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chinnyboo

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could it be fungus?
« on: March 15, 2008, 05:59:14 PM »

Hi everyone :) I've had Noel a couple of months now and for the past month I've noticed each of his first toes on his back feet are bright red, have very little hair. I pushed on them earlier and it seemed like they were a big scab ready to come off at any moment  :-\ He's in a cage with a drop down pan, although I did have him in pine shavings for a while. I'm thinking it's fungus, what do you think? Any suggestions would be very appreciated.
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Re: could it be fungus?
« Reply #1 on: March 16, 2008, 05:27:58 PM »

I'm not a lot of help as I haven't seen it yet myself.
I would rub a little athletes foot powder on them to see if that will help clear it up.
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Re: could it be fungus?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2008, 02:15:42 PM »

You need to sterilize the cage and the dust bath because if you don't, the spores can reinfect the chin. Then you can put some anti-fungal in with the dustbath and clean out the dust bath everytime until the fungus has completely cleared up.
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