Foot Spurs (close up pictures before and after)

[GPQ]

Fred my oldest sow suffers from Foot spurs, these are hard bits of excess skin that grows from the Guinea Pigs foot and some inexperienced people think its an extra toe or nail.

This is the before photo....

As you can see the spur is next to my thumb nail

The after photo...

Spur was removed with human nail clippers, you can also use nail scissors too but be careful as cutting too close can make your pig bleed.
The nails were also trimmed too.

The actual piece I cut off...


I hope this has been useful for some members.

Emma x

[louiser]

Thats a great post thanks, nice clear pics too!

I have been trimming mine too

[MemberX]

Thanks Emma, thats very useful! xxx

[rw3399]

What a useful post!!

[Clare]

so thats what my cuddle cups has!!!!!! does it cause discomfort? is it mainly found in older pigs?

[linz]

very helpfull post

[Neve38]

My little piggie Buttercup has those too, the vet just flicked one off once and it did bleed a little but not a lot.

Joy xx

[mackpossum]

Two of my piggies get them regularly, too. I cut them off with the clippers when I do the nail trimming.

Superb, clear pictures, well done!!

[Alfie]

Those photos are very clear, I think they will be helpful for people.
Jimmy gets them and I worried like crazy the first time I removed one.
I wonder what causes them.

[kelspiggies]

none of my piggies ever got that, also none of mine ever had the twisty claws either, was this just bacause they had permanent access to a concrete base run? all my piggies always had claws as short as a new born minipigs, and straight aswell. guess it was *** of the concrete, would make sense yes