone with a little more experience can advise better.
 
Boys practice for a few days before they go live. Unless he is over 250g/8 1/2 oz, he cannot do any harm yet. Separation at 17 days is only necessary if you have a very large, well developed boy. The more time he has with mummy and can drink her milk, the better for him.

Before you introduce your little one to the boys, you can give him a wipe down with a damp cloth and then dry him off with another cloth that you have wiped over your two other boys, so he smells like them. That may hopefully help with intros. Also introduce the baby on neutral ground, don't just pop him in with the boys. If they hump him too badly, then he sadly has to go by himself for the time being. Please be aware that subadult boar trios rarely make it to hormonally more adulthood at 15 months old without at least one separation.
Here are tips on how to best introduce and bond piggies: http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/...FAQ-Introducing-and-reintroducing-guinea-pigs
This thread is always worth a good read through re. what is tolerable and what not. That particular rescue lady is starting her intros with a session on the lap. If that is escalating into hostilities, then she won't proceed with intros. Generally, boars are comparatively careful with babies. http://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/showthread.php?59233-Boar-Dating-Service-Wales
 
My boy weight 227.3g. So its safe to be with others girls that aren't mommy and sister. He's 17 day old. I just get scare he may get one of the girls pregnant. It was an accident he's mommy got pregnant in the first place. After 21 I can try introduce him with my other pair of bonded boys. They have smell him twice and they go crazy. I'll give it another try. If not I'll have to get him a buddy he's same age.
 
I would not introduce him to a pair of bonded boars as they could end up falling out. You could wait for him to be old enough then he could be neutered and live with Apple.
 
Apple has 3 other girls with her. One of them is her daughter. And I'm not putting my baby boy with the other 2 boys. I'm scare for my baby. About neuters them I'm scare. They said it can be hard on them. And I haven't found a good vet with experience with gpig. So I would rather get him a buddy of his own than putting him with my 2 teenager boars.
 
Getting him a friendly uncle piggy to teach him the piggy ways would be best indeed; preferably one that is not a baby himself, so they have an age gap, which should make the hormonal months easier to navigate.

But you have done well by your little baby boy; he is well on schedule weight wise!
 
Thank you so much. I been doing everything you guys told me. With the babies. And them n there mommy are doing great. I'll be getting him a friend. Because I don't want more accident. With any other girls of mine.
 
Yeah way to soon he needs to be with mum till six weeks and then he gets separated from mum and all girl guinea pigs x
 
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Yeah way to soon he needs to be with mum till six weeks and then he gets separated from mum and all girl guinea pigs x
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Please be aware that by six weeks, ALL baby boars and sows are sexually fully operational and that impregnation of mum and sisters is likely to have already happened. We are seeing cases of baby girl pregnancies/mother-son pregnancies here and in rescues on a sadly still far too regular basis due to this misinformation.

Here are the vital biological guinea pig stats, as per relevant scientific literature.
http://www.guinealynx.info/reproduction.html
 
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