Heyli
New Born Pup
This will be a long post so, thank you, for reading....
I got Wilbur, my 9 month old boar, castrated on 11th October with the view to get him some female company as he is currently a lone pig.
Wilbur decided he didn't want his stitches in and chewed them out, then he decided he wasn't keen on the staples the vet put in after that and pulled those out. He had to wear a cone for three weeks to protect his wound once the vet internally stitched him and glued the wound.
When I took the cone off there was dry skin but I thought this would improve once the cone was off. Imagine my horror, when I can back after an hour to find he had scratched his neck open so badly he had damaged two layers of skin and it was bloody and incredibly sore. This required Flamazine cream applications twice daily, baytril twice daily, metacam daily and bandages changed twice daily.
Once his neck had healed (although bald where the wound had been) I took off the bandages and he instantly chewed a new line of sores further down in the middle of his back. Once more, the bandages went back on, cream, antibiotics etc. continued while this healed.
Every time I took the bandages off he was scratching and biting at his back but left his neck alone.
I have been to the vets more times than I can count and she is perplexed and is contacting an exotic vet in Brighton to get some advice.
In the meantime I bought some Manuka and Neem shampoo from Gorgeous Guineas and gave him a bath which really helped his back and he has appeared to stop biting that now and I left the bandages off for about an hour and a half. However, I saw him frantically going at his belly. I put some Neem Soothe Gel on it but it did nothing to stop him and he has once again made it sore and I have had to clean it and bandage it again.
I am really in a catch 22 situation and don't know what else to do.
I am awaiting some more Xeno Mini 50 to treat any possible mites but I think its more a case of OCD than mites because his back and neck is no longer itchy.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do/try next. I have a rescue sow lined up and ready to bond with him which I think would really help him as he would have something else to focus on rather than over grooming/biting himself.
Any advice greatly received.
H
I got Wilbur, my 9 month old boar, castrated on 11th October with the view to get him some female company as he is currently a lone pig.
Wilbur decided he didn't want his stitches in and chewed them out, then he decided he wasn't keen on the staples the vet put in after that and pulled those out. He had to wear a cone for three weeks to protect his wound once the vet internally stitched him and glued the wound.
When I took the cone off there was dry skin but I thought this would improve once the cone was off. Imagine my horror, when I can back after an hour to find he had scratched his neck open so badly he had damaged two layers of skin and it was bloody and incredibly sore. This required Flamazine cream applications twice daily, baytril twice daily, metacam daily and bandages changed twice daily.
Once his neck had healed (although bald where the wound had been) I took off the bandages and he instantly chewed a new line of sores further down in the middle of his back. Once more, the bandages went back on, cream, antibiotics etc. continued while this healed.
Every time I took the bandages off he was scratching and biting at his back but left his neck alone.
I have been to the vets more times than I can count and she is perplexed and is contacting an exotic vet in Brighton to get some advice.
In the meantime I bought some Manuka and Neem shampoo from Gorgeous Guineas and gave him a bath which really helped his back and he has appeared to stop biting that now and I left the bandages off for about an hour and a half. However, I saw him frantically going at his belly. I put some Neem Soothe Gel on it but it did nothing to stop him and he has once again made it sore and I have had to clean it and bandage it again.
I am really in a catch 22 situation and don't know what else to do.
I am awaiting some more Xeno Mini 50 to treat any possible mites but I think its more a case of OCD than mites because his back and neck is no longer itchy.
Does anyone have any advice on what I can do/try next. I have a rescue sow lined up and ready to bond with him which I think would really help him as he would have something else to focus on rather than over grooming/biting himself.
Any advice greatly received.
H