How Do You Keep A White Pig, White?

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Hello, my 4 month old piggie is constantly getting his butt yellow because he's a white pig. How can I try to keep him clean?
 
We have a white fluffy piggie, keeping his fur around his bottom short is key, and also keeping their bedding/ hay/ where ever they go to the loo clean and fresh too!
For example we use pee pads in the pigs favourite places to sit so they can be easily changed out, and we use litter trays for hay which we change out daily.

And then every so often they will need a bath….
You can just give them a little bum bath too!
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rp1993 said:
We have a white fluffy piggie, keeping his fur around his bottom short is key, and also keeping their bedding/ hay/ where ever they go to the loo clean and fresh too!
For example we use pee pads in the pigs favourite places to sit so they can be easily changed out, and we use litter trays for hay which we change out daily.

And then every so often they will need a bath….
You can just give them a little bum bath too!
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Okay, I believe I have an American Short Hair so he won't need a haircut but I do put his hay right above his litter box. I have him a bath on Sunday because he ended up becoming a very rare white piggie with a very yellow butt. But then that night, he got his butt yellow, again.
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It is going to be part and parcel of having white piggies. Other than keeping bedding clean, (hair on the back end trimmed in long haired piggies) and the odd wipe (don’t bathe often) then isn’t really much else you can do
 
Interesting. I wonder if he might improve at cleaning himself as he gets a little older and wiser? My Parlsey has a fluffy white butt which occasionally gets dirty. As soon as I notice and start to think about giving her an extra bath, she cleans it up herself. Maybe she's just tidy though.

Pee pads in popular spots definitely do help keep things cleaner. I wish I had even more of them.

I've found WaterWipes brand baby wipes are nice for all-purpose piggie wiping. Might help cut back on full blown bottom baths.
 
I tried to get a picture of her tidy butt for you, but she didn't want to show the camera her pure white posterior fluff. 😂 It's all her own handiwork though, I think it's been like a year since I bathed her.

And goodness I can see from this picture she needs a nail trim again, her nails grow especially fast.
 

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Featheryfriend said:
I tried to get a picture of her tidy butt for you, but she didn't want to show the camera her pure white posterior fluff. 😂 It's all her own handiwork though, I think it's been like a year since I bathed her.

And goodness I can see from this picture she needs a nail trim again, her nails grow especially fast.
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I wish I could love and ha ha at the same time! She's so adorable.
 
i clip the hair around the bum with an eletric clipper on my white piggies.it seems it does not discriminate between long hair or short hair,i have about ten white bum piggies and most seem to sport a yellow bum.i clean out bedding daily,so i do as much as i can.
 
I have 4 piggies with white bums and one keeps herself very clean but the others are usually sporting pee stains or grease gland stains even half an hour after a bum bath and trim.
In an evolutionary context, piggies were never supposed to be white- but they were supposed to smell of piggy so their friends can identify them!
As long as you keep their cage clean and none of them have to sit in their own pee if they dont want to, then its just a thing that happens- just choose darker coloured fleece backgrounds for the instagram cute piggy photos then they look ok :)
 
My late pig Buttercup had a white rear like my profile pic, and she was mostly short hair, but long hair at the very very end, and it would trail behind her like coat tails or peacock feathers! She stayed mostly white on her bum except for the underside (which was yellow) , and there's not much you can do except keep wherever you keep them clean.
 
Crystal.L said:
So jealous. I guess my piggie is like a little boy who like to play in mud or in this case, sit in his own pee.
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Hmm, he is an old boy that frankly eats, sleeps and poops in one spot (unless Jenny is in season in which case he gets a new lease of life 😂) so I think it might be good genes 😂. Like some people can eat all the cake and still wear their jeans….
 
