Young piggy with hard stomach

[Dan Angelis]

Get some digital kitchen scales. Make sure you tare (set to zero) with the bowl on it then sit them in.

I’m afraid they really need the variety in their veg so you’ll have to suffer silently. You can give them the staples and completely cut out the carrot, it’s not necessary.

I would take that girl off veg until her poos have been normal for at least 48 hours. Then try her on a sprig of coriander a day.

I’ll try to get the coriander and kitchen scale thanks for the help

 

[Dan Angelis]

A healthy piggy needs veg daily. Yes it can add up, but it is what they need. Do you have access to dog pee free grass, do you have a garden? If so, grass is their natural diet so a good thing to give to them.

If she is having diarrhoea regularly, then all your other piggies need to have veg daily but you do need to be careful with the poorly piggy. It isn’t normal to have diarrhoea so something isn’t quite right with her.

you need to get a normal digital kitchen scale and pop your piggy in a container on the scale and weigh them all every week. Keep a record of their weekly weights so you know they are well. If a piggy loses weight beyond daily fluctuation then you need to step in syringe feed and see a vet. All the guides I linked in a couple of replies ago, give you all the information you need

She is my first and only guinea pig that is having problems with diarrhea so it’s a bit confusing why the others aren’t having it like her

 

[Siikibam]

We can’t help you there. It needs further investigation by a vet. It may be lettuce is giving her a dodgy yum or it could be something else. Whatever it is needs looking into. Don’t allow the vets to fob you off. If necessary go elsewhere for a second opinion.
Guinea Lynx :: GL's Vet List

 

[Piggies&buns]

The others aren’t having diarrhoea because they are not having digestive problems, whereas your poorly one has clearly got something going on. Please do give the others a wider variety of vegetables in their diet, introducing new veg slowly. Lettuce twice a week isn’t enough. They need vitamin c rich veg every day as they can’t produce their own vit c (Although hay does also contain vit c as well). Ensure their diet is mostly hay, one cup of a variety of veg per piggy per day, and then one tablespoon only of pellets each day (don’t let them have access to pellets all the time, they aren’t good for them)

 

[Dan Angelis]

We can’t help you there. It needs further investigation by a vet. It may be lettuce is giving her a dodgy yum or it could be something else. Whatever it is needs looking into. Don’t allow the vets to fob you off. If necessary go elsewhere for a second opinion.
Guinea Lynx :: GL's Vet List

Thank for the list I’ll make sure to make a visit at one of the recommendations

 

[Dan Angelis]

The others aren’t having diarrhoea because they are not having digestive problems, whereas your poorly one has clearly got something going on. Please do give the others a wider variety of vegetables in their diet, introducing new veg slowly. Lettuce twice a week isn’t enough. They need vitamin c rich veg every day as they can’t produce their own vit c (Although hay does also contain vit c as well). Ensure their diet is mostly hay, one cup of a variety of veg per piggy per day, and then one tablespoon only of pellets each day (don’t let them have access to pellets all the time, they aren’t good for them)

I’ll try to give them more veggies. And they do have some vitamin C cookies made by Oxbow

 

[Siikibam]

It’s better they get the vitamin c from veg and (plenty of) hay. I don’t know how many of those cookies they can realistically eat. They also contain other things that shouldn’t be part of a guinea pig’s diet. I saw molasses and oat flour or something similar.
The variety in veg provides other vitamins and minerals as well.

 

[Dan Angelis]

It’s better they get the vitamin c from veg and (plenty of) hay. I don’t know how many of those cookies they can realistically eat. The variety in veg provides other vitamins and minerals as well.

They only eat them once a day recommended by the vet

 

[Siikibam]

I would look to feed veg daily rather than hay cookies. I’d give maybe once a week, though naturally occurring vitamin c is better. It’s up to you as their slave though

 

[Dan Angelis]

I would look to feed veg daily rather than hay cookies. I’d give maybe once a week, though naturally occurring vitamin c is better. It’s up to you as their slave though

Haha so true! I’ll try my best to get veggies for them