Strange Poop opinion

[Lisanjake]

Any one seen poop like this before? I can’t say I have personally! It was almost like it was light poop on top of normal poop?

 

[sport_billy]

We get some of that occasionally

 

[Lisanjake]

We get some of that occasionally

I did change their pellets a few weeks ago, stupidly didn’t even think that I needed to do it slowly so now I’m worried I’ve messed her guts up a bit.
She’s also lost about 60g of weight over a week… would the pellets change of caused that? She seems to be happy eating hay / veg etc
I’ve changed the pellets back so will see if she improves her weight any

 

[Siikibam]

Pellets are only 5% of their diet so shouldn’t have an impact on weight. I would start weighing her once daily at the sann my e time and start topping her up if the daily trend is downwards. If it continues downwards then I’d book her in with the vet.

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[Piggies&buns]

Any change in diet should be done slowly, but Id be going on alert with that kind of weight loss in a week, it’ll be due to reduced hay intake. Switch to weighing daily and be prepared to step in with syringe feeding/popping a bowl of critical care in the cage, and see a vet

Weight - Monitoring and Management

 

[Lisanjake]

Any change in diet should be done slowly, but Id be going on alert with that kind of weight loss in a week, it’ll be due to reduced hay intake. Switch to weighing daily and be prepared to step in with syringe feeding/popping a bowl of critical care in the cage, and see a vet

Weight - Monitoring and Management

Thank you, yeah it did concern me that each weigh in was slightly less everytime :/
I did change their hay a few weeks ago too.
But it’s nicer Timothy hay and meadow hay as my normal bag of hay from the farm shop seemed to be dusty and smelly so I chucked it out.
Could that even be a possibility?

 

[Piggies&buns]

Thank you, yeah it did concern me that each weigh in was slightly less everytime :/
I did change their hay a few weeks ago too.
But it’s nicer Timothy hay and meadow hay as my normal bag of hay from the farm shop seemed to be dusty and smelly so I chucked it out.
Could that even be a possibility?

While piggies can be fussy, better quality hay should mean they eat more but you don’t need to change hay slowly like you would introduce new pellets or veg slowly