pregnant guinea pig loosing hair

Question
My guinea pig is about due to have her babies and I noticed she is loosing alot of hair, is this normal? she has been laying around and drinking and sleeping alot, other than that she seems fine

Answer
Hello Mary!
Losing fur could be normal, everything else is normal though. I do not know what the hair loss looks like, so I will give you a link to a great website just for safety (http://www.guinealynx.info/hairloss.html). Hopefully it is just barbering (Bordem, hair cutting) or this pregnancy related one:

Pregnancy and Lactation: When associated with pregnancy and lactation or an ovarian cyst, these will generally be bilaterally symmetric. Intensively bred sows especially in the last trimester may experience thinning and loss of hair. Repeated breeding will result in increasing loss of hair during pregnancy and lactation. It is "thought to be due to reduced anabolism of maternal skin associated with the rapid increase in fetal growth. Nutritional and genetic factors are also involved and affect degree of alopecia." (VetPath)