So it has been a rough week for the piggies. We lost Sofia at the Sunday night due to illness, and today the three remaining females decided they were to fight it out. The other two are fine, but Maggie has a hole in her cheek. It doesn't look as if it's more than a small cut at first, but there is hair connected to a flap of skin, which is covering a hole in her face. The hole goes completely through the first layer of skin, seemingly forming a pocket. The only cavy savvy vet relatively near me (over an hour) cannot get her in until next week. As soon as it happened, I separated them and tended to Mags. I didn't have any antiseptic solution on hand, but I wanted to kill immediate germs, so I dabbed it with a q-tip soaked in hydrogen peroxide then one soaked in warm salt-water. After doing a little research, I then put a TINY amount of antibiotic ointment (triple antibiotic with Bacitracin, Neomycin, and Polymycin B) on a q-tip and put just a bit inside the pocket. I then gently closed the flap and smoothed her hair down to try to prevent her from getting to the antibiotic ointment. It did not seem to hurt at the time (12 pm or so), but that may have been shock or trying to hide the extent of her injury. It's now 9:30 pm and she did not seem to be in pain until I lifted the flap to take a picture. I know abscesses can form in these types of wounds in far less than a week, and I would like to prevent that until she can get into the vet. Any suggestions?
At first not much looked wrong:

After just parting the fur:

A couple different angles of the hole, the last one is with flash on.


