Sorry it's been a few days since an update, there's kind of been a mix of things to make sense of...
Good news is, Friar Tuck's feet are almost completely better! Old skin is almost gone and new skin looks healthy:
(The little black dot was just a speck of something that wiped right off)
His weight, however keeps going up and down, up and down. The last week and half, he dropped to 920ish grams, climbed all the way back up 1005, hovered in the 970s, now going back down again to 946.
Some days he devours his pellets (completely emptying the bowl) some days he only picks at them and his hay. The last couple days he's been devouring fresh corn, oranges, carrot, and cucumber, but is turning up his nose at everything else. He's still active and acting normal. Some days there's slightly less poop, but all his poops are normal.
He still hasn't decided to consistently use his water bottle since he got sick, almost like he blames it for something. He'll do one or two taps out of the blue, but doesn't drink like he used to. So I still syringe him water a few times a day, which he absolutely loves for some reason
i got a new bottles, one guinea pig and one hamster sized to see if it changed anything, but it didn't. I can't find anything wrong with the old one.
It's almost like whatever gave him GI issues in the first place still flares up a little, then goes away. Or like he eats one veggie well, then blames it for not feeling good (even though it's not what caused it). It kind of popped in my head because we also have a macaw with a sort of bird form of human IBS (best way to describe it) For her, every few months or so it flares up, she doesn't eat well and blames whatever food she normally loves and most recently eaten. She gets her medicine for it a week or so and it goes away again for another few months. I've heard some guinea pigs are born with chronic GI troubles too....
But overall he's a happy piggy and doing amazing compared where he was <3
Thoughts? Has anyone else had a previously ill piggy do similar things?