[Stones] HEALTH: Diet for the stone prone?

[Elizabeth Williams]

I use Kay-tee Timothy based pellets, though Alfalfa is listed in the ingredients.  I haven't been able to find pellets with no Alfalfa.  Buckley gets a handful of pellets every morning, part of an apple once or twice a week, and huge piles of lettuce mixes (no iceberg, no spinach) about 3 times a week.
  
Her mother Lorraine also had calcium crystals in her urine (and we believe she had small stones as well).  Buckley currently has a stone about the size of the head of a pin (the ones with the white plastic heads) in her bladder.  (X-rays showed it for sure)  Does this sound like it would be too large to pass?  Our vet recommended surgery, though she said it was not urgent.  I am hesitant to put Buckley under anesthesia and I feel uncomfortable putting her through this surgery without a better plan for preventing the stones.  (she's only 3 and a half, so I'd probably go for the surgery anyway, but I don't like thinking that there's a good chance she'll have to go through it again)

How do you get your pigs to exercise?  Mine just want to lay around no matter where you put them.

Thanks for the advice.
    -Elizabeth





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