Guinea Pig gave birth after effects

[Aim]

Hello everyone! My guinea pig just gave birth 5 days ago with a litter of 3. She was fine a few days ago, but now she has not been eating and drinking, so I give water to her thru syringe. Furthermore, she sways whenever she walks and as I observed her, I think it is due to her hind legs which have lost strength to support her, and she had been losing weight. Is this normal? Currently, there is no vet near us, for exotic pets, and the vet we have gone to did not know what to do. Any advice or other things I can do to support her? We have given her veggies, but she does not eat it. What should I do?

 

[Wiebke]

Hello everyone! My guinea pig just gave birth 5 days ago with a litter of 3. She was fine a few days ago, but now she has not been eating and drinking, so I give water to her thru syringe. Furthermore, she sways whenever she walks and as I observed her, I think it is due to her hind legs which have lost strength to support her, and she had been losing weight. Is this normal? Currently, there is no vet near us, for exotic pets, and the vet we have gone to did not know what to do. Any advice or other things I can do to support her? We have given her veggies, but she does not eat it. What should I do?

Hi!

Your sow sounds very ill. she may have an infection of the womb lining (pyometra, often better known as 'childbed fever' in humans) which is unfortunately fatal if not treated promptly with antibiotics or she may have badly damaged her pelvis during birth.

She needs syringing fibre asap. You can soak her pellets in warm water and mix it with some potato and sugar free baby puree as a less than ideal emergency stop-gap measure. Hay based recovery formula would be better but I am not sure whether and how quickly you could get hold of that. When feeding mushed pellets, you need to cut off the tip of syringe just below where it widens in order to allow the rougher fibre to pass through but to keep the plunger, which pushes the contents out of the syringe still being stopped from falling out.
A guinea pig that is not eating and is unable to process much feed in one go needs feeding every 2 hours round the clock (every 3 hours at night) in order to get ideally as close to 60 ml into her as possible. With the very ill, you are aiming at 40 ml.
Please read the advice in these links here to save your mother's life if at all possible:
Not Eating, Weight Loss And The Importance Of Syringe Feeding Fibre
Emergency, Crisis and Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment (contains more improvising care tips)
Complete Syringe Feeding Guide
Probiotics, Recovery Foods And Vitamin C: Overview With Product Links
A Practical and Sensitive Guide to Dying, Terminal Illness and Euthanasia in Guinea Pigs

Here is what you can do for the babies in terms of care and supplement feeding in order to try to save their lives, too, as their mother won't be able to feed them; water doesn't contain any calories:
After-birth-mother-and-baby-care
Hand-rearing-and-support-feeding-orphans-and-tiny-babies
Sexing-separating-baby-boars-and-rehoming-babies

All the best!

 

[Aim]

Thank you so much!!