I was wondering if anyone on here has Guinea Pigs I have 5 and I love them to pieces they are wonderful animals.
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We have 2. They are about 6 months old now. Moonlight and Meteorite. Both girls.

I've had them off and on since I was a kid. Weet weet weet. When my granddaughter was little, my husband I bought two white fluffy females, Leah and Rachel. One day we came home from picking up my granddaughter, and she said "Grammy, Leah had babies!"

I said, "No she didn't, they're both girls." But I went and looked, and you guessed it. Three pairs of pink beady little eyes looking out at me. Is anything cuter than a baby guinea pig??

Rachel turned out to be Richard. I said to my husband, "What kind of farmer are YOU??" He said, "I farmed cows, not guinea pigs." Oh well.

My Guinea pigs are all girls as well Cleopatra,Lavender,Esther, Mary, and Charlie. They are so precious to me. Everytime I open the fridge I hear wheek wheek wheek and they are such loving animals.
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These are our first guinea pigs.

But about 4-5 years ago, we got our first hamster. A young male, maybe 2 months old, the store said. Gave him to us for free, said he was the last of a mom & babies that someone dumped on their doorstep, they found the container with mom and a whole load of babies on the step in front of the door when they came to open up one morning. He was separated, all alone, in a small tank in the back of the store. Since they didn't pay for him, they couldn't sell him, so they gave him to us for free. We did, of course, buy some supplies there.

Twelve days later, I notice He has suddenly gotten very large and fat. I search the internet. We keep trying to get a good look at his nethers through the side of the cage, because suddenly he doesn't want to be held and bites. Then I see it, both on internet and hamster. Only female hamsters have nipples. Oh no....

Sure enough two mornings later, "he" gave birth. Day 14 of our owning "him".

Gestation period is 14-16 days. I'll bet that store saw some "inappropriate" behavior and figured out they had "him" in the wrong group cage. And passed "him" off to us knowing full well "he" was likely pregnant. We haven't ever bought anything from them again, not even supplies, in protest.

But the kids were thrilled that instead of one young male hamster we ended up with four.

If the store made a mistake with these guinea pigs, we'd know by now, right? At six months old?

Princess76, do you have all five in one cage, or have you had to separate any of them?

My daughter is already trying to get us to get more, despite us having a large number of varied pets. But, the two guineas are the same age. The two degus are the same age as each other. The hedgehog's lifespan will fall somewhere in the same range. The two cats are the same age as each other. And the parakeets are all within about a year and a half of each other. So we are likely to lose each kind of animal completely at the same time. So I'm thinking ahead to maybe staggering additions so that we have a continuum, not periods of total loss. (overprotective mom, I know.)

So, some things I read say it's difficult to keep several together, and other things say it works, and in fact it's better because they are social animals. So, I figure real people are better sources of information.

I have 4 in one cage its double sided and very big I did have a problem at one time with some of them getting along but they worked it out. 2 of the guinea pigs I have come from the same mom so thet are sisters so they get a little annoyed with one another from time to time. How are you guinea pigs doing?
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Our piggies are good. Can't believe they've gotten so big. Ours are cousins, both girls, but they've been together since they were about a month old, when we got them from the local pet store. Came with pedigrees, so if they're true, they share a grandparent or two.

We made them a C&C type cage, but instead of the second "C" we used huge underbed storage tubs as the liner, cut one end off each and joined them together. So our cage is 20" wide and 5 feet long, with an upper deck that is 15" by 20" with one of those barn-steps hut to get up there, so they have the hut, & the area under the deck to sleep/hide in, then all the open area and the top deck with various tunnels, stones, toys that we vary to play with. They seem happy. They run piggy races round and round, they popcorn, they come up to the edge wheeking at us whenever someone gets near, mostly begging for salad, of course!

We kept both guinea pigs and hamsters years (decades) ago when we lived where we couldn't have "free roaming" pets. Abyssinians & Peruvians (GPs). We only had females to avoid fights & reproduction.

When we bought our first money pit, we got a cat for a time (until my childhood allergy re-emerged), who would sit on top of their cage and glare at them upside-down. No worries - peace and security were maintained.

We've since moved up to bow-wows - no litter to deal with daily.

We had the world's most developed (as in body-building) hamster, but that's another story....

We also have 2 degus, two cats, one dog, 15 parakeets in a gigantic cage, and a hedgehog. We are nuts. But it's fun.