stosh2010
04-29-2023, 12:13 PM
Hello TSB I need your help again
On Easter Sunday we were gifted with two baby eyes closed Costa Rican tree squirrels
The Golden Boy is called Dulce ..mand the little gray boy is called Buho.
The first two weeks of feeding them, and getting them on Fox Valley formula went fairly well , and their poop and their pee seem to be normal.. although fluctuating. Last Saturday we began slowly introducing Lactol ,which is a puppy milk formula, available in Costa Rica ...to the Fox Valley formula (that we have almost ran out of)... in fact we have only enough Fox Valley for one or two more feedings . The newly ordered bag of F.V. is still in the mail... in transit to Costa Rica. The Lactol was introduced very slowly at 25% , then 30% and now it's up to 50/50. The problem has reached troublesome levels in the last 48 hours.. In the last 48 hours booho the gray boy has only had 13 poops while.... during the same time... DULCE ..The Golden Boy ...has had 72 poops DULCE has large well formed poops. But the little grey boy's poops were very small and hard. Buho has had days where he would only poop once or maybe twice the whole day ...so we have been alternating formula feedings with fresh fruit , not his favorite, but will eat it . Now being that he has refused to poop for 48 hours ..10 feeding sessions ...he's getting apple juice instead of formula in the hopes that will move his bowels. This is a listing of how often he pooped in the last 8 days----- last Friday 36 poops-- last Sunday Saturday 32 poops (quite normal)... last Sunday 5.....last Monday 19 ....and then Tuesday he had 37 poops ...(a great day for him)... then the trouble began.... On Wednesday 7 poops.... so we instituted apple juice .....Thursday only three poops.... he got apple juice again...between formula feedings ..then Friday ...early in the morning we actually got 12 poops at 1:00 in the morning.......... but then for the last 48 hours NOTHING AT ALL.....since Friday he said juice ....he's had a 15 minute soak in a hot tub ....he said two doses of FRESH coconut water ...we're hoping that the juice the coconut water and the fresh fruit would move him ..... but it has been 48 hours and we're very concerned. His belly isn't extended and hard... but I'm sure he's uncomfortable, and we're not sure if we should give him more formula or maintain a juice diet until we get the results.
Also, is soaking multiple times a day beneficial ??? or should we just do it once a day like we have been ??
So many questions... so many worries
...
please help
Any and all advice will be by considered
Thanks soooooo much
On Easter Sunday we were gifted with two baby eyes closed Costa Rican tree squirrels
The Golden Boy is called Dulce ..mand the little gray boy is called Buho.
The first two weeks of feeding them, and getting them on Fox Valley formula went fairly well , and their poop and their pee seem to be normal.. although fluctuating. Last Saturday we began slowly introducing Lactol ,which is a puppy milk formula, available in Costa Rica ...to the Fox Valley formula (that we have almost ran out of)... in fact we have only enough Fox Valley for one or two more feedings . The newly ordered bag of F.V. is still in the mail... in transit to Costa Rica. The Lactol was introduced very slowly at 25% , then 30% and now it's up to 50/50. The problem has reached troublesome levels in the last 48 hours.. In the last 48 hours booho the gray boy has only had 13 poops while.... during the same time... DULCE ..The Golden Boy ...has had 72 poops DULCE has large well formed poops. But the little grey boy's poops were very small and hard. Buho has had days where he would only poop once or maybe twice the whole day ...so we have been alternating formula feedings with fresh fruit , not his favorite, but will eat it . Now being that he has refused to poop for 48 hours ..10 feeding sessions ...he's getting apple juice instead of formula in the hopes that will move his bowels. This is a listing of how often he pooped in the last 8 days----- last Friday 36 poops-- last Sunday Saturday 32 poops (quite normal)... last Sunday 5.....last Monday 19 ....and then Tuesday he had 37 poops ...(a great day for him)... then the trouble began.... On Wednesday 7 poops.... so we instituted apple juice .....Thursday only three poops.... he got apple juice again...between formula feedings ..then Friday ...early in the morning we actually got 12 poops at 1:00 in the morning.......... but then for the last 48 hours NOTHING AT ALL.....since Friday he said juice ....he's had a 15 minute soak in a hot tub ....he said two doses of FRESH coconut water ...we're hoping that the juice the coconut water and the fresh fruit would move him ..... but it has been 48 hours and we're very concerned. His belly isn't extended and hard... but I'm sure he's uncomfortable, and we're not sure if we should give him more formula or maintain a juice diet until we get the results.
Also, is soaking multiple times a day beneficial ??? or should we just do it once a day like we have been ??
So many questions... so many worries
...
please help
Any and all advice will be by considered
Thanks soooooo much