Interesting my pure white piggy, Opal is always pristine clean. She’s never once had a bath in the 3 years I’ve had her!
She does get a bit of an upset tummy sometimes from too much grass or veg, but nothing that a little wipe with a damp paper towel doesn’t fix. And I’ve probably only had to do that 2 or 3 times.9F66237D-4712-4597-A07A-BB73977156D8.webp9EFFE7C9-E82D-4403-9B28-744A1BD11C1E.webp
 
Hannah_xx said:
Interesting my pure white piggy, Opal is always pristine clean. She’s never once had a bath in the 3 years I’ve had her!
She does get a bit of an upset tummy sometimes from too much grass or veg, but nothing that a little wipe with a damp paper towel doesn’t fix. And I’ve probably only had to do that 2 or 3 times.View attachment 179028View attachment 179029
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How old is Opal? She looks a little like the size of my pig and he's only 4 months.
 
Crystal.L said:
How old is Opal? She looks a little like the size of my pig and he's only 4 months.
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Opal is roughly rising 4years old. She’s a very small fully grown piggie because she had a very rough and malnourished start to life, I rescued her and her friend/sis hence why she’s so little.
 
Hannah_xx said:
Opal is roughly rising 4years old. She’s a very small fully grown piggie because she had a very rough and malnourished start to life, I rescued her and her friend/sis hence why she’s so little.
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I'm looking at your profile picture and I see that you have four piggies but there are two small ones. I can see that one is Opal and the other is her friend/sis?
 
Crystal.L said:
I'm looking at your profile picture and I see that you have four piggies but there are two small ones. I can see that one is Opal and the other is her friend/sis?
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Yes that’s right, Opal and her sis Olive are the two piggies in the middle :)
You can read more about them here on my thread if you like..
Hannah’s Herd thread!
 
Zara demonstrates her spotless bloomers (her long-haired friend Louise is not so lucky!)
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Some pigs are happy to lay in their own doings - I'm sure George enjoys the warmth of a damp bed!

Just as an FYI - It's always a good idea to keep an eye out for signs of UTI because one sign is constant dripping of wee which we've seen in girls as a 'dirty bottom' but usually in boys as a wet tummy. It's more easy to see in white piggies. If he's dry but just a bit stained that's pretty normal... if you find he's wet a lot as well as stained watch to see if he chirps when he pees, or hunches up, or get him to pee on a white towel and look for a pinkish tint (but scary orange is pretty normal too!) My previous girl picked up a UTI and I initially put it down as laying in a soily patch in the garden (which she did) because she used to come in at night filthy all over! Poor white piggies can't get away with anything!
 
Free Ranger said:
Zara demonstrates her spotless bloomers (her long-haired friend Louise is not so lucky!)
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Some pigs are happy to lay in their own doings - I'm sure George enjoys the warmth of a damp bed!

Just as an FYI - It's always a good idea to keep an eye out for signs of UTI because one sign is constant dripping of wee which we've seen in girls as a 'dirty bottom' but usually in boys as a wet tummy. It's more easy to see in white piggies. If he's dry but just a bit stained that's pretty normal... if you find he's wet a lot as well as stained watch to see if he chirps when he pees, or hunches up, or get him to pee on a white towel and look for a pinkish tint (but scary orange is pretty normal too!) My previous girl picked up a UTI and I initially put it down as laying in a soily patch in the garden (which she did) because she used to come in at night filthy all over! Poor white piggies can't get away with anything!
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Is a milky color normal? His pee is normally whitish but when I wipe it away, it's yellow.
 
Unlike people they absorb all the calcium in their gut and then pee out the excess - they need calcium because the teeth are always growing. Most piggies produce a milky looking pee to a greater or lesser extent.

If you start seeing really heavy deposits or gritty lumps it's a warning that either they're not getting enough water to flush things through cleanly or they're getting far too much calcium. The biggest culprit is the piggy pellets - seriously. You'll see it written a lot on the forum where a small quantity is recommended. If yours are keen on pellets put the water bottles next to the bowl as mine often flit between the two when they eat pellets. I've also got water bottles near the main hay pile but these are generally ignored. I use bottled 'soft' water (low calcium) as my tap water is very 'hard' (very high calcium) - this is pretty common in England (although parts of Scotland and Wales have lovely soft water!) There are low and high calcium veggies but you won't get far carefully rationing spinach leaves every week if they demolish a pellet mountain every night!
 
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