Flystrike

[Natasha3589]

Hi Is there anything I can buy to protect my outdoor pigs from flystrike? The vets has quoted me £45 per pig! For rear guard. I'd obvs pay the money but if there's a cheaper alternative I'd like to try it first

 

[Lady Kelly]

Best thing is keeping them cleaned out regularly and using a flyscreen if they are in an outdoors hutch. Make sure you check them regularly including inspecting their bums. Using a preventative product isn't massively effective. I have never used one and have had outdoor piggies for 6 years now with not one case of flystrike so far

 

[Wiebke]

Hi Is there anything I can buy to protect my outdoor pigs from flystrike? The vets has quoted me £45 per pig! For rear guard. I'd obvs pay the money but if there's a cheaper alternative I'd like to try it first

Hi!

Flystrike generally happens only with open wounds and where there is dead flesh or a urine infection with blood in the urine and a guinea pig no longer able to clean itself. In most cases, the only well cared for guinea pigs at risk are frail old ones that can no longer clean themselves around the genitalia. They can also be at risk even indoors as it has happened in rare cases to forum members.
Keep your piggies and cage/hutch cleaned very regularly and check the bum en. A mosquito net over the open part of the hutch can help keeping flies out.

Hot Weather Management and Heat Strokes (includes flystrike information)

 

[Natasha3589]

Thanks, that's a massive help. I shall buy a fly screen for their hutch x