Pregnant goooo :)

[babygoo]

So im pretty sure one of my goo's is pregnant much to my mothers disgust as she is scared of them! lol

anyway when i bought them the pet shop hadnt sexed them, although they didnt say this i worked it out for myself. (They had 2 tiny tanks with 4 goos each in, which was very cramped, and when i asked the difference they said nothing but when they tried putting them all in a cage people complained) So feeling sorry for the degus i bought two, i would have had more but my mum was with me and insisted only on 2 lol ( I did keep check on them and if they didnt go i would have driven down to get the rest anyway) but they all went quite quickly.

So when i took my goos home they wouldnt let me touch them at all, possibly something to do with the pet shop not having a clue and telling me iots fine to pick them up by their tails . So after a while i managed to catch and sex them, being my first goos i wasnt 100% sure but i thought i had a male and female.

Obviously i knew this was bound to happen eventually but i couldnt split them up as that would leave them on their own. I thought about neutering but given a large vets bill for my horse i couldnt afford it and besides that i dont know where there would be a vet around me that knows about goos.

Perfect i though, some babies will allow me to split them and have company aswell

Now Squeak is getting very fat and im sure i felt some babies in her belly the other day XD
Its very exciting and i cant wait, however im worried as i have read about many instance of deaths of baby and mum

So after all that basically im wondering is there anything i can do to help mum? Is there anything special she needs?

I think they will be coming soon as last night she looked quite uncomfortable climbing and was quite restless.

I hope it all goes well XD but any advice will be greatly appreciated

thanks

[babygoo]

thank you very much for your advice. Just wondering but you said take daddy out BEFORE the babies come when is the bes time to do this? I can see her nipples and she is VERY big now, i feel really sorry for her she looks like a dumpling and is struggeling to jump around and climb things like she normally does bless her.
Also what would you recommend as fatty treats??

thanks again x

[babygoo]

thank you again.
He will be comming out today as ive got to go out and do my horse so i cant watch them. I think they should be comming soon as when I got up this morning daddy came up to the dorr to meet me and she stayed in bed and didnt move. She seems very uncomfortable I was worried something might be wrong but I think if I had lots of little babies inside me I wouldnt want to get out of bed either! lol
But im keeping an eye on her just incase.
Thank you for the treat ideas shell be one happy goo as they hardly ever get treats at the moment and im not very imaginitive!! lol

Ill keep you up dated on whats happening x

[salfordunifern]

just gave my new mummy a walnut! she loved it haha x

[salfordunifern]

Yeah they had a quarter each of a plain walnut from the tesco organics range =] just what i had in when i read this before

[babygoo]

just wondering is my girl likely to give birth at night or during the day? Im getting quite worried as when i took bubbles (the daddy) out of the cage she was quite aggitated and she seems very stressed :L How will i know if something has gone wrong?

Im sure youll probably say shes fine but im such a worryer with everything especially when it comes to one of my animals!

Also i gave them a load of stuff to make a nest last night and they havnt bothered and now bubbles is gone all she does is sit in her little house, ive helped her out by filling the house with bits ripped up tissue and with her in there it gets quite warm so babies should be warm enough.

im really worried that something will go wrong :L

[babygoo]

thanks but im now even more concerned that maybe shes not pregnant :L
Last week she was very lethargic and looked very pregnant and uncomfortable as i have said in previous posts, now however she seems to have more energy again and is coming out of her house more.

It was last thursday (i think!!) that i noticed her nipples for the first time, although i wasnt actually looking! But they havnt yet built a nest.

Ive looked everywhere i could without disturbing them too much and i cant find anything to suggest she may have lost them

any advice? Or just sit and wait?

Shes still very fat and yesturday she bit me for the first time and was very paniky around me

very confused at the moment!!!

lol thanks

[malteser60]

Another place to get pregnancy advice would be degutopia as Chloe there breeds degus so she's got lots of experience. Wish I could help more with advice but I definitely have two girls so no surprises for me there.

[babygoo]

lol thanks ...
i swear if she doesnt have her babies soon i shall go mad!! lol
ive even got my brother and sister asking me if shes dropped them every 2 seconds! haha