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I’m sorry to hear about the stone. I hope your piggy recovers well. Most calcium comes into the diet via pellets and water. Ensuring pellets are low calcium (science selective grain free is often recommended) and kept to one tablespoon per days, and also ensuring water is filtered helps...

It is absolutely true pellets should be limited and not fed as much as you want. It is and will always remain the advice of the forum for long term health reasons. Their diet needs to be primarily hay and grass. While pellets can serve a purpose in bridging any gaps in nutrition, there are a...

I’ve given them filtered water today. Thanks for the tip about washing the veg with it too.

With bladder stones I found it helped a lot to switch to filtered water (we just use a standard Brita jug) and also feed all veg rinsed with filtered water so they are eating it quite 'wet' if that makes sense. I know it's hard not to panic, but after Ruby had surgery for sludge (which ended up...

Welcome to the forum and I am sorry to hear this. There is a condition called sterile interstitial cystitis. It’s similar to what occurs in cats. It is a condition which displays as symptoms of a UTI, however, it is not bacterial so repeated courses of antibiotics will not cure it. IC is a...

Hi, I recently took my 5 year old piggy Scribble to the vets as she had a symptoms of a UTI, but I was also worried about her having bladder stones because there were a lot of calcium deposits in the cage too and on her bum. Anyway, she had an ultrasound which showed no bladder stones (a big...

My girls aren't eating their pellets. I know that this is a small portion of the diet and they can be fine without any. Is there anything I need to think about when going pellet free?

thankyou so much! i think i’m going to have to get some grain free pellets! already filtering water, ill take a look at the veggies recommended! thanks again!

Hello and welcome to you and Mavis (Edna, too). Some Guinea pigs can be susceptible to stones, and some can eat all the calcium rich veg in the world and never be troubled by them. It’s a bit like humans, I guess. But you’ve done the right thing in planning to switch to a low calcium diet to...

Creamy white pee is normally just we don't want it gritty. How much pellets are you feeding? They recommend a tablespoon per piggie on here. Mine actually get much less than that now, only about a teaspoon each as it causes Nancy to be in more pain. Also, filtering water. If the scans come...

Diet is the only one we can control. Genetics also play a part though and there’s obviously not anything you can do about that. Ensure you feed a good hay and grass based diet. Most calcium comes into the diet via pellets and drinking water (particularly is you live in a hard water area), so...

I was gonna start getting her bottled water but I'm having a hard time knowing which one due to all these extra ingredients and high calcium. Oh dear, I don't think she is gonna be happy going pellet free as like Poppy, she loves them! I would also be concerned she may lose too much weight...

He had a scan in February. His bladder is fine. His urine been viewed under a microscope twice, & no calcium crystals present only bacteria, hence the antibiotics & pain relief. His diet is low calcium, he has grain free pellets, filtered water, & cystease capsule a day. All to help his...

Just as the title says, I'm having lots of issues with large calcium deposits despite doing everything I can think of to manage the calcium in their diets. I have three guinea pigs and this seems to be affecting all three (one has had two bladder stones, one is having sludge issues and cystitis...

Now that you know you have a piggy with a tendency towards bladder issues, I would follow pretty rigidly the recommended diet with low calcium focus Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets Having had this issue with other bladder piggies, let me tell you what has worked for...

Hi I am very sorry. The calcium absorption process is pretty complex and quite a lot can go wrong. Usually you need more than one contributing factor - a genetic disposition, something going suddenly wrong, not being a good natural drinker (not much you can do about that; over-hydration can...

Ahh, okay. I think I will just change up their pellets for now and wait on taking away the lettuce then. Hopefully getting the grain-free pellets will make the difference. I have wondered if I just have unlucky piggies who just have the genetic disposition to bladder issues, but since all three...

Hi Diet-wise, keep off any root veg (including carrots), any grain (including sweetcorn), go very lightly on fruit and mainly feed cucumber, 1 slice of pepper a day, a little fresh coriander (USA: cilantro) every few days, a slice of greens (USA: collard greens) once a week; they are a milder...

Sounds like your diet is just not in the ideal area; this can be because you are either too low or too high in calcium and oxalates (which contribute to the stone formation and are the reason why we are recommending to cut out some food groups entirely). Please don't give more than 1 tablespoon...

do you have an update on your boy? i hope hes doing well!🩵