Coconut oil smells bad to the lice plus it eats away at them. If you do find
the oil, mix it in with the dish soap and apply it to a DRY horse. The dish
soap will smother them, and the oil will eat at them. Let that set for 10
minutes or so then wet to a good lather then rinse well. Then pour white
vinegar and let that set for a couple of minutes then rinse and comb. Lice
love the roots of the mane and tail, so make sure you apply liberally to
them areas.
April
-------Original Message-------
From: Kim Hollingsworth
Date: 8/27/2009 2:55:26 PM
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
Hi there April,
I am with you on the chemicals, I am as vegan as I can be and gee it is hard
to even face the prospect of hurting the lice deep in my heart. Even
worming gets to me.
I looked everywhere via internet trying to find Suave shampoo available in
Australia, but it is not here anywhere...other Unilever products are, but
not Suave. But I am guessing the coconut oil is the magic thing, not so
much the actual brand name. So I may try looking for a bottle of coconut
oil and I guess I could add that to Dorothy's suggestion of cheap dishwash
liquid? I will try at the health food store.
And something as simple as white vinegar removes those eggs? wow!
I had no idea I had so many options when it comes to lice. In my heart, I
would love to wave a magic wand and watch them jump off and live on a cloud
in the sky or something, happily ever after.
Well I now have lots of choices to make, depending on what I can find today.
We simply do not have the variety you guys do, it is hard for us. But I
have made a big list!!!
The garlic bread is my first stop! I will try the simplest, natural things
first and move up from there to more involved stuff. Let's see what I can
get my hands on. At the very least I can keep whatever I do not use for the
horses at work or for next time round or donate to another horse rescue
Thank you so much!
Kim xx
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From: April <syiara@truvista.net>
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, 28 August, 2009 2:58:23 AM
Subject: Re: [AskAVet] Re: Whole horse herd has lice!!!
I have a thing about using chemicals as topicals. What works good for lice
is coconut. Use Suave naturals coconut shampoo. Coconut oil eats the
exoskeletons of the lice. Then rinse with white vinegar. The vinegar
releases the glue from the nits so they slide right off. Vinegar for hair
also cleans it of residues from shampoos, conditioners, and everyday
pollutants in the air. Olive, tea tree, peppermint, eucalyptus,rosemary ,
and
lavendar oils all mixed together with Suave Naturals Coconut shampoo is a
safe natural way to cure lice on animals and humans. It always worked for me
with 1 treatment.
April
-------Original Message----- --
From: Dorothy McGowan
Date: 8/27/2009 12:40:58 PM
To: askavet@yahoogroups .com
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
----- 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
--
Sonja
SC's Paint horses
Tipton Mo,65081
http://www.freewebs .com/scspainthor ses/
Surgeons General Warning: Horses are expensive, addictive, and may
impair the ability to use common sense.
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