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To Clean or not to clean a boars willy.

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I run a rescue centre, and every boar thats leaves here, has his new owners shown how to clean the willy. Yes it's not the best job in the world, as you can get impacted sacs and smelly bits. But I feel IT MUST BE DONE.
The amount of times they are second or third time owners have have neaver been shown this or told about it, well! They brought from pet shops, no need to say any more. I've also had boars in for bonding and pairing and again had to tell the owner.
We have brought these animals into our lives. Therefore we have to give them 110% care. We owe it to them. Just imagine if you have a lump of saw dust, hay, food ect stuck in your bits. It would be very unpleasent.
As I'm new to the Forum it may have been covered before. Sorry if I'm banging on the same old drum. The internet dose not give you much information on it. But when did you last clean your boars willy? Sarah X
 
To be honest, I just got boars a couple of months ago, and had never heard of this, before coming onto this forum. I've read guinea pig books and articles on the internet, but never heard of it. I've checked my boars' willies a few times but they seem clean, so I've never cleaned them.

My friend's boar though, he has an infection down there because of getting wood shavings stuck in there. I told her to put something on top of the wood shavings where he sleeps, like a bit of hay or fleece, because mine are on woodshavings with hay on top in the sleeping area, and they don't get stuff stuck in there (yet). Of course she took him to the vet aswell. In fairness to her, she thought it was a girl until I saw her recently!

I'll keep checking them every now and again, but I won't clean them unless they seem to need it.
 
I always inform adopters either in person or in the care sheets I give them to check their boars willies every day for any bits of debris caught in them, and to check for signs of impaction by examing that area weekly. Always a sensitive area to talk about when people are with children but as you say important. I would only suggest washing the willy if it actually needed it.
 
I check Sam's bits regularly ( much to his disgust! ) and have had to take the odd hair and bit of hay out but before I got him was chatting to a guy at work who has boars and said oh now I'm getting a boy I'll have the lovely job of checking his bits and his response was why! So I explained and don't think he was keen on the idea. My sister is piggie sitting while I'm on holiday and I showed her how to do it, she was a little put off but I know she'll still do it for me. I'm not at all surprised that people don't know, if you aren't told then you wouldn't automatically know to do it and I wouldn't imagine pet shops would tell you it's something you need to do.
 
oh my gosh i am gonna puke...what the heck have i done getting a boy....this is disgusting..sob sob.....i will do it but that thought had not even crossed my mind...oh no
 
just checked the other thread...oh my goodness they can grow big i am well grossed out now....i want a girl piggie.........seriously people i wont be able to cope doing that at all....what am i goign to do?
 
Don't panic

Don't panic and don't worry. Some piggies only need it doing every 6 months, others once a week. But you'll get to know your piggy. If you get really grossed out about it, have a word with your vets nurses. Mine are very good, they may be able to do this for you, if you promise to stick a donation in the pot. If your lucky then you won't have to do it a lot if at all.

If you lived near me I would do it for you. :)
 
naboosmummy said:
just checked the other thread...oh my goodness they can grow big i am well grossed out now....i want a girl piggie.........seriously people i wont be able to cope doing that at all....what am i goign to do?
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It's honestly not as bad as it seems, it takes me seconds to check his bits, doesn't really phase me to be honest. I've had worse things to do with them ( one had diarrhea so all of them got covered in it, I had to bath them which led to me being covered in it, trust me that was worse! )

It comes as part of the package I'm afraid, but you'll get used to it x
 
Aww don't get yourself worked up about it, it's really not a big deal. It's amazing what you'll find yourself doing for them!
 
I've had my neutered boar Sancho for about 5 months now and I check his 'number' every couple of weeks. I don't really touch it, I can see quite easily if it looks clean and healthy. Very occasionally he has a bit of hay stuck in there, so I just pull that out very gently for him. I have a wee girl too, and I often turn her over to have a look as well. Just to make sure her nipples are clean and not swollen and to feel for lumps. It's just part of the routine check up I give both my guineas every couple of weeks now and they don't mind at all, actually we all hate cutting nails much, much more! If there was something going on, it's good to know what everything is meant to look like. Then if it doesn't look the same, you'll know straight away that something is up, or needs your attention.
 
I check my boys every day :) I'm always on penis patrol :))

Whilst it is sometimes a very smelly job, I find it perversly interesting as well. Benny smuggles all sorts of strange things up his bum. I like to think he does it on purpose to surprise me :)) There's usually a hair or two to remove from the penis. It's really no big deal. People that have 'real' kids do much worse. haha.
 
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