Ear Mite Treatment

[Longslides]

My neighbor and I raise rabbits together. His buck has a bad case of eat mites. Can ivemectin be used to treat ear mites? If so, please explain. Also prevention of the other rabbits in the rabbitry. Thanks

 

[SatinsRule]

If you experience ear mites on one rabbit, you need to keep an eye on everything else in the barn while you're at it. On my last outbreak of it, I wound up with about 5 rabbits that needed to be treated.

For me, it was as simple as applying either VetRx or Mineral Oil with an eye dropper directly into the ear. It will likely take a few doses on each rabbit to get rid of it.

 

[A&BRabbitry]

I had a buck with a bad cae of ear mites that the drops and ointment wouldn't take care of. It would almost completely be gone at the end of the topical treatment and then it would come back. An Injection of .5ml for every 5lbs of ivermectin subcutaneously cure it right up. First step with ear mites though is isolation. Move in infected animal far away from the heard and hope for the best. This is very rarely an individual outbreak. Although if caught soon enough damage can be minimized.

 

[Miss M]

You can also give ivermectin orally, even if it is the injectable kind.

Generally, about a pea-sized lump of it. Smallish pea for a little rabbit, largish pea for a large rabbit.

Dutch rabbits cannot take ivermectin.

If it is not a bad case, you should be able to get by with the mineral oil treatment, though.