Impaction!

[Abi281]

Pepe, our rescue boar, is 3 and a half (we think) and I have just cleared my first impaction. (Yay! Go me!)

He is sulking in his boar cave at the moment as I would be, but seems to have taken the whole thing in good heart. However I did not offer him the poo to eat - which I should have done.

Is this a big problem?

Thanks Abi

 

[Kerrie74]

From what I've read on the forums, older piggies muscles can go in that area so they get impaction, but it can also be a sign of illness, one of my boars who we sadly had to have put to sleep kept getting it, we found out he had two bladder stones (not saying that's what's going on with your piggie, just giving you an example).

 

[Abi281]

Thank you. He had one earlier in the summer which he managed to pass - I found a massive stinky ball in his cage, but the vet didn't think it was a huge problem.

Will keep an eye on him. Bit worried about not offering it to him to eat though...

 

[VickyMidlands]

Don't worry, a vet cleared rio's last week and didn't offer it to him to eat. Rio is 6 and a half and doesn't eat his own poo now anyway. Rio sulked too..,for a day!

 

[Abi281]

Thanks Vicky. He is just very special to us as he came from a rescue place after being very badly neglected and we want to do the best by him. Turns out he wasn't sulking, he just was enjoying a particularly thick bed of straw in his boar cave. All of the piggies seem to be doing this - despite the fact they live inside!

I wonder if he is older than I was led to believe. 3 1/2 seems quite young for these problems.