Nick3439 83 Posted February 11, 2014 Report Share Posted February 11, 2014 (edited) Soooo after some concern my ferrets had got infested with Mites on there last outing I am confident that they walked themselves into and out of a nest of freshly hatched tick larvae; not having come across this before (just the 'normal' few ticks) but they have literally hundreds on them. They are normally fipronil'd (which should protect them from ticks/fleas) but due to my initially insecurity at what they were (a microscope revealed 6 not 8 legs so I ruled out tick initially not realising they start with 6) I bathed them with normal ferret shampoo (revealing hundreds at skin level, I've never seen anything like it) and treated them with ivermectin. Meanwhile the hutch was sprayed liberally with Pyrethin and pyremethrin and allowed to air whilst this was going on. So today I've come and checked on them there are a quantity unmoving in the bedding but also a vast quantity embedded and unmoving at skin level. I believe them all to be dead by my Agent Orange chemical warfare like assault... Yet they haven't fallen off. So my question is this and trifold: 1) Are they dead? 2) Will they drop off in good time? 3) Do they need to be manually removed to prevent infection (God knows how they are ridico tiny; standard de-ticker wouldn't work?) 4) Anyone else had an encounter with a tick bomb? 5) Isn't maths great. It is Tick Larvae though.... Isn't it?! Edited February 11, 2014 by Nick3439 Quote Link to post
bobcullen79 1,495 Posted February 18, 2014 Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 Could be bird mites, you fed any fresh birds to them? Quote Link to post
Nick3439 83 Posted February 18, 2014 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2014 I'm pretty convinced it was Tick Larvae and Ivermectin and a bedding change fixed them right up Quote Link to post
jigsaw 11,899 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 http://parasitipedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2657&Itemid=3032 would it possibly be keds,the goats I catch are covered in the dirty fukin things and ticks also,yukkkk!! Quote Link to post
jigsaw 11,899 Posted February 22, 2014 Report Share Posted February 22, 2014 (edited) https://www.google.ie/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=LmVrIwnnUJkdOM&tbnid=S7Gxf8Ox1HfsCM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fentnemdept.ufl.edu%2Fcreatures%2Flivestock%2Fdeer_ked.htm&ei=vfIIU86zGoPF7AaUyYGwBQ&bvm=bv.61725948,d.ZGU&psig=AFQjCNHzS2ROsyzL_HVinYfDl1Csn8aYRg&ust=1393181749450292 Edited February 22, 2014 by jigsaw Quote Link to post
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