I know it kills you in the end. I done one for a month getting up all hours. I almost got sacked from my job
I can syringe feed up to four piggies at the same time. I get as much food in during the day, but I have to get my sleep, as I work a lot of hours during the day. I am currently syringe feeding Hettie and Biscuit, but as it is school holidays, I have about 8 hours pet feeding work throughout the day. Then on top of that I am trying to get sorted for our event on Saturday and looking after the day to day care of the TEAS piggies and studying for my Advanced Diploma too. I haven't got to the gym for a few weeks though! :-(
Jesus mary. You must be tired
I had to syringe a gerbil once. That was so difficult lol she had broken teeth. And in the end got pneumonia sadly
Blimey you are a very busy person! And I thought I had a lot to do!
Shes taken all veg when i was asleep and the lights were out. She has taken kale this morning and some carrot. I managed to get her to play tug of war last night with a thick piece if hay. Its something i always done with her when she was like 3 months old.
What do you reccomend i do with syringe feeding. How little and how often?
How come you dont like the 15ml syringes. I couldnt go back to the 1ml's now for cc. I just pack all the cc in the top of the 15ml tube and dont have to keep sucking cc up.
I hate them...I find it difficult to gauge how much you are syringing in at a time and I worry that the piggy can asperate if you give too much. With a 1 ml syringe, you can syringe in the whole amount and then as the piggy is swallowing it down, you refill. I guess it's what we get used to. I have some great 1 ml syringes, that last for ages and just make it all so easy.
I found the 1ml syringes much easier. Christian couldn't get the hang of the 15ml syringes and he preferfed the 1ml ones too.Shes just sitting in a corner hiding at the moment
Does she live on her own? I find lone piggies tend not to move around so much anyway. Keep offering her little bits of veg and if she doesn't seem to be eating much, give her a few mls of syringe food and then offer more veg. I found, when she was here, that she ate better after having a few mls of syringe food, so maybe that is the way to go.
I found that too. I have already syringed her. Yea she lives on her own. So does burnie. I am thinking of housing them next to each other so they can chat better. I just took burnie over to her and she was wheeking away like crazy and climbing up for him. She has veg in there. She has definitly picked up now shes seen burnie.
Also when I am wanting to encourage them to eat, I don't give them a hidey house all the time, as often they just hide away. I give one some of the time, but at other times I take it out.
Its working . Shes popcorning
She has just squealed for veg time which is good. Burnie seems to be doing a great job
i take it il get dot her vit c from the cc. It sais it has alot in it
I have just read up about cystitis in guinea pigs. And dot is matching the symptoms exactly. It sais it can take 3 weeks or more to resolve. Simon said the lump kim felt had gone down when they felt it a week after the first examination. So maybe we are getting somewhere. I'm tempted to try some cranberry juice
Anyone?
yea true but dot does it for ages and squeals sometimes. For got to mention that bit