Well what a day chasing lice treatments!!!
I went to the supermarket first, saw the price of the garlic bread and decided that I could buy some bread, margarine and the bottled minced garlic and organic crushed garlic as a cheaper alternative for so many horses!! So they will get that when the bread is a day old. 6 loaves of bread and huge tub of margarine and 4 bottles of garlic!
Then I saw a bar of coconut oil soap so I got it just in case I found nothing else.
Then came across the white vinegar, got 4 large bottles of it.
I saw a shampoo with coconut oils as one of the top ingredients, so got that. It was not Suave though.
Then found some coconut cream 100% and got 4 cans of the stuff. Most of the cans were 50% coconut, so I found a 100% one.
I went to 4 garden centres, absolutely nobody had heard of Sevin Dust and all the stuff on the shelves had a different ingredient and was marked toxic or low toxic, but had all animal warnings on the back, so I could not find it anywhere.
I then went to the saddlery to see the prices of lice treatments compared to the internet prices I could get it at. I almost died!!! A pour on to treat 2 horses was $40 at saddlery, only $27 on internet!!! All of the saddlery stuff was hideously expensive, so I have decided to order via internet, should what I could pick up today fail to work for my horses.
I looked everywhere for coconut oil and gave up, then saw an Asian grocery store and thought I would try!! 3 large bottles of coconut oil waiting in there for me!! YAY! 100% coconut oil. I was so excited!!!
So, that was all I came up with on my shopping spree. I found great prices on the internet for any further treatment that I need, so would have to settle for Ince Pestene dust for animals with lice, some sort of wash for lice and a pour on for my difficult horses, but at least it is all there on the internet at good prices, should what I picked up today not work for me. Oh and the wormers I will get off the internet, too, as they are heaps cheaper for me. Wouldn't you think the saddlery would use its brains and when I said I have 29 horses with lice needing wormers and in addition annual vaccines, that they would use their business sense and take the sale at the internet prices??? No, so they missed out on a near 4 figure sale by not price matching, silly in my opinion!!!
I checked out the human lice preparations and some are based on natural oils and some are based on chemicals, too.
Well, at least I got a start today, shall let you know how I go!!!
Thanks again so very much!!!
Kim xxx
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From: Lori Mardis <mcquade@ohio.edu>
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 5:17:29 AM
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
If they haven't been wormed in a while you'll want to start off with a
'lighter' wormer (safeguard or strongid) first then move on to the ivomec.
At least that's what my vet told me when I rescued one in bad shape.
Lori
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Kim Hollingsworth <
kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au> wrote:
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am so grateful for all the suggestions! !
>
> It has really helped me to cover every horse...as I do rescues, there are
> some horses here that do not wanna know about a hose or shampoo, so that's
> why the garlic bread I am hoping, will do the trick for them. Then I will
> move up each level, but these difficult ones I may have to resort to one of
> the expensive pour on liquids down their back, as they won't allow much else
> at this stage in their lives.
>
> The rest of the horses I can handle ok, so I am so excited I have many
> options of solving this problem for them. Whatever is simplest, easiest and
> cheapest I will be trying first, then move up as I go. But I am buying the
> lot today, as I need to have it all there, ready to go as I move up the
> levels, without overloading them ofcourse.
>
> But definitely worming them with ivermectin as suggested, found the correct
> wormers last night on internet, but going to go to saddlery store to see if
> cheaper today.
>
> I can't thank you enough for all of these excellent ideas, I will let you
> know how I go!!! It will be a laborious exercise, but well worth it for my
> babies!
>
> I have learnt so much!!! Let's see what works for my babies!
>
> When I posted this message for help, I felt so daunted with it all, but
> here I am after all of your suggestions, really excited and feelin very
> positive about it, as you have all collectively covered all the horses, esp
> the difficult ones in my herd. And oh yes, it is springtime on Sept first
> here, so yeah, I want them lookin good, thank God I can wash them if I need
> to!
>
> Kim xxxx
>
>
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
>
> From: Kim Hollingsworth <kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au<kim_hollingsworth% 40yahoo.com. au>
> >
> To: askavet@yahoogroups .com <askavet%40yahoogro ups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, 27 August, 2009 6:28:18 PM
>
> Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
>
>
> Devorah, Sonja and Dorothy,
>
> Thank you all so so very much!!
>
> Wow, the garlic bread sounds very interesting! !! So, while I am waiting
> for my order to arrive (I had ordered stuff thru my sister who is vet nurse,
> but now she says they can't order certain things or something, so back to
> square one with ordering, damn, I was hoping for wholesale prices).....
> tomoro I am going to buy a tonne of garlic bread and let it go hard for a
> day, as any topical applications will have to be done next week at any rate,
> as I am working dawn to dusk doing trail rides until Monday/Tues.
>
> Then I will have to order my stuff via internet, I guess, but I will pop
> down to garden centre to see if this dust is available in Australia (Sevin)
> or the other horse specific one at horse saddlery tomoro just to see if I
> can find anything on special and compare prices. If not, I will have to
> order off net, as I waited long enough for my sister, and it is not fair on
> the horses.
>
> They just happen to be overdue for worming (was waiting on money!) so
> ivermectin it is for this round of worming!!! I can do garlic bread
> tomorrow, and my next free day is Tuesday afternnon, so I will worm them
> then and Wednesday will be the labour intensive stuff of maybe a normal
> shampoo, dry and powder, starting with the worst of them.
>
> Now someone suggested mixing the powder into the normal horse shampoo and
> shampooing, rinsing off after ten mins? Has anyone tried that?
>
> The pour on stuff is going to be so expensive as you said Dorothy, I may
> just get that for the horses that do not tolerate being bathed actually, but
> hopefully the GARLIC bread will do the trick before I get to that stage.
>
> Lots to do, but I couldn't have done it without all your help!!! I will
> certainly let you know how I go!!! First stop tomoro, garlic bread.
> Tonight, check out internet prices (29 horses!) and tomoro check prices at
> garden centre and then saddlery.
>
> Thank you all so much!!! I already have a shampoo for dermatitis for dogs
> (ok for horses). called PYOHEX (chlorexidine based)...would it be TOO much
> to mix the powder with it, or better to shampoo seperately, then just
> powder?
>
> Thanks so so so much!!!!
>
> Kim xoxoxo
>
> ____________ _________ _________ __
> From: Sonja Carson <scspainthorses@ embarqmail. com>
> To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 August, 2009 10:20:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
>
>
> I got to thinking about the lice , what we actually used was for chickens
> we bought it at the local farm and home, i can't think of the name of it
> though it's been so long ago now .
> sonja
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: dominionracingstabl es
>
> To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
>
> Sent: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:33:51 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Subject: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
>
> Years ago, I bought some sale horses who infested my mare herd with lice.
> Topical appliations did not help me. I discovered a cure purely by accident.
> We had a food back for the community at the time and some day old, hard
> garlic bread had been donated. It was too old to give to people so we tossed
> it to those horses. The garlic got rid of the lice entirely.
>
> Let me know what happens,
>
> Devorah
>
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>
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