ferret has orange spots

[John-B 4]

where do you live mate????

 

If you want to pick ticks off you need a specialist tool called a tick twister, readily available from ebay etc etc, you would know about it if your ferret had ticks, i'll try and get some pictures.

[John-B 4]

 

thats a tick and about the size of a match head.

[John-B 4]

[Kay 3,709]

http://www.bada-uk.org/

 

Read this.

Even if its not ticks.

I carry the pickers everywhere.

 

Excellent site for tick info , makes you realise how they can effect your life if you dont remove them correctly

[Guest AngelicAcid]

Very true Kay, there used to be a sticky, not sure whether its still there or not.

[Kay 3,709]

Very true Kay, there used to be a sticky, not sure whether its still there or not.

 

its my sig shall i make it bigger

[Funfuret 1]

my ferret has yellow, orangey brown , and black spots on its skin, not on its belly just on its back, i think the black ones mite be ticks but i dont know for sure,and i dont know what the other ones are, might be flea eggs but dont know for sure,,,, does anyone know ??

 

thanks

 

You can check for fleas by combing with a fine comb over damp white paper. If fleas are around, there'd be flea dirt (effluent) around and you'd get red (blood -like) marks spreading out from the black bits on the damp paper.

[ferreter1 1]

thanks for the replies

[Quixote 9]

build up of oils, sweat and scent.

 

Interesting! I've only ever had neutered hobs, so that's something I've not come across in over 20 years! Every day's a schoolday, huh?

[ferreter1 1]

build up of oils, sweat and scent.

 

Interesting! I've only ever had neutered hobs, so that's something I've not come across in over 20 years! Every day's a schoolday, huh?

lol.... have you never had a un-neutered hob in 20 years

[Kay 3,709]

I found it in both but more so in the entire hobs i have had

[silver ferret 0]

orange spots on the skin sounds like mites to me, you need ivermectin :-)

 

I just had a ferret in with over 100 tics, they can cause lyme disease if left. Nasty little buggers they are. we managed to pick 63 off before he got fidgety, frontline has had the rest of them dropping off.

 

If you get some ivermectin you will see those orange spots dissapear, he will probably need 3 treatments though 3 weeks apart, the first treatment kills the living mites, the second kills the eggs as they start hatching and a third just to make sure although sometimes you can get away with just the two.

[mattydski 560]

orange spots on the skin sounds like mites to me, you need ivermectin :-)

 

I just had a ferret in with over 100 tics, they can cause lyme disease if left. Nasty little buggers they are. we managed to pick 63 off before he got fidgety, frontline has had the rest of them dropping off.

 

If you get some ivermectin you will see those orange spots dissapear, he will probably need 3 treatments though 3 weeks apart, the first treatment kills the living mites, the second kills the eggs as they start hatching and a third just to make sure although sometimes you can get away with just the two.

 

 

In my opinion the marks shown in the photograph are exactly what John B says they are..It is dried oil etc. Thats not to say that all orange spots are..but these are representative of the problem John describes. I agree it is difficult to show from photographs.

[Kay 3,709]

orange spots on the skin sounds like mites to me, you need ivermectin :-)

 

I just had a ferret in with over 100 tics, they can cause lyme disease if left. Nasty little buggers they are. we managed to pick 63 off before he got fidgety, frontline has had the rest of them dropping off.

 

If you get some ivermectin you will see those orange spots dissapear, he will probably need 3 treatments though 3 weeks apart, the first treatment kills the living mites, the second kills the eggs as they start hatching and a third just to make sure although sometimes you can get away with just the two.

 

 

In my opinion the marks shown in the photograph are exactly what John B says they are..It is dried oil etc. Thats not to say that all orange spots are..but these are representative of the problem John describes. I agree it is difficult to show from photographs.

 

Totally agree Matt i also used to get hobs with globs of dirt on the very bottom on the fur right near the bit that goes into the skin , just a build up of oils & stuff

[silver ferret 0]

Just a suggestion from my experience, as you say its difficult to tell from the photo. My friends ferret turned orange last year, she paid a fortune for skin scrapings and they were mites.

 

Well the orange is actually the dirt, mites are invisble to the naked eye. Had a few like that myself and its cleared up with ivermectin.

 

Of course im not making a diagnosis, it may well be oils but thats just what i have experienced in the past.