My Guinea pig keeps getting something stuck in her fur I never manage to get a good photo of it but it’s a beige/cream colour and gets really hard. I often find it near her back end and it need washing or cutting out. We first thought it was like calcium deposit but she’s only having celery and pepper and bottled water with 1tbsp of pellets so why is it still there?
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Strange deposit in fur
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Does she have a male cagemate by any chance?
If so, then it is probable it’s boar glue - dried semen. It sets rock hard and won’t come out unless it is cut out.
If she doesn’t have a male cagemate (and you’re certain it isn’t a male ie they aren’t new piggies or you’ve checked yourself), then perhaps you can post a picture of the issue
Does she have a male cagemate by any chance?
If so, then it is probable it’s boar glue - dried semen. It sets rock hard and won’t come out unless it is cut out.
If she doesn’t have a male cagemate (and you’re certain it isn’t a male ie they aren’t new piggies or you’ve checked yourself), then perhaps you can post a picture of the issue
She does- but when I search that it looks white and this is more cream
Post a picture, but this is definitely sounding like boar glue.
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I’ll try and get one next time as I’ve wiped it off her this time, but last time I had to completely cut it out and she ended up with a little bald patch because it wouldn’t come out at all
Yep, boar glue!
It dries rock hard and will not come out. Cutting it out is the only way once it is dried.
You can only wipe it off if it is fresh.
https://i.redd.it/wyujfibvsus61.jpgThis isn’t my photo but it looked like this
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Yep, sounds like boar glue. Nothing you can do to stop it I’m afraid, it’s just your boar getting excited around your girl 
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I have had a lot of boars and have noticed boar glue can be almost clear, many shades of cream to a browny colour! It does sound like boar glue.
I have four boars and also notice the same thing - clear to creamy coloured
Sounds like boar glue to me, too. “ Does what it says on the tin” To quote the 80’s advert!
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Welcome to the forum.
The joy of boars !
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Are we looking at a bald patch?
Yes she does have a bald patch there because whatever this cream stuff is it dries hard and had to be cut out last weekend. The skin under is clean, dry, not scaly or itchy and hasn’t spread.
Ive merged your two threads.
See a vet if you are concerned but it is possibly boar glue as she does live with a male.
See a vet if you are concerned but it is possibly boar glue as she does live with a male.
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That looks like a dried powdery calcium pee to me? Guinea pigs discharge any excess calcium via the urine (milky pees). This is a normal process and nothing to worry about unless you see those pees on a near daily basis. Your piggy has obviously sat in their milky pee and his has dried off. The odd calcium pee is not an issue.
They should clean it off on their next 'piggy wash' on their but if not, just gently wipe it off with a soft moist rag.
Boar glue is milky white and dries to a hard, somewhat shiny substance that eventually falls of on its own. Please do not try to rip it off from any skin since the skin may come off as well, which is is rather painful.