Bayberrybae
New Born Pup
Hi! Sarah here. You may have seen me recently post a thread on my boar who just passed, Ozzy, and his situation. Well, now we're having another one. Up til now this year, I have sadly lost 3 pigs. 2 babies, and my boar I mentioned. Both babies passed due to bad accidents and were not illness-related. Due to these devastating losses, you can imagine we're all trying to take extra care of all our other pigs and prevent any other sicknesses from happening.
That being said, we have four other females. One of our females was a cage mate to one of the babies we recently lost, and was grieving. Late in the night after that baby passed, that same female was understandably upset, and she started hooting quite loudly, but was showing no other signs of any pain or sickness. Since then, she's been hooting more and more. It started as something she did at night, and it has now started to occur in the daytime as well. The only other signs of any sickness, like a URI for example, was that her wheek is now raspy and sometimes doesn't come out at all, and usually when she has one of these hooting fits all she needs to do is have one big cough and the noise stops. I've found shes hooting the most while she's relaxing, lying down, or even eating hay. The reason I'm so concerned is that I know most people relate hooting noises to heart diseases or a URI, and as I previously mentioned, having lost 3 pigs this year has made me quite the overly worried pig parent. I've made an appointment with our vet but it isn't for about 2 weeks, and I just wanted some input on if I should be more worried and get her into an emergency vet sooner, or wait out the 2 weeks.
I know it's not a lot of information to go off of, but at the same time, hooting isn't something to be taken lightly with pigs. Thoughts?
That being said, we have four other females. One of our females was a cage mate to one of the babies we recently lost, and was grieving. Late in the night after that baby passed, that same female was understandably upset, and she started hooting quite loudly, but was showing no other signs of any pain or sickness. Since then, she's been hooting more and more. It started as something she did at night, and it has now started to occur in the daytime as well. The only other signs of any sickness, like a URI for example, was that her wheek is now raspy and sometimes doesn't come out at all, and usually when she has one of these hooting fits all she needs to do is have one big cough and the noise stops. I've found shes hooting the most while she's relaxing, lying down, or even eating hay. The reason I'm so concerned is that I know most people relate hooting noises to heart diseases or a URI, and as I previously mentioned, having lost 3 pigs this year has made me quite the overly worried pig parent. I've made an appointment with our vet but it isn't for about 2 weeks, and I just wanted some input on if I should be more worried and get her into an emergency vet sooner, or wait out the 2 weeks.
I know it's not a lot of information to go off of, but at the same time, hooting isn't something to be taken lightly with pigs. Thoughts?