My pet guinea pig, Buddy ze female one, gave birth to three premature babies last night; gave birth to three extremely premature babies. They're not alive, they haven't got any hair, and it's sickening and depressing. Just buried them in the backyard, washed my hands, put away the shovel...
The male started chasing her around while she hid under a blanket squeaking so I spent the entire night laying partly on a layer of guinea pig pellet poop and a pile of hay, protecting a lump under a blanket with my arms and making growling sounds whenever the male, Pup, would try to get under the blanket. It kind of worked. Eventually her younger son clambered in, who didn't seem to try anything besides snuggle (t'was colder than usual), but it drove Buddy out to hide in the closet. Which was fine by me: I mostly closed the doors, let Buddy hide and eat at the hay in there. Cleaned out the old cage, lured the males into the cage with munches, shut the door, let bud' out, bury barely animal creatures. Lots of effort.
Guess it'd be best to separate them permanently...