greychins
NWI Chinchillas
So, we pulled a chin from one of the local humane societies. No idea what she was fed before, but when we picked her up....the food in her food bowl looked to me like parrot food, so obviously not the right stuff. Not to mention, this chin is skin n bones.
So we get her home, fresh pellets, water, everything. For the first few days she had really tiny poos, which I attributed to the fact that she really didn't want to touch her food for the first few days. Well, she finally started eating the food and her poos became a more normal size.
I'd been giving her oxbow Timothy hay (someone had donated a bag, we use horse hay). Well I ran out of that bag and gave her our usual hay. Came back in the morning and she had loose poos. Didn't give her hay the next day and the poos were solid again.
I gave her hay last night, haven't had a chance to check on her yet today (i'm at work). So I'll see what's going on when I get home....but has anyone had something like this happen? Give hay and end up with loose poos? Our horse hay is a mix of Timothy, alfalfa, orchard grass, and rye. The bales we have current bales were recently cut and seem to have a more-than-usual amount of alfalfa in them. None of our other chins/rescues are having any problems
with this hay, and they're all gobbling it up. So I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts? I will be checking on the chin when I get home from
work and we'll see how she tolerated the hay then.
So we get her home, fresh pellets, water, everything. For the first few days she had really tiny poos, which I attributed to the fact that she really didn't want to touch her food for the first few days. Well, she finally started eating the food and her poos became a more normal size.
I'd been giving her oxbow Timothy hay (someone had donated a bag, we use horse hay). Well I ran out of that bag and gave her our usual hay. Came back in the morning and she had loose poos. Didn't give her hay the next day and the poos were solid again.
I gave her hay last night, haven't had a chance to check on her yet today (i'm at work). So I'll see what's going on when I get home....but has anyone had something like this happen? Give hay and end up with loose poos? Our horse hay is a mix of Timothy, alfalfa, orchard grass, and rye. The bales we have current bales were recently cut and seem to have a more-than-usual amount of alfalfa in them. None of our other chins/rescues are having any problems
with this hay, and they're all gobbling it up. So I was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts? I will be checking on the chin when I get home from
work and we'll see how she tolerated the hay then.