My horses manes look so awful from it. I am lucky they are not really furry, though. The ones at work are like hairy bears!!! So hard to get the lice off them!!! At least mine are not as tough a job as that. But I do have clippers, if it comes to it. I love the natural look for horses, but I remember how cute my horse called Flicka looked when she first arrived, with a zebra mane!!! So cute, that growing out hogged look on her.
Kim xxx
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From: Dorothy McGowan <ctnghrsldy@yahoo.com>
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 7:17:13 AM
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
You're welcome..... I bought a yearling filly about 20 years ago...she was literally crawling with the little things.....yeck! ! It was late winter and a bit chilly but I body clipped the winter hair off (including her mane...just roached it...was thick and there was no way I could be sure of getting them all with all that hair!), put her in a pen by herself, burned all the clipped hair and cleaned my clippers really well (and got a shower for me immediately! )...treated with ivermectin and then waited for a reasonably warm day.....bathed her with a couple sudsings of dish detergent, dried her out and dusted the heck out of her....checked and not a bug to be found two days later. Rewormed, bathed and dusted in about 10 days on the theory that once was good, twice was better. She filled in, haired out nice and slick and was a great little mare that two owners down the line sold to Europe for a tidy sum (I made a fair profit on her as well).
Dorothy
Colored Cowhorse Ranch
Lovelock, NV
www.coloredcowhorse ranch.com
Docs Producer Leo, AQHA foundation bred perlino
Colonels Diamond Chex, APHA buckskin tobiano
Ima Streakin Doc, APHA bay tobi Doc Bar grandson
Muchacho Pintero, APHA sorrel tobi Doc Quixote grandson
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Kim Hollingsworth <kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au> wrote:
From: Kim Hollingsworth <kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au>
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 11:35 AM
Hi Dorothy,
Thank you for the advice re NOT mixing powders with shampoos!! Well received in time!!!
I have found Sevin dust on the internet and it appears to be available in Australia. I actually read that Sevin dust does not even harm bees...
Cheap liquid dish detergent sounds a lot cheaper than the expensive brands we have here for horses, it gets ridiculous at times!
Kim
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From: Dorothy McGowan <ctnghrsldy@ yahoo. com>
To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 2:39:55 AM
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
Don't mix powders with the shampoos.... .you can shampoo with something simple such as liquid dish detergent (don't know your brands there but I use the cheapest I can find here)... pretty much kills the adult lice. Dry off after the bath and then dust with powder.....leave the powder in...it will kill off newly hatching baby lice. The Sevin dust has carbaryl as the active ingredient (10%)....if Sevin is not available there you could look for something with the same active ingredient. It is used mostly for garden/yard work and kills something like 65 different varieties of insects....lice, fleas, ticks, ants, cabbage worms etc. Great stuff at very reasonable price.
Dorothy
Colored Cowhorse Ranch
Lovelock, NV
www.coloredcowhorse ranch.com
Docs Producer Leo, AQHA foundation bred perlino
Colonels Diamond Chex, APHA buckskin tobiano
Ima Streakin Doc, APHA bay tobi Doc Bar grandson
Muchacho Pintero, APHA sorrel tobi Doc Quixote grandson
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Kim Hollingsworth <kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au> wrote:
From: Kim Hollingsworth <kim_hollingsworth@ yahoo.com. au>
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 1:28 AM
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
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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
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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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Sonja
SC's Paint horses
Tipton Mo,65081
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