Hair loss

[Zanzan]

So....Pepper developed the 'v' patch of thinning hair on her back and the vet agreed she needed xeno. All three of my pigs began the six week course of xeno on 20th May (so the third and last dose was a week ago). The thing is Pepper's hair looks exactly the same as it did when she started the treatment, no growth but no more loss. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this or are there pigs that just don't grow their lost hair back after mite treatment? The thing that puzzles me is the way it has stayed the same. She is fine in herself, behaving normally, no weight loss.

 

[Wiebke]

So....Pepper developed the 'v' patch of thinning hair on her back and the vet agreed she needed xeno. All three of my pigs began the six week course of xeno on 20th May (so the third and last dose was a week ago). The thing is Pepper's hair looks exactly the same as it did when she started the treatment, no growth but no more loss. I just wondered if anyone else had experienced this or are there pigs that just don't grow their lost hair back after mite treatment? The thing that puzzles me is the way it has stayed the same. She is fine in herself, behaving normally, no weight loss.
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It can sometimes take a while for hair to grow back and grow back to full length but it will eventually.

It takes a lot of biting deep sores into skin repeatedly to destroy the hair roots like my Pili Pala did more than once with her just healed over her large mites patch on the side of the back. Which was the reason why I ended up waiting for the adoption to go through for nearly 5 months and had it cancelled twice in the interim. But the good news was that the mange mites never came back and she lived a very happy life for the 5 years she had with me to nearly 6 years of age - considering the hellhole she'd come out of that was very respectable!