Who worms their guinea-pigs?

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This is something I've never done and TBH I didn't know was done.

I read on a website that they can pick up worms from grazing (passed from other animals that excrete on the lawn where GPs graze).
Makes sense when I think about it. Horses need to be wormed and they are grass eaters.
Do rabbits need wormed?

I haven't seen anything untoward in their droppings ,and they both give me plenty of oppurtunities to examine their poohs as they happily pass waste when we cuddle them.

TIA

Hi 70 I worm my pigs every 6 months. I got drops from Cambridge Cavy Trust. Also give them oral ivermectin every six months from CCT too.

mine are about 5/6 now and i never have but then i suppose you never know when a worm ridden cat has done a shit in your gsrden.

Rabbits should be wormed as well. I've never done my rabbit as she has a fixed run that no other animal can crap in.

Never done my guinea pigs as we have a big dog that ensures no cat poo in our garden. The dog is wormed.

ohh, I've never heard of that before either. And our lawn is regularly peppered in fox poo What is the oral ivermectin silver73?

never heard of that.

But are parasitical worms animal specific?

Can a GP catch worms from a fox pooh? (Whatever species of worm lives in fox)

Our cat caught a tick from a hedgehog, so they're not fussy who they hitch a lift from. But could a GP catch anything from a wild rabbit?or a fox? (I'm thinking mange here.The foxes round our way are all mangey little blighters)

Oral ivermectin for mange mites funny - injected would be vet prescribed.
How do you you get the oral treatment down a GPs throat? silver? Do you syringe it in? Is it better than drops on the skin? (Like Frontline type application)

I buy ivermectin drops for the chickens online. No prescription needed.

Funny - the oral ivemectin prevents pigs getting mites. It is just two drops on their tongue every 6 months. I got it from Cambridge Cavy Trust.

70 the wormer is a couple of drops from a dropper so not a problem. I do a trick that a rodentologist showed me. You wrap them up like a baby so they cannot move their paws and cuddle them. It stops my girls from getting upset as it seems to soothe them.

Not sure about the worms that pigs can get. I've got a vets book on pigs but not had a chance to read it yet.

I've never routinely wormed 'pigs, but do routinely worm bunnies (panacur), more for e. cunicula than worms, though. Having said that, I do work for a pet chain, who called me the other day to say a PM showed a tapeworm ina hamster! So currently all hamsters being wormed with panacur. Would be off-licence use, though, but then so is ivermectin.

I've just got an order of Xeno 450.
It works on internal and external parasites.(but not ringworm).
The boars haven't got anything, but having read a few threads on here, I'm doing a preventitive and pro-active strike.

I'm going to wait till DD comes home from school though because she would want to be involved (and the hogs will fall out with me Big Time if I dose them with this).