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Help. Discharge from my female after accident

Cara-milk

Cara-milk

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Hi, I need help.

To start with, I feel horrible. The other day I was stepping into my female's enclosure and she ran under my foot. I was already putting my foot down when she ran under, and I ended up standing on her. She squealed loudly, and a minute later there was some blood on her cardboard box. She peed about 15mins after and there was pink stuff in it, I'm assuming blood. This happend on Saturday. I watched her closely and she seems to be ok. Eating, drinking, toitleting fine. She doesn't seem to be in pain, and I have put her in a box to watch her closely and so she doesn't get stressed by my other girls. She has a 2 week old baby, so I checked her milk and she still has milk. Earlier she jumped out of the box, and as i picked her up, I noticed her bottom was a little wet. I looked and there was white stuff on her ...
I did smell what was on my hand, and it just smelled like pee. I don't remember ever seeing this though.
I'll try and send a picture. Is this bad and how bad is it? She also has milky stuff in her eye sometimes. I read that it helps them clean themselves?

As kindly as possible, please do not tell me to go to the vet. I need information on how to help her from home. We can not afford to take her to the vet.
 

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I’m so sorry to hear this happened.

I have to be honest though, we cannot advise you on any way to help at home as we do not know what might be wrong - we can’t check her and aren’t qualified to make any diagnosis of any issue or know the extent of any injuries following the accident.
We can, legally, only ever suggest you see a vet.
Otherwise the only advice we can give is to follow emergency care of daily weight checks and syringe feeding as necessary but have to make it clear that these can never replace a vet check.

Health and Illness - Important Information re. our advice in this section
Emergency and Crisis Care as well as Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment
 
Just checking, is the 2 week old baby still with her?
I'm really sorry this has happened, but I can only agree with Piggies&buns' advice.
 
ScrufflesRules said:
Just checking, is the 2 week old baby still with her?
I'm really sorry this has happened, but I can only agree with Piggies&buns' advice.
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Yes the baby is still with her.. She doesn't like being away from mum..

Piggies&buns said:
I’m so sorry to hear this happened.

I have to be honest though, we cannot advise you on any way to help at home as we do not know what might be wrong - we can’t check her and aren’t qualified to make any diagnosis of any issue or know the extent of any injuries following the accident.
We can, legally, only ever suggest you see a vet.
Otherwise the only advice we can give is to follow emergency care of daily weight checks and syringe feeding as necessary but have to make it clear that these can never replace a vet check.

Health and Illness - Important Information re. our advice in this section
Emergency and Crisis Care as well as Bridging Care until a Vet Appointment
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What is the best thing to syringe feed if needed? We only have milk formula for babies who need it...
She hasn't lost her appetite, still runs to her hay and eats it when it gets topped up. Still eats her veggies as well.
 
Cara-milk said:
Yes the baby is still with her.. She doesn't like being away from mum..


What is the best thing to syringe feed if needed? We only have milk formula for babies who need it...
She hasn't lost her appetite, still runs to her hay and eats it when it gets topped up. Still eats her veggies as well.
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If she needs to be syringe fed then it’s either a herbivore recovery feed such as oxbow critical care or the emergency measure is using her normal pellets and mushing them with water.
(She can’t have a milk replacement)

Make sure you are weighing her daily as it is the only way to monitor hay intake. You cannot gauge intake by eye
If she is not eating enough hay and is losing weight then it becomes even more important that she sees a vet as it indicates there is indeed a problem with her.

As it seems you have separated her (and baby) from her friends following the accident (if I’ve read that right), do note that you may not be able to reunite them until baby is weaned. Don’t forget any reintroduction has to be done on neutral territory
 
Hi

It could be a problem with the bladder or the womb? We can unfortunately not replace a vet, nor are we legally allowed to here in the UK.

Please try to keep her gently cleaned with a damp rag dipped into baby warm water and then gently dried (including the foot soles) to prevent urine scald and foot infections.

Make sure that you change the bedding 2-3 time daily so she is not sitting/standing in the wetness all the time.
 
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