Diet Soft poop pellets-what to offer?

[RubyRain]

I adopted a lovely brown agouti female (?-that's another post) from the local humane society this week. I checked her out and she seems healthy except for 1 thing. Her pellets are very soft and watery. They are formed but look watery and "smush" very easy.
She came with crappy alfalfa based pellets and yogurt drops which I promptly threw away. She did have a bag of hay but I don't know how often she was getting it.

I THINK she just needs more hay but she doesn't seem interested in it at all so far. I've only offered a bit of red/green lettuce and small bit of pepper in the 2 days I've had her because I don't think she had veggies before.

I've tried regular timothy hay and orchard grass and the pile doesn't seem to be any smaller in the last 2 days. Whereas my other pigs would eat that much in a few hours!

She has eaten the veggies and the Oxbow pellets I offered. Just wondering if anyone had any other ideas to get her stools regulated.
Thanks!

 

[bpatters]

If she were eating hay, I'd say to cut back on her veggies. But if she isn't eating hay,you can't do that very well. For the moment, give her all the pellets she'll eat -- her gut has to keep moving, but needs to slow down a little. She may well need a vet visit, probably for some flagyl (metronidazole).

Try hand feeding her some hay, and pick out several different bits -- seed heads, green stems, brown stems, whatever different varieties there are. See if she likes one better than another, and keep giving her that. Pigs often have very different ideas of what constitutes good hay than we do, and may eat something that you wouldn't think they'd like.

If that doesn't do the trick in a day or so, or if she stops eating altogether, or if she develops diarrhea, then it's off to vet ASAP.