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Won't Eat HELP!!!!! my pig is not eating!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

OMIPIGGIE

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I need ya'lls help!! my guinea pig will NOT eat. i thought she would maybe get out of that habit but she hasnt yet!! im so concerned :( its been a few days and shes only eaten tiny bits of food. what do i do?!?!?!
 
Its not a habit it is something seriously wrong. Either she is sick, her teeth are not right, or something more serious is going on. She NEEDS to see a vet by the morning. You NEED to start forcefeeding her pellet mash.

https://www.guinealynx.info/anorexia.html
 
Ditto the above and please keep us updated. I hope she's going to be okey!
 
Not eating for a few days is VERY SERIOUS:important and she needs to see an emergency vet immediately. Please please look and read the link that onetwo gave you. Please keep us updated and let us know what is going on with her, o.k. ? More info about her would be nice too(age, how long you have had her, her name, her weight,ect)..ONCE you have taken her in to an emergency Vet for a thorough diagnosis.
 
Pigs can die from not eating for just 12 hours. What do you do? You take her to an exotic vet immediately, and in the meantime, you mix up a slurry of pellets and water and give it to her with a syringe. She needs 10-12 cc at a time, 5-6 times a day.
 
shes now eating smaller bits a little at a time, shes eating all her hay and veggies just not as much pellets. i did switch brands though, could that have something to do with it?
 
and also shes pretty young, ive olny had her for about a year, her names Piggie, and shes female.
 
What pellets are you feeding her?
 
The pellets are the least important part of her diet. Keep pushing the hay in particular, and also the veggies.
 
shes eating wild harvest guinea pig diet but shes eats every bit of hay and veggies
 
shes eating wild harvest guinea pig diet but shes eats every bit of hay and veggies

I'm really new at this, but i can tell you that the Wild Harvest pellet mix is the crap food my pigs came to me with. I would get better pellets, ppl recommend Oxbow, etc, read around the threads, but at least switch to plain pellets. The WH mix has dried fruit, grains, corn, corn byproducts, etc, that is NOT good for your pig, sorry! :) Are you weighing him every day? I got a scale from Wal-Mart for twenty dollars, it's the Biggest Loser food scale, and when my Diesel was sick i knew from his weight loss WAY before i noticed anything else was wrong, it helped a TON! Good luck!!
 
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