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Impacted rectum info please..

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I have taken in two guinea pigs for PinkPawsRescue today.

Now they have arrived in foster, the young/mid aged girls we expected are actually two geriatric gentlemen, Bless 'them.

On examination, they both have impacted rectums, but one much more severe than the other and I evacuated a boiled egg sized lump of stinky, moulding yuckyness. His little penis looks to be 'thrushy/milky'. The muscle tone around that area is very loose and shows their age.

I have gently bathed both their bots with warm water with a splosh of olive oil in.. and they seem to be alot more comfortable. The smell is still in my nose though @)

Obviously, due to their age and their condition, they will remain here for the rest of their lives now. I accept I am going to have to manually evacuate for them as they need and have done this before with aged boars @15 years ago.

Could anyone give me some 'hands on' (excuse the pun!) advise though, please?

Any suppliments, or ideal fresh food which will assist their bowel movements?


All the piggies are only in hutches from 8pm - 6am - and have a cereal/hay feed.
During the day, they are on grass/clover in pens - and have fresh fruit and veg.

I am thinking the exercise will also assist any muscle tone?
Their general condition/weights are ideal.

Any advise gratefully recieved - they will be taken to the Vet n Wednesday for health checks as a matter of course anyways, but it's useful 'tried and tested' advise I am after from peeps here, please xx
 
No idea of their previous diet, but if anything like their conditions, it would have been dire. They've lived in a cage in a shed, to my knowledge - and have only decent diet/sunshine/pen exercise in the past week as a lovely lady managed to remove them (as they were totally not wanted) and bring them into PinkPaws care.


Their teeth are good, skin condition good - and lovely lady has trimmed back their overgrown nails. During the week at her house, they have been exercised outside on the grass daily. I've seen far FAR worse than these ol' guys.

I've just rechecked their rear ends, and GingerBoy is looking SO much better - muscles improved and his whole 'area' looking clean and not swollen/infected. He really needed to be 'relieved' poor chap..
BigBoy is looking fine, he's a large tortie x) GingerBoy is an Abby x)
 
Anyone, who has supported a piggie through this condition, got any homeopathic remedies? Anyone feed anything to their guineas to relieve and help this condition?

So many elderly boars suffering from this ailment. There must be something that goes IN that helps what comes OUT?;)
 
Mineral oil is another name for baby oil and really does help - just a few drops on a cotton bud and twizzle it round inside after cleaning.

I clean out once the clodge gets to a small marble size so the sac isn't stretched again by a large mass and it also gives the pig the chance to expel it themselves. Often things do improve after the first clean out, a good high fibre diet is best - I stay away from cabbage type veggies as these make their poos softer and more likely to cause a problem.

If the willy get stinky again, extrude it and clean off all the gunk then apply a touch of Sudocrem or similar, I've found that with really stinky, sore willies it helps a great deal. Check daily and clean and reapply when needed.

HTH

Suzy x
 
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