How to determine the sex of guinea pig?

You came to the market or to the store to buy a guinea pig . In advance you have decided on the sex of the animal. Without relying on your knowledge of guinea pig anatomy, you ask the seller to pick you up, for example, a girl. The seller offers a cute little girl, whom you immediately call Anabella and take home. And after a while, when the guinea pig has grown up, you are surprised to notice that they bought not a girl Anabella, but a boy Walter!

Your indignation has no limit: how could a salesman deceive you and sell a boy instead of a girl! However, if you understand, the seller's fault in this error, perhaps, is not. It is not difficult to establish the sex of an adult guinea pig. But to determine the sex of her cub is very difficult. Let's find out together how to know the sex of guinea pig.

Determination of guinea pig sex

When determining the sex of a small guinea pig, remember that you should not cause any harm to the animal. All your movements should be very careful.

Take the baby in the left hand and turn the belly up. Your right hand lies on the bottom of the animal's calf. In this case, your thumb should be above the genital organ of the animal. Slightly press this finger on the tummy, and then press a little hard. And, if you have a boy in your hand, you can feel his penis under your thumb and then see it.

If you took a girl in your hand, when you press it, you will open an oblong hole resembling the letter Y, stretched towards the tail. This method is used by breeders to accurately determine the sex of guinea pig.

If you need to install the sex of an adult guinea pig, it's easier to do, and the size of the animal allows you to inspect the two together.

There is another option, how to distinguish the sex of guinea pigs. Turn the animal upside down and estimate the distance between its urethra and the anus. It is believed that this distance will be much greater for a male. However, this method can not with 100% guarantee to answer the question: is the boy in front of you whether the girl, since the size of the animal is very small.

Some advise on the presence of nipples to determine the sex of guinea pig, but this is an incorrect method, as both the male and female have almost equally prominent nipples. So by this method you can not decide who is before you: a girl or a boy.