Know you guinea pig, know your poo
I've seen poop a bit like the picture Emily posted, but it looked more broken at the end, like the piggy bit the end off. Don't they sometimes pull it out with their teeth?
I think everything is fine with my girls, by the way. Their freshly-made poops look normal; what I was seeing was probably pieces being broken up or stuck together by trampling and being kicked around. I took the fleece out of the cage and put in paper bedding again, and it eliminated the urine odor. Maybe I need new fleece?
I think everything is fine with my girls, by the way. Their freshly-made poops look normal; what I was seeing was probably pieces being broken up or stuck together by trampling and being kicked around. I took the fleece out of the cage and put in paper bedding again, and it eliminated the urine odor. Maybe I need new fleece?
I know this isn't quite what you're describing but it reminded me of something odd one of my pigs does. She has this strange habit of biting droppings in half and spitting them out. She'll do the regular "tuck and grab" when they're eating their special poops but half the time she breaks them up and spits them out. I'm not sure what to make of it. Maybe she can't tell the difference before grabbing them and decides that one isn't what she wanted. She eats most of them when she does this.
I know all I seem to post are photos of poop but here's an example of what I find (there will be a few of them in a pile):
I know all I seem to post are photos of poop but here's an example of what I find (there will be a few of them in a pile):
- GP_mum
- Supporter in '13
Just wanted to share my recent/on-going experience with semi-soft poo for 1 (suspected) of my 3 pigs. This has been happening for 2-3 weeks and it's just softer poo which makes the fleece yucky as you can imagine. No obvious change in odour though.
Reading a feedback in the medical threads that for her pigs, the soft poo seemed connected to too much pellets or eating too much at 1 go, I tried giving the girls pellets with more intervals + cutting down a few (6-9) pellets for the suspected pig. I had previously held back on giving them vegetables (type and amount has been the same) but it only helped slighly. Have to say, with the slight drop in pellets and moving the frequency to 3 times at the pellet dish VS 1-2 times has helped quite a bit to firm back up the poos.
Reading a feedback in the medical threads that for her pigs, the soft poo seemed connected to too much pellets or eating too much at 1 go, I tried giving the girls pellets with more intervals + cutting down a few (6-9) pellets for the suspected pig. I had previously held back on giving them vegetables (type and amount has been the same) but it only helped slighly. Have to say, with the slight drop in pellets and moving the frequency to 3 times at the pellet dish VS 1-2 times has helped quite a bit to firm back up the poos.
- Ibepatience
- Supporter in '13
Do you think it's possible that being nervous could cause diarrhea? I asked the vet and she said no but sometimes vets are more "textbook" than actual experience.