Sandi
non-stop poop sweeper
I'm a little concerned and anxious as to what is going on with my 2 older boys who are also cagemates...as long as I've had them, they have had playtime 3 times a week.
Only recent change is that they have been in their new FN for the past 10 days but this issue with their poops started 4 days ago. Everything else is the same, including their food and cage accessories. I've had both chins for almost 10 months now. They eat oxbow pellets and hay and filtered water. Treats are a few crushed rosehips for each every other day OR a very small piece of a chin cookie instead of the rosehips. I also provide them with lots of wood chews.
Every night and morning, I spot clean around their cage and there is ALWAYS tons of healthy poops on the shelves, in their tunnel & house and floor outside of theire cage as well. In the past 4 days there have been minimal poops from both of them and they are very tiny. No poops on most shelves and very little in their tunnel and none outside of their cage. I've been giving them Lifeline for the past 3 days. They eat and drink like normal. On Thursday, I did add a bottle of unsweetend apple juice and filtered water mixture, and they did drink from that as well as from their usual water bottle, but nothing has changed. I put them in the playpen as usual and their poops became normal! Why I'm concerned is that this has never happened where both have tiny poops and a small amount, even when they are active at night in their cage and on their wheel or jumping on the ledges and such.
Not sure what to do or think about this?!?
Pic of normal poop (left) while in playpen & tiny poop (left) from cage
Only recent change is that they have been in their new FN for the past 10 days but this issue with their poops started 4 days ago. Everything else is the same, including their food and cage accessories. I've had both chins for almost 10 months now. They eat oxbow pellets and hay and filtered water. Treats are a few crushed rosehips for each every other day OR a very small piece of a chin cookie instead of the rosehips. I also provide them with lots of wood chews.
Every night and morning, I spot clean around their cage and there is ALWAYS tons of healthy poops on the shelves, in their tunnel & house and floor outside of theire cage as well. In the past 4 days there have been minimal poops from both of them and they are very tiny. No poops on most shelves and very little in their tunnel and none outside of their cage. I've been giving them Lifeline for the past 3 days. They eat and drink like normal. On Thursday, I did add a bottle of unsweetend apple juice and filtered water mixture, and they did drink from that as well as from their usual water bottle, but nothing has changed. I put them in the playpen as usual and their poops became normal! Why I'm concerned is that this has never happened where both have tiny poops and a small amount, even when they are active at night in their cage and on their wheel or jumping on the ledges and such.
Not sure what to do or think about this?!?
Pic of normal poop (left) while in playpen & tiny poop (left) from cage
