[Gpdd] Behavior: Boy & Girl Piggys

[Dawnda Stricklen]

Hi Shelly

Girls do go through cycles and they are moody during
the week before they come in heat. It's kind of like
our PMS. My Tasha was very moody the week before. She
would then love everyone when she came in heat. She
started having hormone problems and ovarian cysts. She
was very testy then, but the cysts are painful
sometimes.

I hear that boys do calm down better. Peter Gurney
says so too. He only has males as free range pigs.
My boys are 1 year old and they are very nippy. I
don't know what age they grow out of that. Some refer
to them as in their teen age years. My boys would
probably bite the blood out if I didn't blow in their
face when they start biting. My boys are very skittish
like their mother. I don't think mine will every
settle down. They almost always have the personality
of the mother.
They are in the same room as the females and they are
smelly. The one male I had years ago was not smelly
though. 

I have always liked girls because of cleaning the
penis and anal pouch on boys. It is a nasty, smelly
job and I have 3 boys now.

I would never have a pig spayed or neutered unless you
wanted male and female housed together. Surgery is
painful and very risky in guinea pigs. I could lay
money that most vets have never done this surgery
either. Most people do not take their pigs to the vet.
At least where I live they do not. Unfortunately, it
is probably the same everywhere. Therefore, the vets
do not get the experience with surgeries on guinea
pigs.
My exotic vet is in a bigger city two hours away and
he has never done this surgery.

Dawnda

http://www.embark.to/guineapighaven

http://www.pigs9.blinkz.com


		
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