My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

She is about 4 and 1/2 months old and has another cagemate.

My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

If you have missing patches of fur, you more than likely have mites. you will need to see a veterinarian to get ivermectrin, this will clear up the mites, mites if let on treated will continue to get worse, and they will continue to scratch which will cause open sore, as the scratch the sore they will get larger and larger and they will get a secondary infection. We see this all the time; with owner turn-ins and animal cruelty cases that come in to our rescue,

My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

The rats probabley got in a fight

My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

many of us go bald at different junctures in our lives, it's okay, its just natural

My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

Check for parasites. If not keep an eye on them and make sure they are not fighting.

My rat is losing hair on the back of her neck. Please Help!?

Please have a read of these articles -

http://www.afrma.org/rminfo1.htm

http://www.rmca.org/Resources/faqs.htm#T...

http://www.rmca.org/Articles/smallfriend...

http://www.rmca.org/Resources/mousefaq.h...

I hope that maybe you can also find more contacts from these websites. And very, very best of luck to you and your rat.