supplementing guineas

Re: supplementing guineas

nelly Franquet — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:56:32 GMT

should be bladder stone, here we use Baytril to help dissolving it, and if it's not enough efficient then we sound the urethra and make an enema of the bladder .

Re: supplementing guineas

bongo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:01:33 GMT

yeah i will have to do a spin down if i get enough urine!

Re: supplementing guineas

bongo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:58:41 GMT

well if it seems more that simple cystitis i will have to get her xrayed and go from there. I will have to see if I get enough urine to do a spin down

Re: supplementing guineas

Kim Buckley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:54:05 GMT

Yeah seen quite a few piggies with bladder stones. We had one who the owner had left for ages and you could see it's bladder bulging out of it's abdomen because the stone was so big it couldn't pee. Poor thing

Re: supplementing guineas

Vicky RVN — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:50:51 GMT

Ah could be. We have an old pig that a client brings in. She's on long term antib's for cystitis. O' doesn't want to operate with her being 8 years old, which is fair enough. I pig sit her when the o' goes on holiday, she's a cute little thing & is very good for her daily baytril!

Re: supplementing guineas

bongo — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:48:09 GMT

i think she actually has cystitis, there was a little dribble of bloody urine in the run. gonna try and get a sample (GOOD LUCK TO ME!) and take it to work, hopefully its just a bit of cystitis not anything else, i hear stones are quite common.

Re: supplementing guineas

Vicky RVN — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:09:24 GMT

I don't supplement my pigs, they have a bit of excel, lots of hay and herbage, grass and a selection of veggies (kale, carrot & broccoli mainly, with other bits). Poppy has had diarrhoea once, she was checked over and i syringe fed her for a few days because she wasn't eating enough. But other than that no digestive problems!

Re: supplementing guineas

Kim Buckley — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 22:02:12 GMT

I've always fed my g-pigs on excel, lots of hay and spring greens, carrots etc and most of them have lived until a ripe old age.with no supplements. Has she been passing any diarrhoea or just making funny noises?