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New Born Pup
*** Hello lovely piggy people - just a warning in case anyone's eating or such: poop pictures ahead! ***
We are worried and very confused about our 2 year old female guinea pigs mystery poops. We have tried to read about anything similar everywhere, but unfortunately still clueless, so hoping someone here might have any advice?
Long story short, we adopted our little Luma back in December, and unfortunately due to the COVID-19 situation she has not been to a vet with us for any general checkups, as we live in Wales and have no cavy-savvy vets nearby. (After learning the hard way with another piggy, we now only make trips to Northampton to see Simon Maddock at the Cat and Rabbit Clinic).
All three of our piggies have sensitive tummies to too much/particular veg, so we stay on the side of caution with around 30g of veg per piggy per day, with no brocolli, celery or green beans as we have had tummy upsets in the past with those. They of course have unlimited hay (timothy and meadow mix), with a tablespoon per piggy of Burgess pellets each day. They also haven't had any access to grass recently.
But this time, Luma's "bad" poops are very different: we have attached pictures below (hopefully they have attached properly!) and they mostly only happen at night (during the day she does "normal" ones). The abnormal night poops look like her normal poops, but with a soft, squishy green layer around them. These have been happening for around a week: we took her off veg straight away, have been giving probiotics in the water, and we have been weighing daily with no major change (@1040g). She is mostly acting herself (still eating, drinking, popcorning on floor time).
We noticed around 3 days ago that her belly looked a bit bigger and was harder to the touch, so after reading other posts on this forum as we were worried about bloat, we have been giving 2ml of gripe water a few times a day, with belly massages using an electric toothbrush. We have also given her poop soup (from her healthy sister Winnie) as that worked wonders when the piggies have had upset tummies before!
Unfortunately, whilst her tummy has "deflated" a little since we started the gripe water and massages, the mystery nighttime poops have stayed.
We were really just wondering if anyone had seen these types of poop before and have any suggestions of how we can help her whilst we try and figure out how to get her to the vets with the Covid-19 lockdown still continuing in Wales. We have Critical Care to hand and Fibreplex on the way just in case she takes a turn for the worse however, at the moment she is maintaining her weight and still eating her hay, pellets and drinking water thankfully!
We were wondering if these weird poops could be caecotrophs that Luma isn't eating for some reason? However, we didn't want to make them into poop soup and re-feed them to her if we were wrong!
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated and sorry for the long post, we just wanted to make sure we had provided as much information as possible.
We are worried and very confused about our 2 year old female guinea pigs mystery poops. We have tried to read about anything similar everywhere, but unfortunately still clueless, so hoping someone here might have any advice?
Long story short, we adopted our little Luma back in December, and unfortunately due to the COVID-19 situation she has not been to a vet with us for any general checkups, as we live in Wales and have no cavy-savvy vets nearby. (After learning the hard way with another piggy, we now only make trips to Northampton to see Simon Maddock at the Cat and Rabbit Clinic).
All three of our piggies have sensitive tummies to too much/particular veg, so we stay on the side of caution with around 30g of veg per piggy per day, with no brocolli, celery or green beans as we have had tummy upsets in the past with those. They of course have unlimited hay (timothy and meadow mix), with a tablespoon per piggy of Burgess pellets each day. They also haven't had any access to grass recently.
But this time, Luma's "bad" poops are very different: we have attached pictures below (hopefully they have attached properly!) and they mostly only happen at night (during the day she does "normal" ones). The abnormal night poops look like her normal poops, but with a soft, squishy green layer around them. These have been happening for around a week: we took her off veg straight away, have been giving probiotics in the water, and we have been weighing daily with no major change (@1040g). She is mostly acting herself (still eating, drinking, popcorning on floor time).
We noticed around 3 days ago that her belly looked a bit bigger and was harder to the touch, so after reading other posts on this forum as we were worried about bloat, we have been giving 2ml of gripe water a few times a day, with belly massages using an electric toothbrush. We have also given her poop soup (from her healthy sister Winnie) as that worked wonders when the piggies have had upset tummies before!
Unfortunately, whilst her tummy has "deflated" a little since we started the gripe water and massages, the mystery nighttime poops have stayed.
We were really just wondering if anyone had seen these types of poop before and have any suggestions of how we can help her whilst we try and figure out how to get her to the vets with the Covid-19 lockdown still continuing in Wales. We have Critical Care to hand and Fibreplex on the way just in case she takes a turn for the worse however, at the moment she is maintaining her weight and still eating her hay, pellets and drinking water thankfully!
We were wondering if these weird poops could be caecotrophs that Luma isn't eating for some reason? However, we didn't want to make them into poop soup and re-feed them to her if we were wrong!
Any help or information would be greatly appreciated and sorry for the long post, we just wanted to make sure we had provided as much information as possible.
). So Luma has been prescribed Cisipride, Emeprid and Metacam to help with her gut and pain to see if that will hopefully get her digestive tract back on track! 
Luma says thank you all for your support and comments!
Luma will start to get better now. Continue taking your meds like a good girl 
