They ate part of the hay bag.
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That exact thing happened to us a few months ago. I'd say my piggie ate about 2-quarter size pieces of the plastic bag and I was pretty worried. I gave her extra veggies right away and made sure she had a lot of hay & fresh water, and everything was fine. She seemed to have no ill-effect, and I keep the bag much farther away now inside a cardboard box.
But that was just my experience. Someone else may have some more qualified advice for you. Hope it works out ok.
But that was just my experience. Someone else may have some more qualified advice for you. Hope it works out ok.
I had a bag of pellets leaning against the grids and my fatty-girl, Chihiro, had chewed a nice little hole and was happily munching away on them. No ill effects and this was a couple of weeks ago.
- Barbara Osborn
- Supporter from '05 - '12
Once when staying with my daughter, we folded up the Coleman camping mattress for the day. That night we couldn't figure out why it would not inflate.
The mattress had been put too close to the GP cage and Randy had chewed a hole in the plastic camping mattress. No harm done to the pig, just our backs ached in the morning from being on a hard floor.
Randy eats coroplast, no harm done.
The mattress had been put too close to the GP cage and Randy had chewed a hole in the plastic camping mattress. No harm done to the pig, just our backs ached in the morning from being on a hard floor.
Randy eats coroplast, no harm done.
Same thing here. May is a fiend for any type of plastic and we've had a few incidents even though I try to be really careful. She's consumed a few pieces of a grocery bag, coroplast, and part of a food dish. She ended up being fine. Crazy pigs.
I remember reading that someone had given their pig mineral oil after a similar incident. I can't find it now, but maybe someone that's more experienced will chime in.
I remember reading that someone had given their pig mineral oil after a similar incident. I can't find it now, but maybe someone that's more experienced will chime in.
Meggie, One of my pigs ate a LARGE section of his hay bag after I mistakenly set it on top of his cage not realizing he would stand on his hind legs and nibble at plastic when there was plenty of fresh hay available. There was at least 12 sq in missing from the bag. I of course freaked out, upped his hay and veggies, and also gave him some mineral oil to help grease things up.
Everything turned out fine, continued eating, drinking, pooping normally, the odd thing was I never saw any of the bag come back out... This has now been over a year ago and he continues to be a happy healthy senior pig. I've got to assume he digested the plastic somehow?
One thing I did find in my research about mineral oil was that you should not give it right after the object is ingested because it can form a "protective coating" around the object and any blockages making it even harder for the pig to break them up and to pass them along. You want to wait long enough for the items to pass through their stomach and into their intestines, and then the mineral oil helps them slide through the rest of the way.
If anyone is having this problem I would re-research the mineral oil thing. I don't remember any of the exact amounts or time periods, but it did seem to work well with my guy.
Everything turned out fine, continued eating, drinking, pooping normally, the odd thing was I never saw any of the bag come back out... This has now been over a year ago and he continues to be a happy healthy senior pig. I've got to assume he digested the plastic somehow?
One thing I did find in my research about mineral oil was that you should not give it right after the object is ingested because it can form a "protective coating" around the object and any blockages making it even harder for the pig to break them up and to pass them along. You want to wait long enough for the items to pass through their stomach and into their intestines, and then the mineral oil helps them slide through the rest of the way.
If anyone is having this problem I would re-research the mineral oil thing. I don't remember any of the exact amounts or time periods, but it did seem to work well with my guy.
- PinkRufus
- Contributor in 2020
LINKS - When Non-Food Items Are Eaten:
https://www.guinealynx.info/records/viewtopic.php?t=118
https://www.guinealynx.info/records/viewtopic.php?t=118
Anyone else notice the date of the original post? I was about to respond then realized the last post before kalspach was back in April of '08. o.0