Could have sworn I amde a topic about this... oh well.

Anyone ever heard of this? I was trying to help someone out with their pigs as they had mites and they read somewhere that bag balm was good for them. I suggested against it though as I've never heard about it on here or on guinea lynx.

Wiki page: Bag Balm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

thoughts?

I printed out the chart on guinealynx for the oral Ivermectin horse paste. I will be mixing this with vegetable oil and I should be okay with that since my son has a graduated cylinder. My main problem is a syringe to administer the Ivermectin. What do you use and where did you get it? I tried CVS and the pet store but neither had one small enough. I'd rather not have to drive 40-45 minutes to his vet just to get a syringe if I don't have to.

I'm smacking my forehead for not keeping one of the two that I had from Doc's antibiotics

How often should a healthy pig be scratching? My pigs (females) have been scratching quite a bit lately (more so than before at least) and I'm concerned they may have lice/mites (though now that I think of it if that's true the male pup I separated out recently would probably have them too as well as my other boar now, ugh!) I have checked them over and I can't seem to find any bugs/eggs or such and they definitely don't have hair loss or scabs. I think I will pick up some Ivermectin regardless, but I was curious if it sounds as though I'm jumping to conclusions? (which I do with all my animals/children hehe)

Okay my daughter came home and told me one of her friends has head lice. She said her head was itching and I figured I would check it even though I thought it was probably psychological. To my surprise I found one live adult head lice crawling in her hair. Not many nits on her head but we are going to treat everything anyways. My question is, can the guinea pigs get the lice? She spends a great deal of time cuddling with them and spent about an hour this evening cuddling with OddBall and of course he was crawling around all around her hair and on her bed. Do I need to worry about them getting the lice? If I do, what can I treat them with? Do I need to take them into the vet? Any help would be appreciated.

I supposed my baby silkie got URI.. She does lots of cough and sneeze, wheeze and crusty eye.. She does not refuse to eat thou.. She's just a month old.. I can't believe any vet in here (Indonesia) because they are not familiar with small animal especially guinea pig.. Please help me.. Thank you..

My pig is about to start a seven-day course of antibiotics. I asked my vet to give me probiotics, and she gave me Bene-Bac. However, it is Lactic Acid producing bacteria. I know that pigs are not supposed to have lactose. Do I need to call my vet back?

I really need your experience and expertice. I can post the full list of ingredients if needed.

Ok, so you all know about the new guinea pig i got from a friend not to long ago, well today she was acting weird. She was not running around and just laying on her side making a soft weeking whisper noise. she isnt very alert either.There are no vets open around me but I did put her into a separate small cage I borrowed so that she wont be around me other girls. I will be taking her to the vet as soon as they open in the morning along with taking my other girls so that they can get check up on too so I can make sure they are ok as well. I am freeking out right now :( uhh..

Okay, I have read all the threads I could about skin problems but can't seem to find one that fits my piggies problem. Scabbers started to scratch himself with his teeth on his back towards the side (I think thats the only place he can reach) about 2-3 weeks ago. Didn't seem like much but we have since found a bald spot with a tiny scab in the middle from him biting himself. Now he is getting a small bald spot on the other side..you can see where he gets to himself by the green on his white fur left over from his meal :) Anyway, it isn't red and doesn't even seem scaley..he is only missing hair where he has chewed it off. Could he just be getting dry skin now that the heat has been coming on in our home? Harley, his girlfriend, doesn't seem to be having any problems. If I absolutely have to take him to the vet I will but between 4 other piggie visits (one being Harley's pregnancy scare) and our beloved dog being put down I have spent over $1,000 dollars in the last 10 weeks. Does anyone have any advice on what I can do to help Scabbers from feeling itchy?

Our little piggy seems to be shedding, as I was brushing her the fur was really flying. I don't brush her to often as she seems not to like it
(squeals when I do it). My question is how much is too much? (no bald spots)

This pig is some what new to us, and before did not have the best diet, so that may also be a factor.

I had Tahiri, Kimi, and Leonidas out for floortime. Please read whole post before responding- I want thurough answers.

