Hi everyone!
I need advice as I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Ok, around 5 weeks ago I noticed my two boars (1 year old) were scratching excessively. There were tufts of hair in the cage so I suspected mites. I got some Anti-parasite ivectermin from Pete at Home, gave them two pipettes each into their skin and left them.
I’ve been repeating this every Saturday, every since. That’s four lots of treatment now and they are still scratching. It’s definitely not as much as it was, but still scratching.
Some days there is no scratching and I hope that we’ve conquered it and it begins again?
In between these treatments, I’m cleaning their cage every single day. Some days I’ll lay it with newspaper, sawdust, straw and hay. The following day they’ll have some fleece, pillows etc then they’ll go for a hot wash and so on... always a clean cage. I’ve bathed them once during this period as they were very smelly.
I cuddle them every day and can’t see any lice, what I can see is tiny specks of white or brown - like dandruff or dust. Not everywhere - about two specks per boar and that’s when I look all over their bodies. Please help me!