Impaction <boak>

[BonkeyMollocks]

Apologies for the gross-ness!

Twice in the last 5 days I have had to extract what looks abit like poo out Big pigs bum.

It was soft and paler than pellet poo, and bloody stank!

It also had seemed to have hair in it, although I suspect this has probably been where he has dragged his bum on the floor. He's a moulter!

Is this impaction?

Big pig is only 7 months old, I thought this mainly happened in older pigs . He is a chunky boy.

He is not impressed with my moves with the tissues :( although strangely satisfying when its out

Anything I can do?

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Vile isn't it, as mum of 2 boars I don't relish it.

My childhood boar used to get a whole load of poohs stuck in his bum (not soft ones but the long, firm 'normal' ones but all in a big clump)

I was horrified earlier this year when my little boy had a huge soft pooh (size of a marble) stuck in his bum. I eased it out with tissue, then during the night he did proper poohs in his bed.
I was reliably informed and re-assured that an impacted boar doesn't produce their pooh, it all backs up in their rectum (yuk).

My little boy tends to get softy pooh if he has a day grazing, do I cut his supper veg.,but give him plenty of hay. His poohs are always back to normal in a few hours.

The hair might be if he's grooming and ingesting his fur, like cats do?

I try and make the boys have excercise (Fat ,lazy boars = saggy bottoms)
They walk round with their rumps held up high .

Strangley, my GP1 is the dominant marker type (drags his bum over clean bedding and pees on things, but his droppings are A1)

Hopefully your Big Pig has just been overdoing veg and made his poohs a bit looser.
Some websites recommend an edible oil dabbed round their bits to help it slip out.
But he might want to cover himself completely and pretend to be a Chippendale/ DreamBoy

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

BTW, for Boar Bum Duties, baby wipes might be kinder than tissue (the ones that are moisturising and gentle. Tissue might be draggy on their delicate boy bits)

Notes to self to buy wipes for GP2

[fridayfreedom]

We have two Boars. Gary has very neat boy bits!! Gizzy is very well endowed!! he gets smelly stuff in the anal sac which needs easing out....yuk!!
very smelly , tends to get bits of bedding stuck there too. Rescue centre showed us how to get it out but strangely enough DD16 is not the one doing it!!!

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

friday how old are your boars?

My first boar (when I was 9yo) was only 2 when he died and was quite ill at the end (was seeing the vet for stress ezcema) .I thought it was because he was too weak to push out his pooh, but it may well have been impaction.

[BonkeyMollocks]

Hmmm, I wonder then if its too much veg. Will have to keep a eye.

Not impaction I don't think because he is poo-ing normally as well.

Mine are lazy too, just sit and eat, especially Big pig. May have to scoot him round the living room at risk of his disgust to make sure he gets a decent run. Currently he just mooches round and then takes up camp under the TV . All he does in the daytime is sit in his hay tray eating and sleeping.

And I will invest in some pig friendly wipes, although I did use super soft tissue tonight, bought for the purpose of my nose (stupid cold!) , but I appreciate wipes may be more bum friendly

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Mine don't drink water even though I dutifully provide fresh water every night but they will hoover a plate of veg night and morning.
It's a balancing act to make sure they have enough fluid (cucumber, celery, strawberries and watermelon are their favourite high water-content foods) and not to over-do.

GP2 has a soft eating pooh nestled in his bum 99% alot of the time.
The hogs have their 'own' areas in the Pighouse ( but share the space) so I know the poo piles are from either pig.

How sad is it when you go inspecting your GPs waste matter?

DD delights in "Mum, look at these poo nests, there must be 20 in each one"

[KRITIQ]

Oh poor you. Clothes peg on the nose might be in order!

Boar 5 of 8 had impaction which started when he was about 3, so a fairly young guy. You develop a technique for removing and disposing of it inside 15 seconds. The tools of the trade are toddler wipes (have a stronger nice scent than baby wipes), nappy sacks and plastic gloves if you are squeamish.

DBoar 1 has a sort of fussy tummy. In the past few months, if he indulges on too much fruit and veg (which DH tends to give him - junk food!), he gets softish not fragrant poos. He also sort of makes a grunting noise from time to time, so you know things aren't quite right. I've started giving big handfuls of redigrass for extra fibre and that seems to help.

Hey, at least pig poos most of the time are cuter than those of almost any animal.

(Did I just refer to faeces as "cute?")

[70isaLimitNotaTarget]

Cute

DD enthuses about the "glossy turds" that GP1 deposits on the lawn.

I blame the parents.