This is little Drummer, who came in 5 days ago. He has a bad case of ringworm which is responding to treatment, and as you can see he looks a lot better than the photos we posted of him when he came in.
I have checked a faecal sample under the microscope, and this poor little guy has fluke and gastrointestinal worms too. He started treatment 4 days ago, and we hope he will be strong enough to pull through.
Good luck Drummer!
We had this little chap brought in last night, after he found it on a building site. This poor little
Flystrike (Myiasis) is a painful, sometimes fatal, condition caused by flies laying eggs on another animal, usually in wounds or on sick animals.
We receive many cases of hogs suffering with flystrike, and it is a very time consuming job to clean it off manually. Because of this, we have purchased a portable suction machine which will help us clean hogs with fly strike, among other things
Dr Sophie Lund Rasmussen headed up a team of researchers from Aalborg University, Natural History Museum of Denmark – University
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