You might remember me talking about Butch ...

[Peegs]

Hi everyone,

A few of you might remember me posting on here a while ago asking advice on whether castrating a male and putting him in with some girlfriends would it be a good idea.

Well he was castrated the other day and has been spending a couple of days inside being spoilt rotten and tomorrow he will be going out in the garden (weather permitting) to meet the girls and have a nibble on the grass exciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiited for him

Pictures of my new addition will be added asap

 

[Connie]

PLEASE dont put him with intact females untill 6 weeks after the surgery! He will still be fertile untill that time! (meaning getting them pregnant, and loads of babies!

 

[Peegs]

well this is the thing the nurse said he could go in the day after his surgery (!) and someone else said i should leave it 2 weeks,

this is just supervised play in the garden and will keep them apart for a while

 

[Salt n Peppers mum]

Don't chance it! The nurse is WRONG, someone else is WRONG (Rabbits 2 weeks, not Guinea Pigs)

Not only that it is a big operation, he only had his op the other day, he will be getting quite giddy and scent marking etc, he could easily open his self up and cause damage.

At our rescue we wait 6 weeks before rehoming neutered boars.
They are house indoors on fleece bedding with hay balls/racks rather than hay on the floor to safe guard anything causing abcesses.

Infact the Guinea Pig Magazine had a recent page about this and all the experts agreed that 6 weeks was the safest time to wait after neutering.

 

[Connie]

It takes literally seconds for him to get a girl pregnant. There is no way you could physically seperate fast enough. other than the risk of pregnancy there is also the risk of him physically opening up his stitched again with the exersion! Please, for your piggies welfare, please dont put them together.

 

[Peegs]

everyone is getting the wrong end of the stick, i didnt explain myself very well

he is just MEETING the girls on the grass, not staying with them, he will be seperate from the girls but next to them so they can smell each other and get to know each other, I know what I am doing

thanks

 

[Connie]

Thankyou, but that is not what was suggested in the earlier posts. We dont mean to have a go. If you were given the wrong advice its not your fault. However meeting them is still risky for him as getting him "excited" can still over exert him and split his stitches. As long as he is not put with females without a divide for 6 weeks, you wont risk pregnancy.