ok so I have 2 piggiess (Piggy Sue and Maggie Moo) that are about a year old each not siblings but got them from the same place at same time and they are about the same age according to the vet- one of them (Maggy Moo) is fine - she is normal and doesnt seem to have a care in the world. the other (Piggy Sue) is well i thought she was just simply neurotic as she is always jumping around and pop-corning and being crazy - shes always been one to scratch here and there but never anything major well about a 2 weeks ago she began to scratch a little more - i attributed it to just dry skin since the other piggy is fine well a few days later I came downstairs to find her with a gash on her back where she had scratched herself and it was an open wound. I have a friend who has many many animals including pigs so I called her and we sussed out what to do. I shaved the area so I could treat it treated the wound and made her a little sock dress to cover it so she couldnt get to it - well it was a success all healed no cut no infection whew right? wrong she got her sock dress off (ive been making her new ones every couple of days) while i was at work monday and had already started to scratch it raw again. i noticed some dry flaky skin and some hair seemed to come out easy with the skin - so I called the vet and they want 250.00 to see & treat the pigs bc they consider them exotics - well i just have had a round in the ER myself so needless to say right now i dont have 250.00 extra lying around - the vet said they thought it sounded like mites - idk id never have thought that since the other isnt itchy and scratchy and well ive had them over 9 months and its just now happening - but ok - so she told me to treat with ivermectin -
so ive found ivermectin (broken link removed) and am waiting on it to get here - my friend and i have been researching to find out dosing instructions and have found the GL site and this and hundreds more - but my problem is from all the reading it says 1% solution and the ivermectin I found is all 1.87% - i can weigh my pigs and have the chart https://www.guinealynx.info/oral_ivermectin.html but since mine is 1.87% not 1.0% im worried - any help? i just dont want to get it wrong.
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so ive found ivermectin (broken link removed) and am waiting on it to get here - my friend and i have been researching to find out dosing instructions and have found the GL site and this and hundreds more - but my problem is from all the reading it says 1% solution and the ivermectin I found is all 1.87% - i can weigh my pigs and have the chart https://www.guinealynx.info/oral_ivermectin.html but since mine is 1.87% not 1.0% im worried - any help? i just dont want to get it wrong.
first time posting here just found your site today so sorry if i did something wrong