It is formulated to squirrel sized dosing, and is a 30 day supply for the pecan squares and 100 doses for the drops. Thank you so much for your reply!This is the first real advice i have received since she started getting sick. My six year old female nibbles her toes in the winter and is missing fur on a couple of them. Their ears are tiny and somewhat circular" ( source ). Im looking forward to trying coconut. your website is very good for me. Hi, Sasha! Just an old buck with the puffs. They also have a white tail with a tuft of hair at the end. An occasional piece of fruit like apple, banana, frozen If you are talking wild squirrels, it is better to use Ivermectin paste, because you are not going to be able to get close enough to put a drop of flea drops on a wild one. I can only hope she returns in good health but if she does, than i will know she is ok and if not, then I will assume she being far more tame than most, might have led to her trusting to her allowing a predator too closeor equally bad, she has passed due to the problems u suggeste. Regards, Justin, Hi Justin! Unfortunately I cannot get him to eat any treated nuts. A Vet wrote and told me this. Do you think the Ivermectin paste would help her? Bill, I have noticed over the past year or so my colony of squirrels I feed have been losing their hair.not all of them, but a few. I don't think you have anything to worry about unless the squirrel is sleeping with you. I'm so proud and happy to say all the squirrels here have no hair loss after the worst winter in history recorded in New England! I search through his fur and find nothing. Mary, that black mulch was the first thing that came to mind re: your cat`s problem, as Bill mentioned. It is found in conifer forests and mixed woods throughout the northern and western United States and Canada, in the Rocky Mountains, and in the Appalachians as far south as northern Georgia. Hi, But when i got closer, I noticed he was missing a bunch of hair and his skin appeared wrinkled and hard. What do you think I should do about this? Thank you SO MUCH for your speedy reply. What can be done for the squirrel? Will the coconut oil you mentioned for topical use work to help him stop itching and if so how do i go about applying. He does not scratch at those areas and we have not observed any other concerns like lice etc. This was not Mange, but rather a battle wound where a chunk of fur was pulled out. Bill, Thank you so much for replying Ive been so worried about this poor little guy, I have just one more question I just thought of, my squirrel has lost quite a bit of hair on his neck and shoulders is there such a thing as too late? Today there are little bumps that seem to have spreAd thru that pink area. Bill. Im so sorry i have another question, could you tell me how to give them the coconut oil and avocado? My house is backed to a large park and we have been taking care of our local squirrels, such as providing them with water and food, especially during winter and a very cold spring this year (I live in Maryland). Bill. He was in my backyard crawling around when I found him. Bill. Yellow eyes Light colored breast White speckled wings. They have a white stripe along the side of their torso, highlighted with black markings both above and below the stripe. Albatrosses. I would love to be able to treat these wild squirrels with the medicine you suggested but since I have so many squirrels it would prove hard to keep track of which ones I gave a dose to. I sure hope not :-(. and she is a tough one to treat. Her belly had been completely bald and is now completely covered with really soft white hair. He eats sweet potato green beans broccoli avocados sliced fresh corn on cob, well everything is cut up fresh for him daily. with a small population in Alaska as well. The weather here is starting to get very cold. The only acceptable terms I'm allowed to use are things like "Immune Challenges," which will probably be outlawed over time also! Fleas and lice are always in abundance on squirrels and can make them itch a lot. Since it is a wild animal I'm not certain as to how to successfully give it any form of treatment. I'd treat this creature with anti-biotics via a peanut/peanut butter tube I have mounted. She would be perfectly fine, then all of a sudden would go ballistic, chucking and alerting and running all over my body. He got me another good one yesterday. It seems that every time a few get this they die and I wont see any affected squirrels for a while and then it starts again. Hair normally protects the squirrel from the effects of the sun. If you have already ordered Ivermectin from me, and would like to go the flea drop route,( which I recommend,) just let me know and I'll issue a refund through PayPal. Squirrel synthesize Vitamin D the same as humans, by direct exposure to sunlight. If a female feels threatened or unsafe where she gives birth, she will move her babies to a back-up nest. As long as it is raw and non-hydrogenated, it contains over 50% Lauric and Capric acid which has been found to be anti bacterial, anti viral and anti fungal. Hi Tanya! Thank you very much for your response. I've been bitten numerous times, almost always because of my own fault, and I've never had even deep bites get infected. I'm trying to find an organization that will take it and rehabilitate it and release it but, if I can't find anyone to take it, then I would like to know what I could do. If the squirrel does have nasal discharge check its mouth for overgrowth of the lower front Incisors teeth. Bill. He's a one person squirrel. As the worm crawls out of the ring, it fills the ring with eggs and sperm. I don't know whether to have him neutered and keep him or try to send him back to the wild when he gets older and the weather is warmer. To be clear, I didn't plan to toss treated nuts around the yard and hope for the best. Bill. A really good diet is required to keep a squirrel healthy as well as a daily source of calcium. One has lost all the fur on its tail. You can relax, your animals and birds cannot catch the Mange Mites that are