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Guinea Pig worms(?)

Its quite rare for guinea pigs to get gastrointestinal parasites, what you show in the photo looks to be some slightly mishapen wet poops.
If you can give us more info on the situation such as how long this has been happening, any other symptoms, what your piggies eat, we might be able to help further!
 
schultzy said:
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Hi and welcome

Can you please give us more background information as to which country you are in? (We have members and enquiries from all the world)
Where do you keep your guinea pigs (indoors/outdoors); do they have regular lawn time all year round?
Did you see actually them poop these things or have you just found them in the cage/hutch?

Gastro-intestinal worms in guinea pigs are in our experience very rare; we don't even see a case every year where they are suspected.
And they don't look like this from what I have seen on here.

You are much more likely either dealing with hatched eggs from an insect that have somehow got into the cage/hutch or mis-shapen poos.
 
They look like some kind of larvea/grub with segmented bodies, it's difficult to see from the photos. I've just been looking in some books and can't find anything exact but I've got a feeling I've seen these in the garden. If your piggies are not outside I'd suggest they have come in in the hay.
 
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