Spots

[Charlielikespasta]

Ok so my Guinea pig has some brownish spots all over his back. They are not mites but I am not sure if I should be concerned about them. He could just be really dirty but the specks are really hard to get off of his fur.

 

[Wiebke]

Ok so my Guinea pig has some brownish spots all over his back. They are not mites but I am not sure if I should be concerned about them. He could just be really dirty but the specks are really hard to get off of his fur.

Hi and welcome

Unfortunately, we cannot really tell you based just on your comments without any other access to your piggy. It is basically speculating based on your own speculations.

For which reason have you excluded mites, or actually more precisely rather hay mite eggs? Neither mange mites (trixacarus caviae), which burrow their eggs in the increasingly inflamed skin, nor the less invasive hay mites (chirodiscoides caviae), which fix their tiny dark eggs to hairs, are visible to the naked eye.
Have you felt with your fingers when going down a hair whether the spots feel like minute beads fixed to the hair?
Or are the brown spots sitting lose in the coat and are therefore something else?
New piggy problems: URI - ringworm - skin parasites
Guinea Lynx :: Fur Mites

PS: You can upload a preferably clear and well lit picture that also shows clearly where the dark spots are located on the body by using the Attach Files button underneath your post when write it. This works with any format since our forum is not part of social media - it may be a small drawback but we have other advantages instead.