Rosehip
Junior Guinea Pig
Posting in a rush as we have an emergency appointment at 5, but Bluey is rather unwell :-(
Last night during cuddles she bled very slightly on me. Bright red blood no more than a pin prick amount, and was hiccupping and reaching under herself.
We always had doubts on the locum vets diagnosis of cysts, so hoped that this was the start of her labour and so made her comfortable and quietly watched her all night... I slept on the sofa... - slept she says! I lay on the sofa all night!
She cleaned herself up, had some food, water and hay and then went to sleep, no more blood, no labour or contractions....
She has been very quiet all day, although she has been eating/drinking/toileting as normal, so when I reached in for cuddle and clean out time I was concerned that she squeeled..
I picked her up and there is dried blood on her vulva and she is dirty on her skirt, the smell coming from her is the same smell I would be greeted with when going to a lambing with dead lambs inside of the ewe.
We are now convinced that both girls are pregnant and that the babies have died inside of them and they don't have the correct levels of hormones to induce labour normally.
We are seeing the boss vet, and I'll be asking if Oxytocyn will induce uterine contractions and resulting in labour for both girls, combined with either baytril or doxycycline for the infection resulting from the rotten fetus's (sorry, I know that's a bit TMI for some people!)
So Piper will accompany Bluey to the vets, and we will be getting to the bottom of this.... Poor babies.... In all my years of having piggies, all the years that I intentionally bred them, I have never had problems like this :-(
Love to all, will update when I can x
Last night during cuddles she bled very slightly on me. Bright red blood no more than a pin prick amount, and was hiccupping and reaching under herself.
We always had doubts on the locum vets diagnosis of cysts, so hoped that this was the start of her labour and so made her comfortable and quietly watched her all night... I slept on the sofa... - slept she says! I lay on the sofa all night!
She cleaned herself up, had some food, water and hay and then went to sleep, no more blood, no labour or contractions....
She has been very quiet all day, although she has been eating/drinking/toileting as normal, so when I reached in for cuddle and clean out time I was concerned that she squeeled..
I picked her up and there is dried blood on her vulva and she is dirty on her skirt, the smell coming from her is the same smell I would be greeted with when going to a lambing with dead lambs inside of the ewe.
We are now convinced that both girls are pregnant and that the babies have died inside of them and they don't have the correct levels of hormones to induce labour normally.
We are seeing the boss vet, and I'll be asking if Oxytocyn will induce uterine contractions and resulting in labour for both girls, combined with either baytril or doxycycline for the infection resulting from the rotten fetus's (sorry, I know that's a bit TMI for some people!)
So Piper will accompany Bluey to the vets, and we will be getting to the bottom of this.... Poor babies.... In all my years of having piggies, all the years that I intentionally bred them, I have never had problems like this :-(
Love to all, will update when I can x
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