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Post by ilovemybandy on Oct 2, 2009 7:47:07 GMT
I have a guinea Pig who i Believe is 4-5 months old and this morning i found him just huddled in his cage....water un drunk..now this is not normal for him as he usually drinks A bottle within a day..Also he is letting me touch him Again not normal for Bandy.... as he usually zooms around the cage!!! and bites me and tonight i was able to bring him out and love on him.... Now he was eating hamster and gerbil because my dad accidentally grabbed the wrong food.........but he was only eating the pellets out of it....and this guy at walmart tonight when i went to buy him the right food clued me in on a Vitamin c Defficancy...and told me to give him orange juice from a syringe and then fill an extra water bottle with the juice .....i have put the right food in the cage but he is not touching it...... so can some please help give me some ideas on how to get him to his normal self!!!!!!!!! i am worried sick about him (just a note this is only my second piggy! my other one i got at 1y/o and he lived to 5 y/o with not problems what so ever! so please please help me!!!!!!
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Post by abby on Oct 2, 2009 9:12:23 GMT
Give him veggies to tempt him to eat, if he won't eat those then he is likely to be poorly (lettuce, not iceberg, cucumber, celery, bell peppers etc). Is he hunched up? Is his coat fluffed up- "a staring coat" they are signs of illness. It's difficult to know what is wrong but if he is like that you must act. The most important thing is to keep him eating so do try offering him veggies or fresh grass, these are very difficult to resist. You can't force feed those so if he refuses them make a vet appointment and in the mean time syringe feed him either vegetarian baby food or use a food processor to mash up some veggies. Is he pooping normally? If he has diarrhoea you need to treat that immediately with 0.6mls of Kaolin and get an emergency vet appointment. Here is info re diarrhoea, i know you haven't mentioned it but do check as he's acting the way he is: www.oginet.com/pgurney/diarrhoea.htmHere is a general page about helping them when poorly: www.oginet.com/pgurney/admed.htmI hope he gets back to himself soon. I don't know that having hamster food would be what has made him ill but there's obviously a reason why their foods are different. Re the orange juice- he was right about them needing vitamin c but they should get that from daily veggies and not need any extra supplements. I don't know any piggie that would voluntarily drink orange juice out of a bottle. Also it's very rich, it could upset his tummy maybe so i would not give him it any more. Let us know how he gets on.
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Post by Dawn - Admin on Oct 2, 2009 14:14:50 GMT
Sounds like he is ill, if he is off his food then you need to start syringe feeding him because he will die if he doesn't eat. Here are some tips on syringe feeding. cutiecavies.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=feeding&action=display&thread=4954Then you need to get him to a vet asap to get checked over. Sounds like he could be deficient if he hasn't had the correct food for a while however I doubt this would stop him eating his veggies. It could be something else wrong.
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