I lifted and moved the pigloo because they edged it into a spot that I didn't want it to be, Tahiri was the only one under it. She scattered, but there was a small red spot on the floor where she was sitting.

I picked her up, and looked at her bottom and genitals. There was some blood on her fur to the left of her genitals, and a little bit on the lower right portion of her genitals.

I cotton swab and warm watered all of that off, and looked for further bleeding or scrapes... there were none. I thought maybe it was due to having intercourse with our neutered male? There wasn't any blood where her pee comes out and it was a very tiny amount of it on the floor.

It was then that I noticed a small mass just behind her genitals, having just got males I figured it may have been boar glue and mineral oiled her and worked it off- there was something stuck in her fur, I couldn't tell if it was feces or glue. Some of it was too close to her skin and so I snipped the fur off, after a few snips, she squeaked.

I took a closer look at it and noticed a raised tiny bump, fewer than 4 mm across. It was bleeding a little, I'm guessing because I nicked it with the scissors. :( I felt so bad... but moving on.

She hasn't been scratching, there are no signs of mites.

She's 5 years old, I know my grandmother's dog has gotten bumps as it aged- do guinea pigs do the same?

I just took her to the vet last month and she's was on anti and pro biotics along with her cagemates because of a possible URI for ten days, which ended last Wednesday. She's had overgrowth/spurs on her paws before, which I have trimmed off with no problem.

Input on the cause of this tiny bump is appreciated. It's too small for me to take photos.

I did find another thread with a similar question posed, but there was no resolution.

Popcorn was a new addition as of November 1st. I noticed on her foot about five days ago that there was a dry patch of skin on her right back foot. It goes all up her foot. There is hardly any fur. She is young, I'm not sure how old. She weighs 427 grams as of today, just to give you an idea of how small she is. She has been eating and drinking just fine. What do you think it could be? I was thinking it may be mange mites. :( Pookie, my other guinea, has no signs of these symptoms. Here is a picture of what it looks like:

Hi everyone. One of our girls (we have seven pigs total), Posey, is around 7 months old, and is a short-haired white abysinnian. She's got a pair of issues and we've been trying to figure out whether they're related or not. She's been to the vet twice, and the vet was not able to find a real diagnosis.

The first and more concerning of the two problems is that she tends to get sneezy and wheezy, but this is something that only seems to happen when she's up and moving around the cage (and even then, only sometimes), and when we hold her. Of course our vet fully checked out her lungs and said they sounded fine. It seems that the problem is some sort of mild inflammation of her nose, but is not any sort of infection, bacterial or viral. She did give us some Metacam which we are going to try to see if it makes a difference as far as the inflammation, but we're not sure whether keeping her on that permanently is a good idea. Other than the wheezing/sneezing, she seems very healthy. She's been gradually putting on weight, eats normally (although we don't really see her drink much), and has lots of energy as most pigs do.

The second, and weirder of the two issues is that her fur has all of these green patches on it, particularly on the underbelly and underneath her chin, (which may just be due to eating wet dark green lettuce leaves). The vet noticed this and thinks that her urine is green, and said it wasn't a big deal, but it still seems pretty strange. We've got another all-white pig, and she's never been green before! Is green urine something that should be a concern?

Ok, so I don't quite know where to categorize this, but one of my peruvian guinea pigs looks to have a long twisted strand of hairs and a hairball at the end of it sticking out of him. When I picked him up, he seemed completely normal. This thing sticking out was quite wet, and I'm quite worried. What is it??
Help!

I have a pregnant sow. We estimate she is somewhere between 60 and 70 days pregnant. She has seen the vet (last month for a checkup) and has never had any kind of medical issues. Today though I woke up to a cage/pigs covered in soft unformed stool. yuck!

After watching them over a period of time today I was able to determine that it was my pregnant sow who has the issue. I have not changed her diet at all and she has not lost any weight. She has been drinking more water as expected but with all the additional water she is drinking plus her normal amount of greens could this be what is causing her diarrhea? I put her in a separate cage so I can watch her to see if her poop returns to normal. That and I had to clean out my cage today because of the issue so I don't really want her to make another mess in the cage.

At what point should I make an appointment with my vet?