guinea pig fighting after 1 had babies

Question
QUESTION: Hi I brought 2 female guinea pigs in january not noing one was pregnant!  The babies are now 4 days old happy and healthy lovely little things the propblem is ive tried twice to put her cage mate back but she keeps chattering her teeth at her and chasing her around so ive had to separate them!  Really dont no what to do please help!

ANSWER: divide the cage in two with wire mesh, mum and the babies on one side the former cage mate on the other, keep switching them over every one or two days. ordinarily there are other things that i'd recommend but as you have babies i think this is the best method. this way the piggies will be used to seeing each other smelling each other and after three weeks it should be fine to remove their partition. if after three weeks it still has not worked then message me again and i shall offer a more complicated, fool proof method as the babies will be older. also dont forget to remove the male babies at 3 to five weeks unless you want even more babies.

hope this helps

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QUESTION: Hi I tried dividing the cage and the new mum was fine with her former cage mate not being able to get to her babies but have tried putting them all back together again in a larger cage and she is still chattering her teeth and waving her bum about!  Please help as i really need to get this sorted if i can as one of the babies is a boy so needs separating soon and cant have 3 cages! Thankyou

Answer
there will e a degree of bum waggling and teeth chattering so dont be too peturbed,if it is not already make the partition out of wire mesh, every day keep swapping them over, also if you can make a part of it large enough for the babies to get through but not the adults then that will be useful. as before swap them ovr every day.

now for the trickier stuff, you need two people to do this, one person should take them all out of the cage and into a cardboard box together, then go for a drive with them, the bumpier the road the better. the fear actually helps them to bond. while this is going on someone else needs to clean out the cage treating everything with a diluted disinfectant, new bedding etc. if possible take the cage outside onto your lawn an build a pen around it so that they have a lot of lawn space in addition to the cage. then set them all down in it. there may be a little dominence play, but other than that they SHOULD be okay. once you're confident they will e okay bring the cage back inside.