Sorry Me again! Wilma dry skin questions this time!

[Hannah_xx]

Hi AGAIN everyone!
Sorry I seem to be making lots of threads lately..

So now with Both the girls that I took for a health check last week seem to be causing me concerns since!
This time I have questions about Wilma. When I got Wilma a few weeks ago I noticed she has very slightly crust/dry skin around her eyes. I put it down to her living outside in an open run and seem to have almost gone since being here.
The morning that I took her for her vet check (Thursday) I noticed that she had dry feet! So I showed the vet and she suggested that it could just be her adjusting to a new diet, fleece bedding and now living indoors etc. She never really suggested if there was anything I could do about it and Wilma got a clean bill of health..
Well tonight while feeling for her ribs as I was concerned she was slightly podgy I’ve noticed that she has dandruff and very itchy skin! Now I’m quite certain that she doesn’t have mites as I can’t see any nor does she show any other signs of having them. And the other pigs are not showing signs either.
I know I should take her back to the vet to get the dry skin issues checked out, but I’m slightly reluctant as my vet has clearly missed checking for quite simple things.. She’s a lovely vet though so I don’t want to complain.
The only exotic vet is away for 2 weeks and I’d rather wait for him to get back before taking any of the pigs back to the vets. (Unless of course there is an emergency)
So in the meantime is there a safe moisturiser I could try on her footsies to see if it helps?
I’ll keep an eye on her skin to see if it clears up and is just due to a change in her lifestyle.

It was extremely difficult to get a photo of her feet so I’m very sorry this is the best I can get for now.. it’s on all four feeeties!..



This is her dandruff after me scratching her, which she was going mad for pulling my dressing gown as I was doing it..


OH AND.. she has a fleshy eye thing going on in one eye. Again, I showed the vet and she said to just keep an eye on it.

And here she is tonight just because she’s cute..



Thanks for any advice

 

[Gem789]

Hi AGAIN everyone!
Sorry I seem to be making lots of threads lately..

So now with Both the girls that I took for a health check last week seem to be causing me concerns since!
This time I have questions about Wilma. When I got Wilma a few weeks ago I noticed she has very slightly crust/dry skin around her eyes. I put it down to her living outside in an open run and seem to have almost gone since being here.
The morning that I took her for her vet check (Thursday) I noticed that she had dry feet! So I showed the vet and she suggested that it could just be her adjusting to a new diet, fleece bedding and now living indoors etc. She never really suggested if there was anything I could do about it and Wilma got a clean bill of health..
Well tonight while feeling for her ribs as I was concerned she was slightly podgy I’ve noticed that she has dandruff and very itchy skin! Now I’m quite certain that she doesn’t have mites as I can’t see any nor does she show any other signs of having them. And the other pigs are not showing signs either.
I know I should take her back to the vet to get the dry skin issues checked out, but I’m slightly reluctant as my vet has clearly missed checking for quite simple things.. She’s a lovely vet though so I don’t want to complain.
The only exotic vet is away for 2 weeks and I’d rather wait for him to get back before taking any of the pigs back to the vets. (Unless of course there is an emergency)
So in the meantime is there a safe moisturiser I could try on her footsies to see if it helps?
I’ll keep an eye on her skin to see if it clears up and is just due to a change in her lifestyle.

It was extremely difficult to get a photo of her feet so I’m very sorry this is the best I can get for now.. it’s on all four feeeties!..

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This is her dandruff after me scratching her, which she was going mad for pulling my dressing gown as I was doing it..
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OH AND.. she has a fleshy eye thing going on in one eye. Again, I showed the vet and she said to just keep an eye on it.
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And here she is tonight just because she’s cute..
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Thanks for any advice

Is she a rex? I've got 2 rexes and they both have dry skin(I think it's common in this breed) . The dandruff shows up more on my dark coloured boar jimin than my white sow fuzz. I'm not sure about dry feet though. I've never really noticed it on mine.

 

[Merab]

Can’t advise but I know @PigglePuggle has a piggy who has feet issues.
Wilma is so cute

 

[PigglePuggle]

Wilma is defintely very cute
Personally I would be worried that the dandruff looks a bit excessive to just be dry skin, I would defintely be asking the vet to look at that under a microscope to rule out hay mites/lice and send a dermatophyte culture off for a fungal test- just to make sure.
Jezzy floof has dry skin and crusty feet but we only concluded that after tests and precautionary treatment for mites, fungal and bacterial skin infections- sometime Jezzy has flaky rosette middles but nothing ever as severe as you are seeing in Wilma.
If the feet are just dry skin you can use gorgeous guineas foot ointments, or even just vaseline, with a view to preventing the skin cracking and becoming infected- and the whole thing may just be dry skin of course- but I wouldnt settle for a dry skin diagnosis as definitive without seeing some negative fungal and mite tests first and trying a course of antibiotics in case she has a bacterial skin infection x

 

[Hannah_xx]

Wilma is defintely very cute
Personally I would be worried that the dandruff looks a bit excessive to just be dry skin, I would defintely be asking the vet to look at that under a microscope to rule out hay mites/lice and send a dermatophyte culture off for a fungal test- just to make sure.
Jezzy floof has dry skin and crusty feet but we only concluded that after tests and precautionary treatment for mites, fungal and bacterial skin infections- sometime Jezzy has flaky rosette middles but nothing ever as severe as you are seeing in Wilma.
If the feet are just dry skin you can use gorgeous guineas foot ointments, or even just vaseline, with a view to preventing the skin cracking and becoming infected- and the whole thing may just be dry skin of course- but I wouldnt settle for a dry skin diagnosis as definitive without seeing some negative fungal and mite tests first and trying a course of antibiotics in case she has a bacterial skin infection x

Thanks piggiepuggle!
The thing is, her skin doesn’t actually appear to be dry, it just seems to be danddruffy in her hair after I really give her a good scratch. I’ll take a closer look at her skin tonight!
I’ll definitely take her to a vet if there is no change in the next week or 2. I’d much prefer to wait for the exotic vet to come back from holiday.