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Weight Loss And Not Eating Hay

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piggies have been off theur food for about a week now which I put down to fussiness and just watched them but yesterday I thought they were eating propely again until I had the sudden thought to check under the hidey's and under Coco's hidey there was a hoard of half eaten food which I proply chucked out and got the scales out, Patchy thankfully put on weight. But Coco had lost 22gms. I weighed ger today and she's put on a gram so no further loss. She looks like her normal grumpy self (she's naturally grumpy) and popcorning all around the cage and all poo's are normal. Should I be concerned? I'm also concerned that they have gone off their hay and tried various of their favs and some new hay but they just arnt interested. Thankfully they ate all their veg this morning (checked under hidey's and all clear) and almost all of their pellets. Are they prone to going off their food like human's?
 
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piggies have been off theur food for about a week now which I put down to fussiness and just watched them but yesterday I thought they were eating propely again until I had the sudden thought to check under the hidey's and under Coco's hidey there was a hoard of half eaten food which I proply chucked out and got the scales out, Patchy thankfully put on weight. But Coco had lost 22gms. I weighed ger today and she's put on a gram so no further loss. She looks like her normal grumpy self (she's naturally grumpy) and popcorning all around the cage and all poo's are normal. Should I be concerned? I'm also concerned that they have gone off their hay and tried various of their favs and some new hay but they just arnt interested. Thankfully they ate all their veg this morning (checked under hidey's and all clear) and almost all of their pellets. Are they prone to going off their food like human's?
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Not if she is her normal active self and is not showing any signs of being in pain or having a tummy upset!

You need to be concerned if the weight loss is getting a bit more with every day or if she is suddenly losing 50g or more (in the second case, please see a vet promptly). 20g is well within the daily natural weight variance between a full/empty tummy/bladder, which can make the weight go up an down for around 30g during the course of a day. That is why we recommend to always weigh at the same time in the feeding cycle like before you give breakfast or dinner; this helps to keep the weight swings in a day out of consideration as much as possible.
 
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Not if she is her normal active self and is not showing any signs of being in pain or having a tummy upset!

You need to be concerned if the weight loss is getting a bit more with every day or if she is suddenly losing 50g or more (in the second case, please see a vet promptly). 20g is well within the daily natural weight variance between a full/empty tummy/bladder, which can make the weight go up an down for around 30g during the course of a day. That is why we recommend to always weigh at the same time in the feeding cycle like before you give breakfast or dinner; this helps to keep the weight swings in a day out of consideration as much as possible.
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Thankyou for your reply.
 
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