Swiping at mouth and little poops.

[Christina Noraas]

This ones a double wammy guys.

So it's all cleared up now for the most part, every now and again a itty bitty one will slip though but right after will come out a normal sized poop. Oh, about a week and half to two weeks ago I noticed that there was very few droppings and the ones that were there were extremely small. So I brought them out one each at a time and after 15-20 minutes I noticed that neither was pooping. However, they were both drinking and eating normally. So I let them out to run about, put some dust on the floor so they could roll around, I also massaged their bellies. It seemed to help some but not the amount that I had hoped. So I put my extra water bottle in the cage with it, and put a drop of baby gas drops in and put them on a 1/2 and 1/2 timothy and alfalfa diet. Their doing good now and their poops are back to normal for the most part with the exception of a little one passing though every now and again. Is there anything I should be worried about, or did wrong?

For my second question, I've noticed but only when they're eating or shortly after eating rose hips I figured that it was from the seeds inside, that they paw their mouth. Should this be any raise for concern or have you seen it in your chins as well?

 

[Tillygizmo]

Mine do that sometimes...I think the seeds are grainy or something. Once in awhile I see them paw after having one. I havent worried.

Worry if its dramatic and exagerated because it could be choking or something but yeah my chins do it once in awhile as well

 

[melbur10]

If you crack a rose hip open there is a bed of tinny red/brown 'hair' on the inside which is very itchy to the touch ...lol you can test it out with just z slight rub on sensitive skin like the skin on the wrist, some times it will bother my fingers as well. This could easily make a chin paw their mouth. Just watch for other signs of bloat/stasis as your saying their poops went really small, and at some points non existent.
Some times teeth and GI troubles can be directly related.
But in this case I wouldn't worry so much about the occasional mouth swipe, my healthy girls do it all the time when they dust, eat or sniff some thing odd.:thumbsup:

 

[ticklechin]

Mouth swiping is a symptom of malo, but its in conjuction with eating anything and all the other malo symptoms. Rose hips irritate the mouth, in this case its normal. If I feed rose hips they are crushed, I just don't care for the fact that there is mouth irritation.