Guinea pig quarantine

This is a must if you already have other gilts. A beginner, even if he looks absolutely healthy, may be a carrier of some kind of disease that will manifest itself only with time.

So, a new pig is always first separated from the rest. Preferably in a separate room.

If the pig is alone, but you can immediately land it in a prepared dwelling. But within a month to observe her condition and behavior. Even a healthy guinea pig does not tolerate capture, transportation, climate change, environment, food. At first, the animal should be carefully looked after, given complete food, and its behavior and health should be carefully monitored.

Experts recommend quarantine for a period of two weeks to a month.

During the first week, they observe how the pig eats the food offered to it. If the animal demonstrates a good appetite and has a normal stool, then the diet is gradually diversified, finding out what and in what quantity he eats more willingly, that is, they set the daily feeding rate.

A sharp transition from one food to another leads to indigestion. During an upset stomach, instead of water, the animal is given oatmeal or rice broth, as well as a weak solution of potassium permanganate (one crystal per half liter of water) until the litter becomes formalized.

Ideally, during quarantine, it is recommended to conduct bacteriological and parasitological examination of guinea pig faeces twice (at intervals of a week) in the bacteriological laboratory of a veterinary clinic.

After quarantine, a healthy animal is placed in a common cage with other animals; the patient is kept in isolation until recovery.