This is Peter.
He is about 2 weeks old.
He started loosing patches of wool/hair.
It was only in a small spot
the first day, but by day 3
his whole little body
was covered in patchy skin.
This being our first experience with mites, it took us a little while to figure out what was happening and how to help him.
This being our first experience with mites, it took us a little while to figure out what was happening and how to help him.
Handling him only with gloves, we applied a thick coating of Lotrimin cream, for athletes foot, about three times a day.
Suprisingly within a week he was healed and the mites were gone. We closely watched the other sheep and only saw a little spot on the udder of one other ewe, which we treated as well.
Peter was so sad looking for a couple weeks until his wool grew back. But there were no lasting scars or loss of wool.
