Hairless Tails

[cymruguy69 5]

Iv'e got two hobs and recently they've started to lose hair on their tails. their are in a brand new hutch they are free from fleas and ticks and also their crap is cleaned out, detoled and washed everyday.

 

Iv'e treated them for fleas and red mite but it doesnt seem to have done the trick. Does anybody have any idea what this could be?

 

Cheers

 

Cymru

[Guest Magwitch]

'Rat tail' on a ferret

 

Some ferrets lose most or all of the hair on their tail every summer. This phenomenon, called 'tail alopecia,' is most common in males. The tail begins to look like a rat's tail, with scaly skin, sparse, bristly hair, and blackheads. This is a very unattractive but harmless condition with no known cause. Many nutritional, medical, and dermatological remedies have been tried, and sometimes the hair grows back, with or without treatment. Usually when the ferret changes his coat in the fall, the tail hair regrows, but he is likely to lose it again the next spring.

 

 

 

its probably this mate

[Kay 3,709]

yes its not uncommon & as Mag points out it will probably grow back when they get there winter coats

[stubby 175]

our "buster" lost hair on the tail, rat tail looking as magwich says, we started giving the ferts a large container filled with water to bath in, which ill add they love, within a few weeks and its back to normal

although we also thought it was cos he was pine'ing for the rest of the group when he got the rat tail he was on his own, cos the jills both had litters, the re growth came in conjuction with us putting him back in the court, plus the bathing, he changed from an old codger, to a young- un with a spring in his step

[Hob&Jill 258]

Mine had this, as they said, Just rat tail.

[cymruguy69 5]

Cheers guys not worrying now