When Does A Baby Become A Teenager?

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Obviously it can only be approximate but around what age does a baby GP become a teenager and around what she does a teenage GP become an adult?

I've read loads about the sorts of behaviour exhibited at these different stages but not seen much about usual sort of age for each stage.
 
Technically, teenage age starts for boars from 3-5 weeks and for sows from 4-6 weeks old, as they come sexually viable pretty much as soon as they are weaned! Boars hit the big hormones between 4-14 months when their testicles descend and they develop their adult identities. Sows can be somewhat hormonal as well at times during this period, but it doesn't usually lead to fight and fall-outs; they are wired to live in a stable core group of sows. Guinea pigs stop growing around 12-15 months and become much calmer, hormonally settled adult then.

You may find this thread here interesting: https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/biological-facts-and-guinea-pig-society.109062/
 
Wiebke said:
Technically, teenage age starts for boars from 3-5 weeks and for sows from 4-6 weeks old, as they come sexually viable pretty much as soon as they are weaned! Boars hit the big hormones between 4-14 months when their testicles descend and they develop their adult identities. Sows can be somewhat hormonal as well at times during this period, but it doesn't usually lead to fight and fall-outs; they are wired to live in a stable core group of sows. Guinea pigs stop growing around 12-15 months and become much calmer, hormonally settled adult then.

You may find this thread here interesting: https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/biological-facts-and-guinea-pig-society.109062/
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Thanks Wiebke. Just what I was looking for.
 
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