Roxy, our guinea pig, gave birth this morning to two lovely babies, a boy and a girl.  The boy is the mirror image of his dad (solid brown) and the girl is brown and white, and both have whorls like their mum. Roxy is tired but is still eating ( it takes alot to stop a guinea pig eating) and the babies have had some apple and hay already. We are over the moon about how well the breeding turned out. I was planing this litter for two months before we put the parents together. Roxy is a Abbisissian x Angora and the father, Pan, is a purebred longhaired aguti Cornet.   :D
                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                            Kate                          

Congratulations Kate, Roxy and Pan. :) Have you named the piglets yet?

No, not yet. But we are thinking very seriously.

Awwwwwwwwwwww - I lurv baby GP's :)

Fran

It always amazes me, how they can walk / eat / drink on the day they're born. When you compare them to pups & kittens it's quite amazing. Puppies & kittens aren't very well equipped for the world when they 1st enter it are they?
congrats on your new arrivals  :)

Congratts :) they are soooo cute....:)

My sister bred them but sadly she lost her female on the last litter. She had six babies and only one lived, she raised it and he's doing great. Don't breed them after 8 months because their pelvis fuses together and would need a c-section, but you probably already no that....Congrats :) Are you keeping them?

Congratulations on your babies!!! :)

I love guinea pigs and have had them on and off over the years.....we are down to the one at the moment.

I love Abbyssinian crosses - they are gorgeous - my first pig was a smooth cross abby and had the best personality i have ever known!

Have fun with them :)

Lindsay

Thanks and I am sorry for your sister, it's terrible when you lose the mum and most of the babies. Jetty, one of our other girls, is from Roxy's first litter, and Jetty is due to give birth in the next week or two, as we had to breed her before 8 months. The father is the same male. Jetty's father is dead now, he was the most stunning guinea pig I have ever seen both in appearance and character, he had a solid coal black coat. He died about a 14 months ago from cancer. His name was Alexander the Great (my sister named him). We might be keeping one.

Oooh, I love guineapigs too, and the babies are sooo cute, up and about immediately! I have 2 smooth ones, mother and daughter. Mum is a ginger satin, and daughter is (or rather was) black and ginger, marked like a saddleback pig. Unfortunately she has ovarian trouble, and has lost most of her hair, and is starting to get skinny, so is almost ready to move on. :( I wonder what sort of Rainbow Bridge there is for piggies? It'll have to be one with no dogs.

Never had a guineapig so I don't know to much about them.  But they sound sweet.
I had an albanion Hamster called herman (not sure if he was male or not).  He lived for three years,  he came with me when we upgraded his house from a bungalow to a two up two down.  Pet shop thought he made a excellent choice £40,  then back in August I had the phone call Id been dreading mum. Saying he had slipped away in the old hamster shelter in his sleep (we had to adapt his old bungalow as he found the stairs a big problem,  they dont do stanner chair lifts for hamsters so we had to improvise with what we had).  
I still miss him he came with me to work on a couple of occasions and had loads of fun in his dragster screaming around the Jaguars in the showroom.
In his world he was nigel mansell.

i love guinea pigs my friend rachel (she died in 2001) had 6 altogether ginger whiskey and their babies they were so cute sadly they all died of a mysterious illness after she introduced a new guinea pig she never found out what it was...
they are so cute and friendly
i had a hamster nibbles he lived up to his name he was really nasty i had him for 2 years

Herman,  used to come when called and never ever bit me or the vet.  Loved him to bits.  In the mornings he used to have a bowl of cornflakes with me for breakie.  On hot summer days he used to come out for picnics.  He was real companion.  Bearing in mind I was only 27 years old at the time.