Probiotics

[Guineapiggirl34]

You can give the Fibreplex but she should still see a vet. There may well be something else they can do. It’s not normal to have continually soft poops so there may be something wrong that needs diagnosing

She has been to the vet a lot of times and they say she looks fantastic and noth8ng obviously wrong . They say don’t worry just give probiotic… she doesn’t have any pain or anything. That is why I wondered if a vet could give a stronger probiotic

 

[Guineapiggirl34]

I am sorry to hear your guinea pig is struggling with her digestive system & doing soft poos.

This is our experiences, I hope some of it can help you.

One of our guinea pigs, Hamish, (who’s no longer with us) struggled with his poos. The muscles in his anus were quite weak, the vets words were, “If he was a person I would say you need to increase fibre & do exercises!” Guinea pigs diet is naturally fibre rich with hay. We settled on 1 dose/helping of fibreplex daily. Which worked for him. The Vet was happy with our regime. Our Hamish was also on longterm, daily Metacam for pain at the base of his spine & a glucosamine supplement for possible arthritis.
Hamish was unique, he loved fibreplex & would happily eat it on top of a nugget like icing!

We currently have Herman pig living with us. He has multiple unknown, goodness knows what going on inside his little body! Herman is not on any medication.
The vet is happy with him, (he sees the vet every 12weeks)he’s lived with us about 7 months now. He’s a happy chap. When he does splatty poos, I remove all veg until they are better & reintroduce 48hrs later. We also increase the probiotic & offer him soft recovery food. Which seems to helps his guts, rebalance.

We have discovered my garden lettuce does not agree with him. Herman has no sweet food, and no sweet dried forage. He’s also on a lifelong ban from pea flakes after the rescue discovered they massively disagreed with him.

Herman hates fibreplex, I struggle to get him to take it any which way, so he gets one pellet of protexin pro-fibre daily which I have discovered is enough for him on a normal day.

The protexin pellets were also recommended to us by Herman’s guinea pig rescue.

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Thank you soo so much for what you have said. I did order more Fibreplex earlier this week. Will prob give her that this week (and her cage mate who is on antibiotics although her poos are still very good -you can tell them apart the little girl on antibiotics does these tiny little firm poops. Her sister are these massive great things even when firm, when wet or mushy they are gigantic! But she is a big piggie) she does hate the Fibreplex though, she does a car alarm scream when she sees the syringe coming… so I will order a pot of those fibre pellets and try giving her a couple a day and see if she can then tolerate veg… she has had nothing but red pepper for a long time, and quiet often she has days without that too. I do feel sorry for her. They eat a lot of hay! And I only use one type of forage to make sure it is not the forage doing it to her (this particular one she has gone a week without soft poos on, not had any more time to try any other forage as the soft poos just keep returning)

 

[Piggies&buns]

She has been to the vet a lot of times and they say she looks fantastic and noth8ng obviously wrong . They say don’t worry just give probiotic… she doesn’t have any pain or anything. That is why I wondered if a vet could give a stronger probiotic

There isn’t really a stronger probiotic, Fibreplex is one of the better ones. It’s not a medication so isn’t something a vet would prescribe as such