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The boys need to be away from any girls and Mom at 3 weeks. After this time, it's possible for them to impregnate their mother and sisters.
 
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If they are males, yes.
 

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Make sure this person is not a breeder.
 
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I already answered that gold-guinea. Read the previous posts.
 
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The babies need to accurately sexed before they are 3 weeks old. After that if there is a male with the females, he could get them pregnant.
 
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Are these pigs that the person needs to rehome because she can't keep them, or did she breed them?

As far as keeping them longer, there is no need to. Baby guinea pigs don't need their mother's milk like kittens or puppies. They are fine within a day or two on water, hay, pellets, and veggies just like Mom would be. Please make sure that the person you're getting these guinea pigs from understands that a baby boar can be sexually mature at 3 weeks old, and if his mother or sisters goes into heat, he will mount them and get them pregnant. This would almost certainly kill the baby sows, and getting pregnant again so close together could very well injure or kill the mother pig.
 
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Yeah, right. Pet shops are in it for the profit, not for the animals. You say the pet shop "is very good" but yet they are keeping boys with their mother for five weeks? You contradicted yourself there. Read https://cavyspirit.com/petstores.htm.


Don't buy ANYTHING in stores that SELL ANIMALS​
 
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What happened to trying to adopt? I'm very sorry I stood up for you in your other thread about pet shops, if you are truly going to be buying some guinea pigs.
 
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The pigs had to get there somehow. To the petshop or not. How on earth do you think they got there otherwise? They're certainly not native to Australia.
Transporting Pigs is safe if you do it correctly. I think that you're simply too lazy to do the right thing and adopt.
 

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If they don't separate them until 5 weeks, they are sell pregnant sows then. Mom is backbred and any girl babies are bred. How is that treating them well?
 
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