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Does anybody else here have a bordetella carrier piggy? My cinder currently has a supposed bordetella flare up and I am wondering how frequently they have a flare up and how often if you have one piggy who is a carrier it crosses into the rest of the herd/group.
 
I don't have a guinea bordatella carrier but just wondered how yours became a carrier? I know if they are given an autogenous vaccination they then becme carriers. How did you find out Cinder was a carrier?
Potentially, she could pass this respitory disease onto the herd with disasterous consequences.
 
Cinder we think got it from the rabbits in pets at home (flimsy wooden divide). and this is what the vet told me.
I took him to the vets with an infrequent cough. I am also watching Flame and Blaze and should one of them start coughing we are blanket treating.
 
Interesting! another reason I can give to my pets at home who have regressed and last time I was there, buns and guineas were together :(

If your other guineas contract the disease though and if treatment is sucessful, they will also be carriers, right?
 
Poor little fella, but it is good to hear he is behaving normally. What's the treatment when the problem does flare up?
 
Blanket treatment with Baytril.
BUT Blaze loses 10g per day or 20g per injection when given baytril and little spark is only around 8 weeks so should be intresting. will have to weigh them all before i take cinder tommorow
And it is the vet i usually ask for.
 
I'm intrigued by this. 2 years ago i lost 2 piggies within a short time of one another with almost identical symptoms, the cause was thought to be pasturella passed on by a sneezing bun (who lived in the same shed at the time) but i was told if it'd been bordatella my whole herd would most likely have died & the only way of ridding the infection would have been to burn the hutches/shed.

I hope Cinders gets better soon & that no one else starts to cough :)
 
I am paranoid and go to the vets as soon as the coughing starts...
BUT I think I got it early with the two that are carriers and Blaze got preventative treatment, and this is the route we shall take everytime Flame or Cinder starts coughing
 
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