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My guinea pig isn't walking and is in pain

Shania said:
There doesnt seem to be much of a differenve when i weighted them because of how light they are. They are less than 1 kg and are 3 month old...
One division is equal to 1 kg... And according to the internet they should be between 600g.. When i weight them are seem to be 500 g...
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They are the wrong type of scales to be using. You need kitchen scales.
 
Piggies&buns said:
Are they eating hay?
You can’t weigh them more than once per day as you will see great fluctuations so won’t get a true idea of what is really going on.
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Ohh okayy. Yes right now they are eating. The brown one is not eating hay by itself, i need to put him on my lap and give him the hay so that he eats it. He keeps wheeking for pellets but i try to give him hay. The other is eating the hay normally.
 
Shania said:
Ohh okayy. Yes right now they are eating. The brown one is not eating hay by itself, i need to put him on my lap and give him the hay so that he eats it. He keeps wheeking for pellets but i try to give him hay. The other is eating the hay normally.
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This isn’t good enough - he would have to sit on your lap all day and all night constantly being hand fed hay to eat enough of it. He needs to be eating it willingly by himself.
You need better scales which measure in 1 gram increments otherwise you are not going to know what is going on.
 
Piggies&buns said:
This isn’t good enough - he would have to sit on your lap all day and all night constantly being hand fed hay to eat enough of it. He needs to be eating it willingly by himself.
You need better scales which measure in 1 gram increments otherwise you are not going to know what is going on.
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Yess i understand. Okay. I'm doing the necessary to find the other scales.
 
Scales you can use in the kitchen when cooking are better. Can you ask your parents nicely to get some. Or can you get to a shop where they sell them? I don’t know what circumstances are there regarding coronavirus.

There is no ‘set’ weight for guinea pigs. You have to go by what yours weigh. How old are they again?
 
Siikibam said:
Scales you can use in the kitchen when cooking are better. Can you ask your parents nicely to get some. Or can you get to a shop where they sell them? I don’t know what circumstances are there regarding coronavirus.

There is no ‘set’ weight for guinea pigs. You have to go by what yours weigh. How old are they again?
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Theyy are 3 months old approximately. The brown one may be younger, but the seller doesnt remember their exact date of birth.
 
You said he’ll only eat hay if you sit him on your lap and feed him. If they’re not used to it they will eat it hesitantly.
 
Shania said:
He does eat by himself tho. He weeks a lot so that i give him the pellets. He just isn't used to eating hay.
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Eating pellets isn’t enough. Pellets should only make up 5% of their daily food intake, veg makes up 15% of their daily food intake which means the other 80% needs to be hay. If he isn’t eating hay, then he isn’t eating enough

All we can tell you is that

1 - your piggies urgently need a vet. They simply won’t get better without medical care and treatment
2 - they need to be eating hay all day, every day independently. If he only eats it while you are holding him and feeding it to him, then he won’t be eating enough,
3 - you must weigh them every day with a good set of kitchen scales to ensure they gain weight each day. If they don’t gain weight they aren’t eating enough. Not eating enough is a sign of illness which means they need a vet. Syringe feeding keeps them alive while medicine and treatment makes them better. Syringe feeding, eating hay, probiotics alone won’t cure them

There isn’t anything more we can tell you. The rest of it comes down to having good vet care and treatment
 
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Once you get the (kitchen) scales, you will need to weigh them at the same time every morning. They need to either stay the same weight or putting on. If they’re losing you will have to think about syringe feeding as in my previous post. But I would do it anyway simply because they’re small and aren’t eating enough.
 
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