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my winter whites balding!!!

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Question
i have a winter white whos 1yr n 3 months old. he's been balding at his head, near his eyes and near to his testicles!!! currently ters haze in my country due to a neighbouring country's forest fire n the psi is ard 143 so im wondering wats happening to ma boi n whether the weather's got something to do with it n wat shuld i do about it...PLS HELP!!!

Answer
the best thing to do is to take your hamster to a vet. How is his skin? Is it pink or scaley looking? If it's scaley looking than he probably has mites and the only way to get rid of these type of mites is to go to a vet becuase the mites that your hamster may have live under the skin and cause your hamster to scratch and have red scaley looking skin. If his skin is pink and looks normal than he could be having a reaction to what's in the air. The vet is really the best place to go. Was he fine before the forest fire started? Did he start losing hair after it began? If so than you could relate his balding to the fact that the forest fire is really irritating him and causing him to have some sort of skin irritation.