From what I remember....
My mother called me in a panic one day because the gpig she brought home for my sister a couple weeks before had two babies. From what research I did that I remember, I believe gpig babies can eat the pellets within a dayof their birth, but they still have their mothers milk (plus veggies, pellets, and hay, that you'd normally feed) until they are 3 to 4 weeks old. At which point I believe the males become sexually mature at 4 or 5 weeks and you want to separate him from mom and sisters because he will impregnate them. If I remember right....Did you know that a female gpig can become pregnant again just an hour or so after giving birth?
Anyway, I'd call a vet and ask what milk you should be feeding and where to get it. At one week your piggy should be still getting mothers milk along with pellets. Besides the pellets also be sure to feed fresh veggies and Timothy Hay.
Please read info from this site on caring for young cavies(gpigs):
http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull/Guin...ing.html#Young
and here's the main page of that site that will direct you to great info on gpigs:
http://www.aracnet.com/~seagull/Guineas/
Hope that helps!! Good Luck!!
PS: I saw the pic. What a cutie you have!! Absolutely adorable! Question...I can't really tell from the pic, but is that iceberg lettuce or cabbage? If it's iceberg, I'd reccomend romaine lettuce over iceberg. Iceberg lettuce is almost all water and has no nutritional value whatsoever. I used to feed my grandmother's piggy: romaine lettuce, endive, bokchoy(sp?), fresh spinach, carrots, apples, and oranges. I believe on the site I listed there is a link to good and bad veggies. I know stay away form snap beans...I think I read it's poisonious to gpigs. Hope that helps!
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