Willow, who is white with two distinctive grey splodges, was suffering from fly strike, an ailment more commonly associated with rabbits.
You can avoid fly strike by making sure you clean out the hutch regularly, apply preventative medication to the coat and always check on your rabbit AT LEAST once a day.
The sheep lack the wool and the folds of skin between the legs found on normal Merinos, and so are relatively immune to fly strike.
Definition of fly strike in US English:
fly strike
noun
Infestation of an animal with blowfly maggots.
(动物)蝇蛆寄生,蝇蛆侵扰
Example sentencesExamples
Willow, who is white with two distinctive grey splodges, was suffering from fly strike, an ailment more commonly associated with rabbits.
The sheep lack the wool and the folds of skin between the legs found on normal Merinos, and so are relatively immune to fly strike.
You can avoid fly strike by making sure you clean out the hutch regularly, apply preventative medication to the coat and always check on your rabbit AT LEAST once a day.