catherine09
Mama Doe
Sweep has EC (not confirmed but can't see what else it could be at this stage) and has been nursed for 3 weeks now. He has a severe head tilt and originally wasn't eating or drinking by himself at all. He is now at the stage where he is using a water bottle nd can eat hay, pellets, grass etc however as he's not eating many pellets (preferring grass/hay) he is losing weight, so the vet told me to syringe feed every day. This has helped slow down his weight loss but is having an extreme reaction on his tummy, every day after a syringe feed the night before he produces a vast amount of uneaten cecals (he's not steady enough to reach eat them anyway but he is prone to them) - today there were 5 huge piles, some of which he had trodden in. I'm going to discuss with the vet but has anyone else had this problem with long term nursing and is there an alternative? I thought about mashing up some pellets and syringing those to see if it's any better.......
The other thing is, he has now been nursed inside for 3 weeks, we made the decision to split him from Hettie his wife-bun whilst he was hospitalised but she has been on her own now for 3 weeks and will be for the forseeable future, which obviously isn't ideal . Has anyone with an EC bun had any success in eventually re-bonding to their original partner? Currently we don't know how long it will take him to recover from his head tilt or if it ever will completely recover, but I'm obviously concerned that he will never be 'well' enough again to live with Hettie, she is larger than him and quite bouncy and active :? I just don't know what to do about Hettie at the moment, sadly there's no option to bring her inside and it's horrible to think that she may be on her own for quite a while whilst Sweep gets better.
Just all very uncertain about everything at the moment Sweep really hasn't improved one bit in the last 3 weeks aside from the fact he is now eating (but not enough to maintain so I'm having to force feed him every night -and I really do have to force it down him he hates it )
Meh
The other thing is, he has now been nursed inside for 3 weeks, we made the decision to split him from Hettie his wife-bun whilst he was hospitalised but she has been on her own now for 3 weeks and will be for the forseeable future, which obviously isn't ideal . Has anyone with an EC bun had any success in eventually re-bonding to their original partner? Currently we don't know how long it will take him to recover from his head tilt or if it ever will completely recover, but I'm obviously concerned that he will never be 'well' enough again to live with Hettie, she is larger than him and quite bouncy and active :? I just don't know what to do about Hettie at the moment, sadly there's no option to bring her inside and it's horrible to think that she may be on her own for quite a while whilst Sweep gets better.
Just all very uncertain about everything at the moment Sweep really hasn't improved one bit in the last 3 weeks aside from the fact he is now eating (but not enough to maintain so I'm having to force feed him every night -and I really do have to force it down him he hates it )
Meh