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Beautifulmess

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I need to know what veg gives a pig vit d, i think this is what they get from eating their soft pellets, my pig is impacted and can't eat them so he's lacking a vit d and is feeling poorly.
 
There are no vegetable sources of Vit D3, it is added to dry foods though. I think Vit D helps with the absorption of calcium.

I believe it's particular B Vitamins that are obtained from eating caecal pellets though....?

How do you mean he is feeling poorly? It's not sure to be directly related to the impaction so worth looking further into it.
 
I'm dealing with my rodentologist, he's on 0.2 calpol a day and we thought it was because of a dodgy leg or maybe arteritus, it went away, he came off calpol and was fine for a while and now he's back to look puffed up, not getting up very well and feeling very skinny and sometimes cold. He eats, drinks and is cleaned out regular, he stills walks about and seems normal with how he moves just a lot slower, his breathing seems strained and he feels stiff when I pick him up, like it's an effort to be held then he sleeps when I'm holding him.
 
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