Funny skin on female llama........... ?

[chickenzoo]

My female llama started to get like a crusty skin down the inside of her legs, down to her feet, around the skin on her tail and on her top of her nose (where halter sits) - well that might be sunburn. Her lower legs look a little swollen also... I sprayed her down with iodine wash.... I'm not sure what's going on... bacterial infection? It has been very hot here....None of the others have it.... She was wormed about 4 month ago with liquid Safeguard. She eats sweet feed, as all mine do and what she was always fed when I got her.... She eats Coastal hay mostly. I have a young llama born in Dec that trys to nurse off her and she lets him..... other than that she is healthy looking and acts normal.....

 

[ksalvagno]

MITES!

What you need to do is scrub her skin to get the crusty stuff off, then get Frontline spray and spray her. You do the spray 3 times with 10 days inbetween times. This seems to be the only way to get rid of it.

 

[chickenzoo]

Mites........... how do they get that.... I hope not from the chickens, they get ivomectrian pour on. I'll get some Frontline asap...... I thought it was more like rain rot in horses..... shows how much I know...

 

[mully]

Mites live in grass and she might have contracted it there. Check the others for signs. Mites have become resistant to traditional meds I like need oil and turmeric cream work extremely well. Tea tree oil has a calming effect on the skin an is good as a overall treatment for the legs. Take care that you don't get it as mites are a problem for people as well and can spread in families.