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Guinea Pig bloat?

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That’s a good amount. Remember to weigh her when you get the scales.
 
This is all they had at my local store, should I stick with the original syringe or are these okay?
 

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She hasn’t lost any weight, when I went to the vet last month they said she was 3lbs
 

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last month is a long time to know what her weight has been doing. She may have lost and gained in that time, you can’t really know. You now need to weigh her again tomorrow morning. And the morning after. Use those weights to guide you with regards to syringe feeding. You want her at least maintaining.

Did you manage to get more feed into her? I think I would stick with the syringe you had as it’s smaller. I got the tiny syringes off Amazon. Let me see if I can find a link for you.

Something like the below is good.
https://www.amazon.com/1ml-Plastic-...9Y2xpY2tSZWRpcmVjdCZkb05vdExvZ0NsaWNrPXRydWU=
 
Okay I made a mistake so I had to put her inside a box to be able to weigh her because she does not stay still so the box equals 7.1 ounces plus with her inside the box it equals 3 lbs & 6.3 ounces, so that means she’s 2 lbs & so she did lose weight so do I just keep her on the 40 ml & monitor her weight to see if she gains it back or should I up it?
 
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Okay I made a mistake so I had to put her inside a box to be able to weigh her because she does not stay still so the box equals 7.1 ounces plus with her inside the box it equals 3 lbs & 6.3 ounces, so that means she’s 2 lbs & so she did lose weight so do I just keep her on the 40 ml & monitor her weight to see if she gains it back or should I up it?
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As I said, you need to weigh in grams. We don’t use lbs and oz in this country so for us to advise you, we are going to need to do Google conversions, so we won’t necessarily be giving you completely accurate information.

As we have also said, how much you feed depends on how much she loses at her next weight check. You need to weigh her again 24 hours after this weight check. Because you haven’t been weighing her yourself at home, you are going to be behind the ball as you now need to build up a picture of her weight fluctuations.
so, weigh her again tomorrow. If she has lost weight again tomorrow from the weight check you have just done then you need to syringe feed more than 40ml.
Then you weigh hEd again on Sunday - If she has lost weigh again from ssturdays weight check, then you still need to feed even more than you did the previous days. And this is so on and so forth. You will need to weigh her and syringe feed her enough every day until she is eating enough hay on her own. Only at that point can you stop syringe feeding.
Ae can’t tell you how much it will be because we don’t have an accurate up to date weight loss picture.
You only know you have found the right amount of syringe feed to give each day when her weight remains stable at each daily weight check.

However, as a rough idea until you get a few daily weight checks done, so far, if she weighed 3lb a month ago and she now weighs 2lbs, then that converts to weight loss of around 450g in a month which is an absolute huge amount to have lost.
Anything over 50g of loss requires action and is of concern. As you can see she has lost a considerable amount more than 50g. So as a rough guide, as I say, until you get tomorrows weight check done, you are going to need to feed a lot more than 40ml a day. I’d be aiming for more than 60ml today and then you will need to review it again tomorrow.
You are first looking to stop her daily weight loss at this point with syringe feeding.
She will not regain all the lost weight and get back up to where she was - you say 3lbs , so she was roughly 1350g - probably for weeks potentially months now And that will only happen once health issues have been dealt with and she can eat properly again on her own. As a caveat, while she still has health issues she may not regain weight and I can only say to you to seek help in getting her seen by a vet. I know it’s not easy but she has lost so much weight that it is very concerning
 
Okay I put it to grams the box weighs 198 grams, I put her inside & it equals to 1557
 
Grams will also be much easier to work with in general, as they are more precise and you won't be dealing with pounds and ounces, just grams.

If I'm reading this correctly, piggy+box weighed 3lb 6.3oz (54.3oz, 1539.4g), and the box weighs 7.1oz, so piggy weights 2lbs 15.2oz (47.2oz, 1338g). A month ago she weighed 3lb (48oz, 1360.8g), though that value lacks significant figures, so could be rounded. If we take her to have been exactly 3lbs at the vet, that's a difference of about 22 grams. That's relatively negligible for a month on different scales ... that could be the difference of full/empty tummy and/or bladder.

I recommend taring the scale with the box on it, so when you weigh her, you don't need to subtract it off, you just get her weight as the readout.
 
Ohh okay I will do as soon as possible, I would do that right now but she’s eating the mushed up pellets & grass, I want her to be eating as much as possible on her own because there has been a delay but it’s slightly getting better, I put the box on top of the scale because she doesn’t want to stay on the scale so I thought it would be the same if I put the scale inside the box & put her on top
 
The box is an excellent vessel to hold her for weighing. Scales have a tare feature for just this type of purpose - to zero out the vessel holding what one is trying to weigh. I have a plastic tub for my girls because it was a convenient size.
 
As above, you need to tare the scale when you put the box on it - set it to 0. Then pop her in and note down the weight. I think given she hasn’t been weighed since last month, it’s difficult to know what is normal for her.

If I use the calculations for lb/oz, she weighed in at 1338g but when you weigh in grams she is 1359g. Let us see what she weighs in the morning as it is becoming somewhat confusing with the two weights.
 
As you see here the box weighs 0, then when I put her in the box it weighed to 1351 grams
 

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Just keep offering her syringe feeds throughout the day and weigh in the mornings. That should give a better idea of what’s going on. Although there’s been weight loss since last month, it’s not a significant amount. How are her poos looking?
 
They pretty much look the same as the pictures I’ve shared, some look a bit bigger but with holes in it.
 
I think that this forum has reached the point where we have given you all the information you require in order to help your piggy. I doubt there is much more we can offer by way of help, so it’s probably best to close this thread.
 
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Okay I put it to grams the box weighs 198 grams, I put her inside & it equals to 1557
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Your scales have a "Tare" button, so the easiest way is to put the container on the scale and switch it on, before placing your piggy in the container, or press Tare after putting the empty container on the scale (to reset it to 0)
 
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