Eriathwens piggies

Thankyou! I still can't settle on a name for the lovely lady, I'm sure something will come to me eventually. So many options but nothing seems to suit her. I'm not sure how much more I cant help her front feet, I'm not sure anymore what is poop and whats nail, its all the same colour and seems to hurt, and I've never dealt with bumblefoot, I'm not sure how close Olly is to that point so, I'm probably going to see if my vet has appointments this coming week for both of them.
They've settled so well though, already taking veggies and pea flakes from my hand 🙂
 
I’m sorry you lost your grandmother. Sending hugs
I'm sure you’ll have the new piggies settled in and in full health in no time.
(Oliver looks like my Dexter!)
 
Thankyou
Got them both booked in at the vets at the end of next week, not sure their feet will heal just with good care, bumblefoot worries me as ive never dealt with it or really savvy about the stages of it so better safe than sorry, plus her front right foot is quite mangled and I've got all the poop off that I can.

Anyway, in order to make her an appointment, she needed a name. So all the suggestions I've had from people went into a hat and one was picked at random.

Meet...Fern 🥰
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Shes such a sweetie, although she keeps chewing at her poor foot, it must hurt. Not entirely sure what can be done about them except removing the effected nails.. but I'm not a vet so hopefully he will have more ideas than I do.

Took a few pictures while I was cleaning out, theyre so distracting, no wonder it takes me 2 hours to do 🤣

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Now that they've settled a little, they're doing really well. Ferns cheeky little personality is coming through, shes a right wriggler and has started nipping a little bit but as with Olly, we can work on that. Oliver has stopped biting and loves a chin scratch. He also loves getting kisses but he would never admit it to anyone 🤣 Theyre soft and shiny, and continuing to gain weight. Oliver has a vet appointment tomorrow to have his feet seen, his back end flops to one side every so often and he drinks twice as much as is normal but I'm hoping that is the novelty of having clean water and nothing untoward. Panda also goes in tomorrow to be spayed and have the lump on her shoulder removed.
Ferns appointment is Friday to check out her little front feet to see what we can do about her deformed and damaged nails and toes.

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Busy day today! Dropped Panda off at 9am for her spay and lump/cyst removal on her shoulder, shes home and doing well 🙂 Oliver had an appointment at 9:30am, his feet are doing well and should be fine with proper care, he has flopped to the side a few times but we're hoping that's because he's gained weight on weak legs and that'll sort itself out as he gains condition. My vet is happy to castrate him when he's stronger so he can either remain with his sister and live with Tilly, Hazel and her, or he can go in the female herd, lots of options for him. Unfortunately his stumbling could be a metabolic bone disease like Leonard and Shelly suffers with.
Just Fern to go tomorrow!

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Good to hear that Panda’s doing well. That’s a very neat wound on her shoulder
I’m sure that with your love and care Oliver will gradually build up his strength.
 
Aw, glad everything went well at the vets today, and hope it all goes well for little Fern tomorrow x
 
Its been a bit of a week with the new pigs, they dropped some weight, struggled to regain any at all for a while, there is surprisingly little information online for rehabilitating emaciated guinea pigs so I've been loosely following what is done for horses, by getting lots of prebiotics, probiotics and rehydrating them, which seems to slowly be helping as weight is now sticking on them quite well, 2nd day in a row now we have had gains from them. In total Oliver has gained 100g and Fern 130g. Theyre strange piggies, they prefer to lick things off the end of the syringe, if you try to put it in their mouths they get really stroppy 😅 which ends up with them getting covered in whatever it is I'm giving them. They both will come up for their dual care pellets and take them from me, their constant desire for food is making them very easy to tame 😅

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Bill & Ted said:
How lovely they are settling in with you and your other piggies X
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Theyre doing so well, bless them. Fern is in for an exciting weekend, her quarantine is up today so when I clean them out I will be bonding her to Tilly and Hazel, hopefully they will help bring her around a little quicker too :) Oliver has a little way to go until he has settled enough and gained enough condition to be neutered, but I imagine it won't be too many more weeks!
 
Unfortunately Ferns bonding has been pushed back, she came into season Friday, at least thats what I thought she did, she had a mucous discharge from are bits and bobs. Saturday and today she has lost weight, 75g in total. I'm concerned that rather than a season, she has potentially had a miscarriage, so she's getting more time to rebuild the weight and settle. I'm not sure the stress of bonding will be worth the benefit of having cagemates when she can already see and hear other piggies.
It could also just simply be guinea pigs have a bit of a wall they hit at 800g when they've been starved. Poppets weight went up and down as has Olivers at a similar weight. If she loses more weight by tomorrow I'll have her seen again by the vet. Bit of a downer but its always up and down rehabilitating neglected pigs :(
 
Eriathwen said:
Unfortunately Ferns bonding has been pushed back, she came into season Friday, at least thats what I thought she did, she had a mucous discharge from are bits and bobs. Saturday and today she has lost weight, 75g in total. I'm concerned that rather than a season, she has potentially had a miscarriage, so she's getting more time to rebuild the weight and settle. I'm not sure the stress of bonding will be worth the benefit of having cagemates when she can already see and hear other piggies.
It could also just simply be guinea pigs have a bit of a wall they hit at 800g when they've been starved. Poppets weight went up and down as has Olivers at a similar weight. If she loses more weight by tomorrow I'll have her seen again by the vet. Bit of a downer but its always up and down rehabilitating neglected pigs :(
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Aw sorry for poor Fern hope she starts to regain her weight soon, it always seems to drop off so quickly and takes so much longer for them to regain it
 
It’s always difficult with piggies who come to you in such poor condition. She’s in the best hands. Sending her healing vibes.
 
Thanks, I'm going to be devastated if we can't help her, shes such a character. But I'm still hopeful, she does eat really well, she just needs time. Just frustrating, it shouldn't have got to this point, why can't people just feed them properly!
Cant imagine what kind of pain you need to be in to chew off your own toes, as shes calming down I'm able to get better looks at whats going on, ive been trying to slowly trim them down little by little, I have no idea what to even do with some of them. The outer one isn't even a toe anymore.
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I've had Tilly out for a bit, bless her shes been doing the odd tear shaped poops here and there so shes got some critical care to try to sort that out which seems to be working! She sat and watched some of The Hobbit with us 😅 3 times I got peed on! Lol

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Hope those poor little tootsies, where on earth do you start, fingers crossed you can sort them out, how terrible for her x
 
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