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Hagrid and Hairy

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Hi,

I've got 2 young boars, Hagrid and Hairy Potter (they are Lunkarya - very hairy).

First time I've had guinnea pigs. I've had them 3 weeks - took them to the vets for a check-up and they've both been given Xeno50 spot on for parasites.

I applied it yesterday - the vet said to keep them apart so they don't lick the medicine off each other. So I've kept them apart overnight.

Any idea how long to keep them apart - or can I put them back together now, I assume the medicine has dried?

Sorry if this question is super obvious! I don't want them to eat the medicine and get sick!

Thanks for any answers!
 
Keeping them apart isn’t necessary. Put them together in a neutral area with just hay and thoroughly clean their cage out and rearrange it. Medical separation isn’t necessary and can sometimes cause stress.

As for licking the medicine off that won’t happen. Guinea pigs generally don’t lick each other, especially not where you put the medicine.

What parasite are they being treated for?
 
Ah, great! Thanks for the answers. I've just put them back together and they seem a lot happier.

I think it is just mites. Do you have to treat them multiple times? My vet just gave me the one application.
 
Yes you do. Call them and speak to them again next week. I believe the treatments are two weeks apart.
 
Yes you need to treat them 3 times as @alpacasqueak has mentioned. The Xeno only works on the live mites and not the eggs. So the live mites are all killed and then the eggs that they have laid hatch out and grow and then the 2nd dose kills them off. Then just in case the 2nd batch of mites have laid any eggs and hatched the third dose kills them off before they have had a chance to lay any eggs themselves.
 
For future reference the Xeno is applied according to bodyweight - so the vet will have weighed the boars to calculate how many pipettes of Xeno50 to use on each fluffy little fellow (love your names!) As they mature and get heavier the dose will increase... not in the next 2 weeks/4 weeks* but for instance if they pick up something in the future when they're big fat boys!

(*we treat 3 times, each two weeks apart. We put it mainly on the bald skin behind the ears and we've never separated - they don't lick anything off. It does go in the fur a bit - my poor long-haired girl looked like a pineapple afterwards!)
 
Free Ranger said:
For future reference the Xeno is applied according to bodyweight - so the vet will have weighed the boars to calculate how many pipettes of Xeno50 to use on each fluffy little fellow (love your names!) As they mature and get heavier the dose will increase... not in the next 2 weeks/4 weeks* but for instance if they pick up something in the future when they're big fat boys!

(*we treat 3 times, each two weeks apart. We put it mainly on the bald skin behind the ears and we've never separated - they don't lick anything off. It does go in the fur a bit - my poor long-haired girl looked like a pineapple afterwards!)
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Just me wondering?! Are you a vet/vet nurse?! Have meant to ask, you word things so much better than me!

I have seen licking and itching/grooming with my guys @Hagrid and Hairy but try not to worry if you do, I found with my four pigs that one (Luigi) had a bit of a jittery and jumpy reaction to his second treatment, the other 3 have been fine. I saw two out of four grooming too, (licking and grooming around the area) but it’s safe for them to injest, obviously not the whole treatments etc but a small amount with the necessary grooming they do etc. Not like you can stop them! (Well shouldn’t!)
I applied how the info told me, behind the neck and down the spine. If you have the ‘instruction’ leaflet definitely go by that :)
 
@alpacasqueak I'm flattered! But no. I did used to be a scientist and we had to write things in a certain way so that might be it. And taking in a pig here and a pig there as people round and about get down to their last ones means we've seen a few mites and lice in our time too! We've had some UTIs, URIs and stones... but there's other things we've luckily never seen - like ringworm or the dreaded bloat so I have no experience with these and I can offer nothing other than sympathy.
 
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