Get from a breeder if you can, or a good pet shop. If you do buy females make sure you agree with the seller that if they have babies a few weeks after you take them home, they will have them back – unless you want to keep them – we bought two and now have four.
Baby pigs are just like a big hamster, they aren’t furless or blind, we thought someone was playing a trick on us when we lifted the house and there were more than there was earlier in the day!
Look for bright eyes and check behind their ears for soreness as they can get ring worm.
Veg is about 20% of their diet, rest is hay and nuggets – get the all in one as there’s less waste than the seed/flake mix. When we go out for walks we always pick them some fresh grass – they love it. We also give our the occasional blueberry – they’re climbing our their cage for those! Mini sweetcorn, beans, pepper, kale, chard etc.
Latest thing this week we found they love is water melon.
We have four pigs, a Shetie, Abasynian and 2 hybrids – we were lucky as the pure breeds were what was at the breeder at that time. Shorter haired ones are easy to look after, longer haired ones will need to be cleaned regularly – clinkers aren’t nice!
They will get very comfortable when they’re being held, make sure you have a towel on your lap as they will piddle on you.
If you’re keeping them inside you will need to get their claws clipped, easy enough to do yourself.
Google Guinea Pig memes, they will explain a lot… 🙂