Feather's finally starting to eat AND drink. He was fed at 10 pm last night and was still peeing up a storm at 9 am this morning. There's no way that he would still be peeing from his syringe feeds, so he must've been drinking water. I delayed his morning feed to 11 am and instead gave him a pile of grass and hay. He happily spent a couple of hours munching on that and when he stopped (for a nap) I gave him his syringe feed. He had 50g of syringed food without a problem. He was only 787g this morning as well, but I think if I can get him eating more food himself he may start to gain. Because I want to encourage him to eat solid food he didn't get 'lunch' until 4 pm and had 55g of food. This is the first time he willingly took food from the syringe. He ate a couple of syringes (about 6mL) entirely of his own volition before I had to go back to steadily forcing him to take it. He now also eats mouthfuls of grass between the syringes. It seems his favourite flavour is berry and grass.
He is still crying when he pees, but it's not the scream he has been doing previously. He's exhibiting virtually no pain when he poos now and his poos have returned to proper solid pig poops. He also no longer screams when we touch his abdomen, he doesn't even bother to stop chewing.
The other change is up till now he's spent all his time in a cozy, often with his head buried in the back and butt hanging out. Now although he still wants the snugglesafe he won't go near the cozy. I think this more than anything else shows that he's feeling a heck of a lot better.
So he'll get his dinner at about 9pm and I'll aim for another 55g or so of food to take him up to the requisite 160g. I'm avoiding overdoing it as I want him to feel hungry and eat on his own. Eventually if he keeps improving I'll start scaling back the size of the feeds down to about 30g each and then cut him back to two feeds and so on until he's on one small feed a day.
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