Is this normal?
I must have new piggie mom syndrome or something becuase everything worries me. But tonight my family was over visiting and I was downstairs all day. I came upstairs to my room that is where I have my girls cage and Beatrice is chasing Misha around the cage trying to mount her. I checked both this site and Guinea Pig Cages and I'm 97% positive they are girls. Is this is a dominace thing? I've had them both for a few weeks now. Is this normal. Again I am sorry if this is a dumb question.
Haha Ginger did this as well during the first month in my place. I was worried sick because it lasted for more than a week!
I guess she was just trying to establish that she is the queen of the place. Now that the status has been established, she doesn't do it anymore.
I guess she was just trying to establish that she is the queen of the place. Now that the status has been established, she doesn't do it anymore.
The girls here go through the same thing during their "time" then the boars know too and their cages get a bit riled too. Then everyone calme back down till the next one.
Mocha would do this to Cinnabun (her cagemate) every time she'd go into heat and sometimes just to establish dominance. As long as there are no signs of ovarian cysts or serious hormonal problems (hair loss particularly at the sides, crusty nipples, pretty constant mounting long after a hierarchy is established), it sounds pretty normal.
I'm a newbie too, and I freak out to an embarrassing extent on a daily basis, so not to worry! My girls do not do this, but they were both pregnant when they were rescued, and one still is. So they're a little too fat to hoist themselves around :) But what I can say is that I was very worried that I might have mis-sexed them too, but once Jersey's litter came along, I was able to look and successfully sex them within an hour of their birth. They are now 4 weeks along, and the difference is very, very obvious (and getting a penis, if there is one, to extrude is very easy). So if they're looking like girls, I'd say they're girls!