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Phantom Pregnancy!?

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Question
I have 11 guinea pigs (6 males and 5 females). 2 of them have been pregnant before and since then i have kept the males and females apart in separate cages. The 2 that have been pregnant before look as though they're pregnant again. They are getting a little bit fatter and if you squeeze their teats milk comes out. I haven't let them go with any males though. What could be wrong. Are they pregnant???

Thanks, Maddy

Answer
Maddy,
Are you 100% that your females have had no contact with males, it can happen, if she had any sons in her last litter, he could have got her pregnant!

Otherwise I don't know, I have never seen a phantom pregnancy!? so i could be!!

Megan
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Normally its a phantom birth, the female starts having contractions as though she is having babies, not producing milk and getting larger!