It is necessary to choose a guinea pig long and captiously. And business here even not that she owes you will be pleasant and to be healthy physically. As life expectancy of these small animals is not really big, it is the best of all to buy young pigs that joy of communication with them could last much longer. But how to define how many weeks, months or even years the guinea pig until lived how you glanced in pet-shop?
It is required to you
- scales, attentiveness and sharp-sighted eye
Instruction
1. The simplest is to ask the seller or the manufacturer. Certainly, in this case it is possible to hope only for honesty of the person and to believe in what he does not try to palm off you instead of the very young animal aged veteran. If the seller cannot answer your question or begins to shirk – buy an animal in other place better. It is better to steer clear of swindlers or manufacturers who not really precisely represent age of the animals.
2. One of the most exact indicators of age of a guinea pig is her weight. Do not hesitate to bring with yourself scales or to ask the seller to weigh at you a mumps on store scales. The fact is that from age of 3-4 weeks (namely from this point these animals begin to go on sale) a guinea pig, kind of much she did not eat, cannot weigh more than 400-500 gr. Therefore if the seller assures you that the animal is only four weeks old from a sort, and the morskushechka extended on kilogram – you are deceived. Full puberty at pigs comes at the age of 15 months, the maximum weight of females 700-1000 gr., males at this time – 1000-1800gr.
3. There is also it that with age the guinea pig begins to lose flesh. There is it already closer by an old age when exchange processes go more slowly and the animal begins to use less forage, refusing large pieces. The unfair seller can give you such old man for a young animal. For this reason besides weight it is necessary to pay attention to secondary signs of youth. Young pigs have wool more dense, has a characteristic color, does not drop out and does not grow dull. In sea pigs pensioners there can be problems with skin and claws on back pads. Animals process usually front pads, and here cannot just reach back. If to hold an animal of the house, it needs to process claws special scissors, but in shop, certainly, to be engaged in it there is nobody therefore a back claws at an adult individual look not really esthetically.