Discharge from a Sow - Is this a mucus plug?
My sow Twinkie is 10 weeks old. She is in heat I'm pretty sure. It may be her first heat cycle but I am not certain.
Tonight when I picked her up, this really gross thing came out of her vaginal area onto my hand. It is 1 1/4 inches long and looks like a wrinkly used condom (for lack of a better way to describe it).
I took a picture. I should learn how to post pictures here on GL, but here is a link to my thread on guineapigcages with the picture:
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/abo ... post346560
I looked around GL and found a couple people this has happened to, but couldn't find where anyone discovered for sure what it is. I was wondering if anyone knows for certain if this is a mucus plug? I'm pretty sure it is.
Twinkie is absolutely female and has never been near a male guinea pig - there is absolutely no chance she is pregnant.
There was a tiny bit of blood and there has been no more. I will keep checking her to make sure there is no more blood. She seems perfectly fine.
Tonight when I picked her up, this really gross thing came out of her vaginal area onto my hand. It is 1 1/4 inches long and looks like a wrinkly used condom (for lack of a better way to describe it).
I took a picture. I should learn how to post pictures here on GL, but here is a link to my thread on guineapigcages with the picture:
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/abo ... post346560
I looked around GL and found a couple people this has happened to, but couldn't find where anyone discovered for sure what it is. I was wondering if anyone knows for certain if this is a mucus plug? I'm pretty sure it is.
Twinkie is absolutely female and has never been near a male guinea pig - there is absolutely no chance she is pregnant.
There was a tiny bit of blood and there has been no more. I will keep checking her to make sure there is no more blood. She seems perfectly fine.
I'm pretty positive it's mucus because I touched it. But it's not gooey and doesn't fall apart.
I have not noticed any crying when she pees or poos but I will be watching her closely.
There is a little more blood now around her vaginal area. Not a lot. I know for positive that the thing in that picture came out of her vagina, not anywhere else.
I have not noticed any crying when she pees or poos but I will be watching her closely.
There is a little more blood now around her vaginal area. Not a lot. I know for positive that the thing in that picture came out of her vagina, not anywhere else.
From what I understand, their normal cycles do not involve blood in any way. I strongly would suspect something else is going on. Any chance she was pregnant and this is somehow related to an incomplete placenta?
I saved a long string of mucus-encrusted stones from Cookie at one point. By the next morning, the mucus had disappeared. I wonder if that will happen to you, as well.
I saved a long string of mucus-encrusted stones from Cookie at one point. By the next morning, the mucus had disappeared. I wonder if that will happen to you, as well.
I swear to God that came out of my poor piggie. Actually she is a foster piggie.
If you look at pictures that whittibo took - it looks pretty much exactly like what came out of that sow.
https://www.guinealynx.info/forums/viewt ... mucus+plug
If you think about it - what is a mucus plug but a condom? Isn't it meant to stop a male from being able to deposit sperm? The rounded part could be the part that's at the opening and the rest of it is inside the sow - and it blocks any sperm from being able to enter. If most mucus plugs from sows dissolve - how do we know exactly what they look like if they were intact? Perhaps I have an intact mucus plug here.
The part that worries me is the continuing bloody mucus coming out. It's not much - just slight spotting - but it concerns me.
She seems to have a good appetite. I am going to put her in a separate cage for a bit tonight to make sure she is pooping and drinking (I know she's peeing). I will separate her again in the morning to check on how she is doing. I don't want to stress her out too much by separating.
If you look at pictures that whittibo took - it looks pretty much exactly like what came out of that sow.
https://www.guinealynx.info/forums/viewt ... mucus+plug
If you think about it - what is a mucus plug but a condom? Isn't it meant to stop a male from being able to deposit sperm? The rounded part could be the part that's at the opening and the rest of it is inside the sow - and it blocks any sperm from being able to enter. If most mucus plugs from sows dissolve - how do we know exactly what they look like if they were intact? Perhaps I have an intact mucus plug here.
The part that worries me is the continuing bloody mucus coming out. It's not much - just slight spotting - but it concerns me.
She seems to have a good appetite. I am going to put her in a separate cage for a bit tonight to make sure she is pooping and drinking (I know she's peeing). I will separate her again in the morning to check on how she is doing. I don't want to stress her out too much by separating.
- Mum
- I GAVE, dammit!
This is absolutely not right - you should never see blood coming from a sow.continuing bloody mucus coming out. It's not much - just slight spotting - but it concerns me.
I'd suspect possible pyometra. You might want to get her properly checked out by a vet tomorrow. (Although I would think this would be very unusual in a 10-week old sow).
- mmeadow
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Over the years on GL and previous boards, I've seen a few posts of this sort, followed by vet checkups with no problems found. (This happened to me--When our first pig was 3-4 months old, she spotted a little blood. Off to the vet's, and she was fine.) It would be interesting to try to understand this as possible little-understood information about sows' first heats.
It's still the right thing to check with a vet, of course.
It's still the right thing to check with a vet, of course.