Holly tucking in. After four days of loosing weight and still being unsettled and having the most horrible green smelly poos finally after the second round of meds she's started to calm down and gained weight.
The larger snuggle pouches my mum made have come in handy as she did have a igloo home to sleep in but my partner said she spent all day banging it around while she was struggling with the fluke.
Once she got in a pouch and meds started to work she calmed right down.
Don't get to see adult roundworms full of eggs under the scope very often. Meds are doing their job.
Lavender, daisy and tulips last bath for ringworm. Showing a little self anointing to. Drying of in the incubator. Their all over 700gms now a big difference to when they first come in and could all fit on one hand.
They have been a nightmare to treat for ringworm, I would normally do baths along with daily sprays of the medication but it's hard to do that when they don't want to unfurl.
Their hopefully on their last round of coccidia treatment to. So they should be going home soon.
The little girl that was found by dian on Thursday has been named Timignon. Dian's grandchildren who live in France named her and it mean cutie.
I may place her with vinni and ursula for company as their only slightly bigger than her after sample checks tomorrow. She's 141gms today and she certainly has a good appetite.
Just one bit of the slide under the microscope of a sample from the two newbies. Full of lungworm.
A little brighter this morning, as expected they dropped a few grams in weight over night. Samples showing lungworm and cap eggs so far so I will start treatments for those.
Just thought I would show you the reason I say I'm only a micro rescue. I do it on my own with no help because I do it mostly from my spare room.
In here is two hutches 7 medium zoozones one large zoozone and the incubators. All these cages/hutches and the big incubator are in use.
Outside under my covered area I also have four hutches.
So when I say I am full I really do mean it. Even if I don't stick to the number I say I shouldn't go over which is ten. Because I'm no good at sticking to that number I'm back up to 15 lol
The plan is to convert one of the wardrobes that's in this room into a extra shelving unit by using the doors as shelves. If I can condense the two of these which are full of clothes into one! So I can get my floor space back. (Not so I can take in more).
Desperately need these release to happen so I can get some us time back.
You would think she don't get fed the way she's shovelling that food down, slow down Sprinkles. Up to 410gms.
Sooty and sweep have upgraded to the large zoozone after a move around.
Sooty is now 227gms and sweep 339gms. They will have their second round of fluke meds tomorrow. Nothing else has shown in samples so far.
Tulip, daisy and lavender still got a way to go to beat the ringworm. Hopefully they have just had the last round of meds for cap.
Early morning feed for these two. Doing so well now.
Bev the finder of this little one has named her sprinkles. As you can see she from her eating from this shallow pringles lid she has a big appetite. She's perked up no end from yesterday. Samples are clear so far.
I've upgraded her to my only spare box as she was trashing the tiny incubator which is not designed to keep hogs in for any length of time. Theirs not really space for a bed and food.
The new bigger incubator for which chosen has very kindly donated the money for should be here by the end of the week.
She's picked up a little now she's warmed up,
Bev since you brought her in she needs a name I'm doing the alphabet so I need a name beginning with S if you have one.
Drying off in the incubator after having their first medicated bath as their showing signs of ringworm on their bellies.
These 3 are growing up fast. Little lavender is now 148gms catching up the other 2. Tulip is 154gms and daisy is 190gms.
They start their next set of coccidia treatment tomorrow.
I've upgraded them to a igloo home as it was getting a little cramped in the snuggle pouches for them and their now making so much mess. Plus it saves me a load of washing lol.
The 3 babies are growing up. Daisy was 89gms when she come in. She's now 151gms.
Tulip was 84gms, she's now 122gms. She lost weight for a couple of days. But a green poo Confirmed coccidia so their all being treated for that.
Lavender who was the runt of the litter was 80gms and is now 115gms so after the first few days of hand feeds she's going great.
All made the night and feeding themselves mostly this morning. Little lavender gained 1 gram. The other two lost a couple of grams but it was a stressful time for them yesterday being handled so much to remove the fly eggs.
I'm glad I did a midnight check and last feed as I found more eggs and the ear on lavender that had a big clump of fly eggs in looked red. So I checked it and some tiny maggots were their. She had been treated with a spray to kill of any but these must have not been touched by the liquid. So I removed them and treated them all again just to be safe.
I've just done this video to show just how bad little Ralph's parasite burden is. After showing you the photo this morning.
This is just one slide under the microscope. I've filmed on my phone from the laptop using laptop camera attachment to the microscope. So bare with it as I had to pause to move the slide over.
As you can see it's full of cap eggs with the odd lungworm wriggling around to. Theirs also fluke eggs in his sample to.
So he's very poorly, even though he's been tucking into food he has stayed the same weight as yesterday. But when I cleaned him out just now it looked liked he had been going around his cage, which will be mostly down to the fluke. 😥
Quinten is doing ok he is liking his food. He's still very poorly but hopefully now he's on medication he will keep on improving.
Fluke is the worst parasite he has and I'm surprised with the amount of eggs I've seen in his samples that he's still with us.
Quinten made the night but he's still very poorly, his poor little body has so many parasites that he's got blood in his poo.
His samples are so full of cap eggs, and very high numbers of lungworm and fluke eggs. 😪 this is just one view of his sample on a slide. Cap eggs and 4 lungworm.
