Contemplating an extra piggy...

PigglePuggle said:
Blodwen approves, for the first time she's sitting out in the open chookened out on piggy daddy's fleece doing that sphinx like arms crossed head up posture rather than hiding her face away trembling...
And she ate 5mls of critical care from a syringe plus extra critical care spread on veggies plus a few pellets! Not much luck with hay eating yet but piggy daddy is trying to hand feed it to her after she's had a basic critical care ration plus veggies so she gets the idea... there's really no definite medical reason for syringe feeding except she's too anxious to eat but anything that keeps her alive and makes her like us is good! She loves her piggy daddy a lot...
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Yay! I'm so glad she's relaxed a bit :wub:. I hope Piggy Daddy has plenty of fleeces so she can have a steady stream of Daddy Love to snuggle into :love:
 
Finally caught up with this thread.
So glad you rescued Blodwyn and are giving her a chance at a great life.
She's beautiful.

Hope all the health issues can get sorted quickly for you .
 
PigglePuggle said:
Thanks! Piggy daddy is welsh and new piggy is welsh and she certainly has a big white lopsided rosette on her forehead :) we had no idea she was a breeder's reject but now she's here we'll just make the best of things and hopefully she will make a nice passive low ranking herd friend for Jezebel after her quarantine then all the fluffy pigs can hang out together... we have Surolan and lots of F10 to combat the ringworm but if we dont see improvements in eating andcskun condition by next week we'll be straight back at the vet. Naughty piggy daddy... I was contemplating sending nameless piggy back because she was clearly very unhappy and a a massive infection risk to the herd...but he registered her with the vet and gave her a name so I guess she's staying!
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You may find oral itrafungol (prescription only) much less stressful for a freaky piggy - it's not cheap though. It helped me majorly in getting Briallen through her hubby Barri's ringworm outbreak last year. While Briallen trusts me implicitly after three years, she still has a REAL thing about hands and being handled due to being a traumatised ex-toddler's pet.

When you bathe Blodwen, please do so in a bowl sitting on a towel on the bottom of a shower or bathtub, so she cannot hurt herself in case she blind jumps and while she has to wait for the dip to work. If necessary put a cardboard box over her as protection, which you can then get rid of.

It can be very difficult for a piggy that obviously never has had hay in her life before to start eating it without the herd incentive - the same goes for introducing a piggy to veg that has never had any... :(
I've been there with freaky adoptees of mine. Just persist - you and your hub (we share the Welsh hub part obviously) are doing great.

It depends on how bad the ringworm is; generally 3-4 applications at a 3 day interval do the trick.
 
Just caught up with your story and have to say Blodwyn is one very lucky piggy to have found you two. I hope all goes well with her introduction to the herd when she has recovered. I am really looking forward to reading updates on this story.
 
piggieminder said:
Just caught up with your story and have to say Blodwyn is one very lucky piggy to have found you two. I hope all goes well with her introduction to the herd when she has recovered. I am really looking forward to reading updates on this story.
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Updates are on the "Blod in a box" thread :)
 
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