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Australia mites treatment

shajadaz

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Okay ive noticed that my oldest guinea pig has somekind of moving yellow thin tiny mite and i also noticed a sore well a healing one right at back of her neck maybe from th ebugs?
anyhow in ausralia do i get
Ivomec (Ivomectin)
from vets the swallow kind not wash, and should i treat the babies and my other girl? they dont seem to have it?:)




 

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I see ads for it at farm stores in Australia, but they don't say whether you can get the oral kind. There isn't such a thing as a wash kind, as far as I know. There are three ways you can give it to guinea pigs -- orally, by injection, or by putting a dab behind the ear.
 

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i might just get the revolution.
 

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Be sure to get the kind for kittens.
 

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Yeah I got the kitten one, maybe just put a drop on her and rest on cat? Hehe
 
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