Do Sows Have A Stronger Smell When They Are In Season?

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So I have a stinky sow situation. Had the girls out for lap time and noticed they smell stronger than normal. They have never had a guinea pig smell before but today it was quite noticeable especially considering Patchy wanted to climb up under my chin and get all cosy although she smells the strongest of the two. I'm wondering if maybe she is in season as she is so lovely natured I would never know except she was unusually cuddly today. Do they maybe need a bath, I was hoping to avoid it as it is not natural for them in the wild to bath with animal shampoo etc and don't want to upset the natural PH of their skin. I sometimes notice their cage smells stronger than usual when i'm spot cleaning in the last month or so and needs to be cleaned out before their full weekly clean is due.
 
Depending on who is in season and how strong the season is, we do tend to get a lot more scent marking and urine spraying.
This makes them a bit smellier than usual, but with clean beds it usually disappears again after a day or so, so I personally wouldn't bath them.
 
They have been cleaned out today, cage was a little on the nose at morning spot clean so hopefully it might not linger for too long. It's usually Coco that has been having the strong season's of late, never been able to tell with little Patchy but I suppose she has them.
 
Same here - when Ruby is in season everyone knows about it.
On the other hand we have had Lucy for almost a year and I an only recall her ever having 1 obvious season.
I know she has them, but is far less dramatic about the whole thing!
 
Have you checked for discharge? Gross I know, but I was handling a friend's pair of girls and they stunk to high heaven. I checked them over and they had discharge, they were taken to the vet and it turned out to be a urine infection. A whole bunch of baytril later and they're back to being sweet smelling and no more discharge! They were on wood shavings though which probably caused it.
 
No not this time, Patchy was being so cuddly I didn't want to disturb her. It's a bit rare for her. Coco on the other hand was only out for a minute because I think she needed to go toilet as she was really squirmy. I usually check them over when I get them out. I will check them out when I put them to bed for the night. Coco's really not fun checking out her bits because she's black and I can barely see anything lol.
 
Swissgreys said:
Depending on who is in season and how strong the season is, we do tend to get a lot more scent marking and urine spraying.
This makes them a bit smellier than usual, but with clean beds it usually disappears again after a day or so, so I personally wouldn't bath them.
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the spraying! Treacle was like a fountain, the amount of time she used to spray Cookie in the face :))
 
sport_billy said:
the spraying! Treacle was like a fountain, the amount of time she used to spray Cookie in the face :))
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Mollie and Mabel were at it last night and Mollie got a right good spraying from Mabel - stood there with it dropping off her fuzzy face - gross :vom:
 
sport_billy said:
the spraying! Treacle was like a fountain, the amount of time she used to spray Cookie in the face :))
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I have yet to see this happen but i've only just been introduced to the "pinch a poo out my bum and eat it after dinner snack while mummy is 10cm away from me spot cleaning poo". I've seen enough babies thankyou.
 
VickiA said:
Mollie and Mabel were at it last night and Mollie got a right good spraying from Mabel - stood there with it dropping off her fuzzy face - gross :vom:
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poor Mollie ! I have never seen mine do that - thank goodness... they probably wait until i am out the house !
 
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