I am not a vet. The orange gunk in the ears sounds like ear mites. Your vet can look at a swab under his microscope and tell for sure and mix you up a...

It's ear wax, nothing wrong, you just need to clean her ears. People have a variety of ways to clean, with with special ferret ear cleaners or mineral oil (I...

It sounds like ear wax to me. I believe ear mites tend to make the ear more crusty/bloody. My rabbit had it one time and it was NASTY, there's really no...

... More than likely, her ears are just in need of a cleaning. I clean my ferrets' ears every two weeks. Some barely get dirty at all, and some are...

Another perspective - my vet told me that the recent thinking is that ferrets' ears should not be cleaned because it creates more problems than it solves. The...

... Interesting. I've had multiple ferrets for over 15 years and religiously clean their ears every two weeks. Of the 35+ ferrets who have lived in my home...

I amy be able to help a little on that score, but don't know the original paper or talk. A few years ago I heard from vets who had run into that hypothesis,...

... original paper or talk. Thanks, Sukie. Since things work well for us the way we do things now, I guess I'll continue. I am currently using a tea tree...

My reservation about tea tree oil is the same one I have about lavender. Because of breast development in some young male teens it was found that both have...

I would exercise caution in using Tea Tree oil because of its known toxic, sometimes fatal effects if ingested. See: http://www.messybeast.com/teatree.htm ...