Child care for guinea pigs may be afraid that it is a full and exciting experience. This is normal! All you need the right information and the provision is to make your experience as successful as possible.
Preparation for childbirth
This is a good moment to read about what to expect during labor and to make sure you go to all the necessary supplies ready and set aside. In the weeks before the birth, you see the mother in a hurryIncrease in size as each child is bringing a few inches high. Now is a good idea, moving into the cage after the birth and to avoid handling as much as possible because it is easy to accidentally trigger a miscarriage. The average pregnancy lasts 65 to 70 days before 60 days with children born prematurely.
Before birth, measures to cage the birth of Baby Proof. baby guinea pigs are small enough to slip easily across networks by an average of C & CCage (gap of about 1.5in by 1.5 inches), this can be very dangerous for children because they are small and helpless. The easiest way for a child-resistant C & C cage, cage in the interior walls of cardboard with at least one foot from the floor to the top line of the cage. If you have a safer option, double layer mesh wall of the cage and place your cardboard in half. You have to leave the cage set up as long as the children grow old enough to notsecretly or hang between the bars remain. This can last from four to six months.
Birth
It is not for the birth takes place in the middle of the night, rarely. Many people wake up and see the puppies mother caring for her new litter. However, if you wake up and attend the birth - The following is a description of what you should expect. It begins with the birth pangs of each head pappy emerging after the first. They are, Note that each child is enclosed in a membrane. His mother to reach down and pull the membrane with the teeth, this allows the liquid to appear in the bag and breathe for the baby. When the mother is not able to tear open the bag for whatever reason, you want to attend and do so - that is not proof that a child was born dead.
Carefully break the membrane of the nose of the child and a little 'give mouth to mouth "soft - ieBlow a few breaths into the baby's mouth, while the hind legs moving slightly back and forth. Your goal is, the child breathes on his own to achieve. Hold the baby gently arched in your hands from the heat and gently clean with a cloth. Screech is a sign that the child can come across quite well. Do you have a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel, put away the children do not need special care to keep warm. After a few hours you should expect that all healthy infants seen trying to get up. TestReturn of the child in the cage.
After the birth is over, do not be surprised to see her mother to eat after birth - this is normal. Try not to disturb the children no longer necessary. For very young children close together and need of the mother for warmth.
Sure of himself for both mothers and babies immediately after birth and then go on to weigh daily to see if some children do not grow as much as others.
PossibleIssues
Rejected baby - Sometimes a mother rejected the children with health problems such as blindness. Other times, the cure is no obvious reason why the mother decided not to one or more of their children. In this case, you have children in a separate cage and care for them to move.
Older children prevented the child feeding - If you see some children do not give a winning weight may needto special time with her mother. Therefore, daily weighing of children is a good idea. older brothers are often more pork so much milk as possible for themselves.
No more waste - After each feeding, the mother of cleaning of the genitals of her baby. This causes wasting their bodies in the past. In the first weeks of this is absolutely necessary because it does not happen for infants and children without causing waste. If you notice the children are no longer wastetry to simulate this by carefully even by washing their genitals with a cloth.
The mother has been weakened - Sometimes mothers have difficulty producing enough milk for all its children. In this case, the mother is actually chewed nipples can get, and this can lead to permanent damage. If this is the case, it is necessary to separate and feed the baby from her mother's hand.
Food and weaning
Unlike otherYoung animals, guinea pigs are born with teeth and are capable of solid food. This is a skill that will be taught by the mother. Be sure to keep lots of healthy fruits and leafy vegetables on hand, so the mother has enough to share their needs and support them. You must increase your daily food intake for three times a day - still need cleaning out vegetation is consumed.
Children can be sold within three or four weeks. If possible, remove the males from the cagethree weeks, as this is the point, can be related to accidental pregnancies, and this happens. Feel free to females with the mother for an indefinite period or until he ceases to leave their milk.
