Rochester Piggy
Teenage Guinea Pig
I'm really scared for my piggy Cali. She went outside on July 28th and I'm scared she might have flystrike. She isn't showing any signs, but I'm still scared. Should I take her to the vet?
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Fly Strike!
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No - if she'd had fly strike, it would have long hit! The maggots develop quickly, usually within a day or two.
Check the genitalia area of at-risk piggies throughout the first 2-3 days after a piggy has been out or after you've had a very large fly in your guinea pig room. You see first slightly red dots (it can be one to several) and then white points appearing while the genital area swells up increasingly. In the early stages fly strike is survivable if it is seen asap as an emergency.
Fly strikes are RARE, but unfortunately they do happen every now and then to well kept, but frail piggies. It is one of these issues that you have to be aware of in order to spot the alarm signs and hopefully be able to act before it is too late.
We see/hear about one case every 1-2 years on average on this forum, compared to the well over 1000 other health problems that come through here in a year.
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Wiebke is very correct in what she says.
We weren't trying to alarm with the warning on fly strike recently just to make people aware. It is a very rare thing but due to a forum piggy getting it, we felt a reminder of the dangers would be in order.
Please don't worry about little Cali at all.
We weren't trying to alarm with the warning on fly strike recently just to make people aware. It is a very rare thing but due to a forum piggy getting it, we felt a reminder of the dangers would be in order.
Please don't worry about little Cali at all.
Rochester Piggy
Teenage Guinea Pig
The flies are usually killed by my fiance or caught and released by me before they go into the living room, so it's rare one does get into the same room as her. Can a regular fruit/house fly give a piggy flystrike? The ones we have are about 1/2 cm to 1 cm long.