Ear Mites in One... treat them all?

[TF3]

Well, poop.
My Cali buck has ear mites.
The doe I got from the same place was culled with snot weeks ago, so Roy is on thin ice.

Roy has some crusties just starting to appear in the canal (I noticed he had scratched his ears and went looking for the cause).

The cages are all wire, no bedding etc. to harbor mites.
They have tons of air flow and ventilation (screened in porch, open cages).

He is in a corner hanging cage, above my growouts, with a next door neighbour up top (the doe he bred last week).
There is a plastic sheet over the pen below, but still easily could pass mites, i would think.
I have a doe and kits in the same hanging set up (2 bucks, 4 growouts, 2 does, one litter a week old) and a buck loose in the rabbitry, plus hlops in separate cages.
It is safe to assume that everyone could be contaminated as my daughter plays with everyone (although she isn't allowed in the adult cages, and would avoid Roy anyway, he is big and scratchy LOL).
None of the others have any visible signs of mites.

Honestly, separating him right now would be my least best option (I have 3 does coming in on Saturday to use up all my quarantine cages and space),
and everyone could have got them already.

I am thinking about giving all the cages a sanitizing clean with vinegar or diluted bleach and treating the whole bunch with oil.
Does that make sense?
Does the affected rabbit need a more intense treatment?
I would just leave the week old kits alone, yes?

At home I have sunflower oil, oil of oregano, vinegar and of course I can get mineral oil, olive oil, acv
or whatever is needed and do a full sweep to all the adults and weaned buns.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?
How would you proceed?

 

[Zass]

Here's my experience with ear mites.

I brought home some kits from a familiar rabbitry a few months ago. We found a surprise case of ear mites on a senior doe that day.

I treated all the rabbits with olive oil and dusted below cages with DE. (Both the new quarantined ones, and the ones who were already here, as a preventative measure)

I repeated the oil treatment about 10 days later.

It's been a few months since than and no one has mites, redness, itchiness, etc.

The rabbits I brought in may not have actually had any mites to begin with, but the treatments didn't harm anything, or take up too much of my time.

 

[TF3]

Oh! DE, yes, I have a big bag of it I'll sprinkle under the lot of them.
That's what I'm thinking, not expensive or a huge hassle.

 

[Miss M]

I would treat at least him with the sunflower oil. I do not know about rabbits and oil of oregano (they can eat oregano, though), because it is medicinal.

You could do oil in everybunny, or just his neighbors, or just watch and see. I have had one rabbit get ear mites and none of the others a couple of times.

I wouldn't sanitize the cages. But that's just me.

 

[TF3]

Thanks!
I'm thinking I won't do the cages either~ my mother arrives for a visit tomorrow and that is enough stress LOL
And with the wire, really, there isn't much for them to live in (like with wood, straw etc).
I think I'll just do the sunflower oil, I have it hear and it is cheap

 

[Miss M]

Yes, that would be enough to think about!

The sunflower oil should work just fine. With the bun that has them, I'd repeat once a week for a month, just to make sure you get all the eggs. Sometimes, once is enough, though.