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Bites or skin problems?

Julesie

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So while cleaning the girls out today I noticed these marks on Yugi.



Are these bites or some kind of skin problem?

A bit of back story. Mumen recently died, their male boar companion and since then Eevee has not stopped rumbling at Yugi.
I suspected Eevee was the dominant piggie anyway but since Mumen died she’s been nonstop rumbling at Yugi and occasionally chasing her around. Could these marks be from that? I didn’t spy any marks on Eevee in return.

My vets aren’t very good with piggies so I wanted to see on here what the marks could be before i went to the vet for treatment.
 

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There’s two marks around her nipple, one on her inner leg and one at the top of her foot
 
Looks like the start of fungal spots to me. She would need a vet diagnosis and appropriate treatment
 
I agree - a trip to the vet is in order.
Hope that’s all ok.

Regarding the behaviour- when a piggy dies the others in the herd need to sort out their new hierarchy again.
When Merab died last year Jemimah and Priscilla had some minor tussles as they worked out who was now top piggy.
So far as I can tell they decided to share the top pig slot
 
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