Guinea pig permaculture

I've been experimenting with guinea pigs as a backyard farm animal the last year or so. It's finally taking off but the weather has been damp and many of them are getting what looks like ringworm.

It wasn't really a problem last year. I never had this problem with rabbits.

  1. 9 months ago
    Anonymous

    Would chickens eat guinea pigs?

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      I've seen three chickens kill a squirrel, so...

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        But I've seen five squirrels rape two chickens

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're gonna eat these? ;-;

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Its why they exist

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        you could at least use a non-carnivorous animal for your reaction image.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do you make anything with the skins? It'd be pretty cool to have a bunch of guinea pig skins.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/kK41CNu.jpg

      I've been experimenting with guinea pigs as a backyard farm animal the last year or so. It's finally taking off but the weather has been damp and many of them are getting what looks like ringworm.

      It wasn't really a problem last year. I never had this problem with rabbits.

      Kys abuser. Guinea pigs are eating your dead grandmother in hell

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        its livestock

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man I could never raise such cute animals for food. Good luck with the ringworm anon.

    • 9 months ago
      Anonymous

      Right? I could even see doing it if they're just like a basal all brown or all white, no fancy hair styles or anything. These have too much character to them, maybe it's just because I had one as a kid.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why Gunie pigs? Why not rabbits?
    Bigger, tastier meats, more of a market

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They can't dig or get into my raised garden beds. They meep around like a little biological roomba controlling the weeds.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can't you put them in a shed with better drainage off of the floor and overhanging roof?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The ones in a shed got it worse. I think the ringworm was in the hay on the floor. I've been cleaning it out and bleaching the dirt to see if the helps.

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Isn't there a treatment for this?
    Otherwise I would guess give them a dry place or whatever. Maybe a place with sand, I don't really know much about guinea pigs.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Isn't there a treatment for this?
      I've been using athlete's foot spray and moved then to a dry cage to heal.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Good luck to them.
        Are you raising them for meat?
        Interested in this. What do you feed them, enclosure, stuff like that?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I've been feeding then weeds from my yard, alfalfa, drop fruit I find around the neighborhood, and rabbit pellets.

          I wanted then for meat. Breeding larger ones is kinda tricky after a few generations I seem to be getting larger litters of smaller guinea pigs. Getting ones that are 500 grams just grazing on the yard seems to be no problem. Similar to quail except they can't fly away.

          I might just end up breeding them as feeders to pay for other animal feed.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            You may want to try group selection instead of individual selection.
            But I guess such things take years anyway.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            It might be okay since you're supplementing their diet with other foods but don't rely on rabbit pellets. Guinea pigs need a lot vitamin C, rabbits don't so their food doesn't have that much of it.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            It sucks that guinea pigs from pet stores weigh so little, the Cuy Peruano bred for meat in Peru weigh like 3 kg

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Does anyone in the US even have those?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nah, all the guinea pigs in the US are bred for pet ownership and not for size/meat production like they are in south america. You could probably breed a american cuy peruviano by selectively breeding for larger size and increased feed processing ability

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                There was that video of Peruvians roasting big cuy in New York but those could have been imported.

      • 9 months ago
        Anonymous

        there is oral medication, and it might be worth giving them a sulfer bath. Good thing they're outside.

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