My nearly 5 year old sow has ongoing bladder issues. Septrin normally clears it up, and loxicom helps with the inflammation (i also give zantac as cruchie has had tummy issues in the past.)
She jusy finished a week of antibs a couple weeks ago, and this morning we are back to bloody urine and quiet squeaks when weeing- i guess the only consolation is she doesnt appear to be in as much pain this time round. This is probably the 8th or 9th time weve treated with antibs, shes had an ultrasound and several urine samples tested, all that comes back is blood and inflammation. We tried treating her before with just the loxicom but septrin was eventually needed and it works very fast. Shes had a 3 week course in the past and still it came back. She has also been xrayed to rule out stones recently, and urine is always checked for crystals.
I used to feed burgess excell but changed to vitakraft as it was lower in calcium. It helped her bladder issues but everyones poos where a bit off and wouldnt resolve (i took proper precautions of introducing food.) i then changed to oxbow as was advised it was lower in calcium, but have since learned of the calcium carbonate issue with it. I am now going to go back to burgess excel blackcurrent, as it is getting out of hand now.
I was free feeding pellets, as i have a terminally ill piggy in the group that needs all the food she can get. I have now bit the bullet and took all pellets out the cage, and just offering the oxbow to my other 2 sows a few times a day. I will start slowly introducing the burgess to crunchie tomorrow.
I have always fed crunchie on an IC diet since her second flare. It helped initially but not anymore. (Celery,cucumber,pepper,green bean and occasionally tomato or carrot)
I recently gave the girls Ings hay as the timothy wasnt great and they didnt like it- i understand non timothy hay is slightly higher in calcium so i have now changed the hay back to my original alfalfa king timothy- its expensive but dont know of any cheaper but good quality timothy out there.
She has her oxbow urinary support tab daily, shes on her 2nd box so thats been around 65 days shes had these.
Today i also started giving barley water- she preffered the blended barley with water rather than just the gloop. I'm not going to start giving her pellets until tomorrow, incase she has any effects from the barley and i can pinpoint the cause.
Does anyone have any advice? This has been going on for around 7/8 months maybe and although she remains bright and eating throughout bless her, it must be horrible for her!
This is what she passes on a flare
She jusy finished a week of antibs a couple weeks ago, and this morning we are back to bloody urine and quiet squeaks when weeing- i guess the only consolation is she doesnt appear to be in as much pain this time round. This is probably the 8th or 9th time weve treated with antibs, shes had an ultrasound and several urine samples tested, all that comes back is blood and inflammation. We tried treating her before with just the loxicom but septrin was eventually needed and it works very fast. Shes had a 3 week course in the past and still it came back. She has also been xrayed to rule out stones recently, and urine is always checked for crystals.
I used to feed burgess excell but changed to vitakraft as it was lower in calcium. It helped her bladder issues but everyones poos where a bit off and wouldnt resolve (i took proper precautions of introducing food.) i then changed to oxbow as was advised it was lower in calcium, but have since learned of the calcium carbonate issue with it. I am now going to go back to burgess excel blackcurrent, as it is getting out of hand now.
I was free feeding pellets, as i have a terminally ill piggy in the group that needs all the food she can get. I have now bit the bullet and took all pellets out the cage, and just offering the oxbow to my other 2 sows a few times a day. I will start slowly introducing the burgess to crunchie tomorrow.
I have always fed crunchie on an IC diet since her second flare. It helped initially but not anymore. (Celery,cucumber,pepper,green bean and occasionally tomato or carrot)
I recently gave the girls Ings hay as the timothy wasnt great and they didnt like it- i understand non timothy hay is slightly higher in calcium so i have now changed the hay back to my original alfalfa king timothy- its expensive but dont know of any cheaper but good quality timothy out there.
She has her oxbow urinary support tab daily, shes on her 2nd box so thats been around 65 days shes had these.
Today i also started giving barley water- she preffered the blended barley with water rather than just the gloop. I'm not going to start giving her pellets until tomorrow, incase she has any effects from the barley and i can pinpoint the cause.
Does anyone have any advice? This has been going on for around 7/8 months maybe and although she remains bright and eating throughout bless her, it must be horrible for her!
This is what she passes on a flare
