This 178g male hoglet came in to us today from Blandford. He was very dehydrated, covered in flystrike, including maggots, and his underside was matted with dried pus. The skin on his belly is all thickened and oozing pus.
He was given a hibiscrub bath, and as much of the dried pus and infected skin as possible was sloughed off. The flystrike was removed, and the skin cleaned.
He has been given s/c fluids and antibiotics, and is now in one of the ICU’s.
We have had another hog brought in this evening, as it was noticed hobbling about during the day, and the finders also recognised that it was dehydrated.
We gave it a check over, and noticed that it’s back right leg had been cut almost through, and that broken bones were visible.
Three more hoglets just arrived, two boys and a girl, weighing in at 48g, 50g & 52g, all still have
This mother and hoglet came to us four days ago after their nest was disturbed while a bamboo bush was
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