on squirrels. In one week, you repeat the process, feeding as many as show up at once, making sure they each get one, then stop again for another week. Dru, I`ve raised many flying squirrels, as well as ground squirrels. I have researched myself into oblivion finding that some full spectrum lights do not provide the UVB and reptile lights are too potent, and on and on. Nectar and small insects and spiders are the preferred food for this species of hummingbirds. Is it possible to overdose? http://imgur.com/ZCddyVQ The first dose that I gave her made a tremendous improvement. Hi there! Kale He takes other foods like, If you are convinced to keep him, neutering would probably be the best all the way around. had him about 4 days. They measure 16 to 20 inches in length, and weigh up to 1.5 pounds. With the ones in the houses I've made, I've simply placed the treated nut meat on their entrance balcony, and have my cameras recording so I can make sure the squirrels are only getting one treated nut. I'm contacting the animal control on Mon. Give him a dose of Ivermectin, and I bet it will start going away and normalize.You can read about treating it here: I can't stand to see these little creatures suffer. Romane Lettuce Thanks for any suggestions. Ringneck Snake. His belly and area around his rectum are inflamed, and even a bit bloody. Bill. But they are clearly being driven mad from itching. William Sells is a Registered Nurse turned Squirrel Rehabber and Nutritionist. I sent him some drops to give orally everyday and he started on March 2 of this year. Am I being too impatient? If you'd like I can send you some "high quality" pictures of the spots so you can see for your self. Since his back legs arent super strong, he topples over a bunch. His calcium intake is just what he gets from the foods and rodent blocks in his diet. So I took her for the tests etc, turns out she has an enlarged fatty liver which is genetic. Bill, Good morning William, your page is awesome, lots of info. I can't catch and treat my squirrels, they are not tame and if I did put a live trap out under the tree I might catch a skunk, a racoon a woodchuck or even a possum. Aside from being writer for Wildlife Informer, she's an avid bird watcher as well as the owner of several pet reptiles. If it's mangy boy, problem solved. We feed them black sunflower seeds and a commercial "squirrel food" in the form of a log of pressed corn. We used to put Cod Liver Oil in our Nut Square mixes for the Vitamin D, but we found that oral supplementation was not enough. We rescued him as an orphaned baby, and nursed him back from pneumonia. I have no patience waiting :( I think I need go find it some where else . May 2014 We have been blessed with a healthy little fellow. Her incessant scratching stopped and the hair started growing in on the places she was chronically bald, ( like the tops of her paws.) I understand a gray squirrel molts twice a year, once from top to bottom, the other time from bottom to top. I started putting the ionic silver and coconut oil on him already and he's not too happy but I'm trying to prevent. We have a mix of gray, black and red squirrels. What would be the best kind of nuts? The African ring-necked dove is native to Africa and is suited to many environments, including woodlands, farmhouses, open plantations, and acacia tickets. White-tailed jack rabbit; Mice, voles and rats. If the paste dries on nut meat for a day or more, do you know if it renders the paste ineffective or less potent? When a second squirrel developed the same condition, she started treatment and it was cured. If the squirrel spends most of its time indoors out of direct sunlight, the Vitamin D levels drop and this can cause hair thinning. It's usually our bear skin that he licks but occasionally he will also lick our clothes. Hi Valerie. They are pretty smart. Females: They have a green crown, neck, and back. He chatters and raises his backside and grabs my arm and hand more aggressively . My husband and I had our neighbors bring us a baby squirrel probably around 4-6 weeks old. Time is very important! Thank you! Oh, it also dehydrates the skin leaving it wrinkly and very dry. (I read the article in the blog about mange, but I don;t think that's what this is.) They consume flowers, buds, fungi, bark, and nuts, but they will also eat bird eggs, and meat in the form of frogs, insects, and young birds. Guess what! We put Cod Liver Oil in our Nut Square mixes to help supplement some Vitamin D in their diet. In addition to my comment,it also looks like she has scabs on her front paws. Appreciate the response. Do you have any idea what could possibly be causing this to the ears of the male squirrels? Will that work if I make nut balls or something with it? If you copy and paste your above question into the e-mail it will help me remember this conversation! It sounds like your squirrel may have a Vitamin D deficiency. If your 1ml syringe is marked in 100ths, then the dose for a 450g squirrel would be ONE hash mark MAX. How dangerous is it if one squirrel gets more than one dosage? I have only noticed because i have never seen Robins on my property before but for the past two months have been watching 2, a couple I assume, walk back and forth on the property as if they own itlol..Never saw them before. Please help me. Further questions: Bill. The Ivermectin did nothing, so last Saturday when I fed her, I took a closer look with my reading glasses on. Blueish-grey dorsal with a deep orange or . I'm not exactly sure what is going on with your squirrel, but I can make some suggestions. Now today I see it and there is even more fur missing :( It's on its face now and on back of its head. White Tailed Antelope Ground Squirrels (aka..Hiking in Las Vegas! Sorry to hear about the problem you are having with Clyde! The Douglas squirrel is much smaller than any of the gray squirrels. She had 2 babies over the next winter, I was also looking forward to meeting them but suddenly she just stopped visiting. came from his nose ,whiskers shook. 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