Eriathwens piggies

I decided to change my hay supplier, I had never heard of the Hay Box company before but it came up in a sponsored advert on Facebook so I checked them out. This is the greenest hay i've ever seen! Usually 10kg last me 2 weeks but I don't think this will XD they've eaten loads of it already!

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Poor Leonard has been to the vets today, with what I first suspected was a UTI but what turned out to be leg pain. We suspect he is developing early arthritis, poor boy is only 2.5 years old.. He has metacam for the week then we'll go from there if it helps or not. I had a feel when we got him and his right back leg is definitely stiff and a bit crunchy.

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Try oxbow support tablets. For joints..it has glucosamine. Ive read reviews on amazon that it is brilliant
 
Good idea! I'll order some :) typically I have every other one they do except the joint support ones! I had hoped with my oldest only being 3 I wouldnt need them yet but I guess I was wrong.
 
Eriathwen said:
Good idea! I'll order some :) typically I have every other one they do except the joint support ones! I had hoped with my oldest only being 3 I wouldnt need them yet but I guess I was wrong.
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They are rock hard tablets, and they contain molassis ( syrup i think) but you only give one a day, i didnt have my old boar on them long enough to know if they helped. He had arthiritis at the back of his spine. It didnt really bother him too much. I had to get a low sided nugget fish for him and a longer spout water bottle
 
Poor Leonard, this cold weather won't be helping any piggies with joint pain, healing wheeks (especially from Clover with her old leg break injury, she's been a bit quiet today so I might need to be thinking about loxicom on cold days over the winter and a snugglesafe or two).
 
Thanks guys! He's doing really well, considering. I've set up the oil filled radiator in their room as it was getting chilly up there, hes been pooping with no pain at all really although he is chewing at himself likely from pain or discomfort. He is much happier to walk about though which is good to see! His hair isnt so fluffed up either :)

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I use glucosamine so that my hands and fingers work. The Doctor said that trials had proved that it wasn't worth taking so I stopped taking it and my hands started to seize up. When I started taking glucosamine again my hands and fingers unseized. It's good stuff. I now need acupuncture on my hands every 6-12 months when they start to get stiff again. This all stems from when I had rsi about 30 years ago. These things come back to haunt you.
 
It's such a relief to hear that glucosamine works! I'm still waiting for the Oxbow joint support to arrive but I noticed the urinary ones I have also contain it, although only half the amount. So far he seems at least somewhat more comfortable on those :) the metacam doesn't seem to be a high enough dose but we'll be discussing that with the Vets on Thursday unless anything happens between now and then.
 
Merab's Slave said:
How is Leonard doing?
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I've just done a hay top up, he did a little popcorn and dragged his bum all over it so hes a lot more comfortable than he has been thankfully :) although I've not seen him pee or poop this evening so I'm not sure of he's still painful doing that.
 
Poor little man is worse this morning, we have another appointment in about 4 hours..hopefully they can get him more comfortable, there's no way I can leave him like this until the end of the week when we were meant to get back in touch.
 
Leonard is booked to go back in tomorrow for xrays to see what's going on, she's thinking maybe a bladder stone at this point as the pain is only when going to the toilet and not while walking around. It'll be done while conscious which is great, he's apparently going to be a tortilla pig in the sock thing they've got to restrain them..I wish I could see that, bless him!

We've told him once he's feeling better he is to go straight out to find himself a job to pay all these vets fees! XD
I'm crossing everything for no stones, the thought of surgery scares the hell out of me, it's been 13 years since any of my pigs have needed an operation so it's not something I'm familiar with.
 
Sounds good! For all those vet fees it'll have to be very expensive!
 
Eriathwen said:
He's got a PhD in grass maintenance :lol!:I'm fairly certain he could trim and fertilise plenty of lawns.
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Sophie Blane said:
Sounds good! For all those vet fees it'll have to be very expensive!
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Piggy poop is one of the best lawn fertilisers so of course Leonard will charge loads. You have to pay if you want the best!
 
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