Why do guinea pigs molt?

Mikitie ∙

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∙ 17y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

Guinea pigs do not molt. Molting is when an organism with an exoskeleton 'sheds' it's outer skeleton and grows a new one, to regenerate. Guinea pigs shed their hair. They just do it; you can't stop it.

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