If you want to raise Guinea Pigs we need to be mature and healthy. If you want to experiment with colors and varieties then know something about your background and where they originate, is of great help.
Long ago they were the days of crowded cages and cramped conditions. If a healthy litters to provide basic care of the good. Contrary to popular belief, they only play if they are well-fed, healthy and clean. Sick animals don't want to have anything to do with the opposite sex.
VARIETIES
They originate in South America. They have been selectively bred in captivity and now appear in a variety of colors, as well as having three different coat types; smooth hair or the English, the rough hair or Abyssinian and long-haired Peruvian.
The convenient size and weight of Guinea pigs with their docile, gentle nature, means that remain popular as pets for children. It is very rare that a Guinea pig bite and while smaller, more agile rodents such as the gerbil may be difficult to handle, the Guinea pig can competently lift even by small children.
ACQUIRE A CAVIE
Young people born usually in small offspring, fully lined, able to move around and with their eyes open. In two or three days, they begin to eat solid foods, such as the fine oatmeal.
They are mature enough to be adopted in its new home at the age of four to five weeks and are gregarious animals, it is better to keep more than one; a wild boar with several females of breeding, otherwise two planting.
FOOD
These are entirely herbivorous animals thrive on a diet of vegetables, grass, hay and puree with some bran cereal. The mixture can be whole-grain bread with milk, or crushed oats and bran anti-aliasing to a strong coherence with hot water or milk. Vitamin c and green food is essential. It must provide drinking water in a dropper bottle guinea pigs. You will sometimes see drink craving, while at other times seem to take all the water they need through grazing.
ACCOMMODATION
The most suitable accommodation for guinea pigs is a good rabbit Hutch. Two or three guinea pigs require a measurement a minimum120 x 60 x 50 cm (48 x 24 x 20). You will have to move in a warm outhouse for greater protection in severe weather and lots of straw for bedding.
EXERCISE
An internal table and an Ark to outdoor exercise should provide. It does not keep guinea pigs in wiremesh this surface can cause mouth and sore hocks.
GENERAL CARE
The skin can be maintained with a brush or a non-zero comb. Bride and groom the way the hair grows and not try to make skin in a gentle lie rosettes Abyssinian. The long-haired Peruvian Guinea pig is clearly the more difficult variety kept as a pet, but if it continues with a partner of the same race, each will another service to gnaw out very long hair.
However, it should be noted that the excessive extraction of hair is an anomaly among Guinea pigs, thought possibly caused by there are inadequate in their diet.
A sharp wooden block allow him to cut his own front teeth that grow continuously.
To load one, bear your weight with both hands, one around the shoulders and one around the pelvis.
Avoid the manipulation of the abdomen of sows during his day 63 long pregnancy for fear of harm to young people in development.
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