So My Guinea Pigs Pee Is White Does Anyone Know Why Because I Want To Fix It Or Get An X-ray To Make Sure It Isent A Bladder Stone Because If It Is I Want To Make Sure Its Not Going To Kill Her But She Is 2 Almost 3
Hi and welcome
Milky white pees are the natural way of the body to get rid of any excess calcium. The odd calcium pee (which dries into powdery white dust) is not an issue. If you see lots of milky pees or you can feel hard gritty bits (crystals) in a dried pee puddle, then you want to check your diet and in the second case, have your piggy's bladder checked for the presence of stones or sludge.
A cluster of milky pees can in some cases be the very first symptom of a cystitis (a bladder infection, which can be bacterial or sterile). In this case, you should see increasingly more symptoms of an infection in the urinary tract like intensely red coloured pees (which may or may not test for the presence of blood in the urine; the colourant is phorphyine and not blood), wheeking when peeing or pooing etc. See a vet for a diagnosis and appropriate medication when this happens.
Please also be aware that a too low in calcium may also result in calcium pees.
If you have concerns about the diet, please note that the majority of calcium in the diet comes with the water (even more so in a hard water area) and via overfeeding pellets. The same weight of pellets (even no added calcium ones) contains more calcium than the veg highest in it. We recommend to not feed more than 15 ml of pellets max per piggy per day. That is either a tablespoon or 1/8 of a cup in volume.
More information on the diet as a whole and on each of the food groups in detail is in this link here, which you may find very interesting and helpful. We understand a lot more about diet than we used to just a few years ago and will undoubtedly learn even more in the years to come. Here is the link:
Long Term Balanced General And Special Needs Guinea Pig Diets
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