Best treatment for head lice

If you aren’t sure if it is dandruff or not, it could be dried shampoo/conditioner that wasn’t rinsed off the last time he was bathed. I don’t like using human shampoo on horses, it can dry out their skin and dull their coat. The pony I free lease use to have the absolute best coat, [...]

Pediculosis Infection In Horses There are two main types of lice: those that feed through biting and those that feed through sucking. Lice are small, flat-bodied insects. Fully grown, they may be only 2 – 4 millimeters in length, making them difficult to detect in early infestation. They feed from the waste given off by [...]

Head lice have plagued the human race since time began, it doesn’t matter where humans live, or what they do in life, a head louse will never be far behind. Head lice love nothing more than nestling into human hair, laying their eggs near the scalp and sucking on the blood from the skin of [...]

Lisa grew up with horses with her mother being an exercise jockey on the race track. By 4 years old, Lisa sat on her first stallion and started openly competing at the age of 11 and competed in her first national recognized USCTA event at age 14. In her teens, Lisa focused on hunters and [...]

There are two types of lice that can affect horses and both are highly contagious among herds. Biting lice feed on flakes of skin and hair particles while suckling lice actually penetrate the skin and live off your horse’s blood which can lead to anemia. Horses located in the northern part of the US or [...]

Warm weather is here, and so are the bugs! External parasites are those that live on, or get its food from a host, which in our case is the horse. Our horses are primarily affected by these parasites in warm weather. This is when flies, gnats, mosquitoes, chiggers, lice, mites, and ticks are most prevalent. [...]

I found this article… and it doesn’t make sense Mazie would have them. She’s only a month old–and she’s been groomed fairly regularly. And her dam doesn’t have them… neither does Tucker and they are together all day long…and she’s not stressed. The vet was here yesterday to give Chloe her WNV shot… and she [...]

Here you go the article I found on horse lice! Lice on Horsesby: Heather Smith ThomasFebruary 01 2005 Article # 5469 Article Tools Horses occasionally get lice, and a horse owner needs to know what to look for and how to treat these irritating parasites. Bill Clymer, PhD, of Amarillo, Texas (now a livestock parasitologist [...]

The head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is an obligate ectoparasite of humans. Head lice are wingless insects spending their entire life on human scalp and feeding exclusively on human blood. Humans and chimpanzees are the only known host of this specific parasite, but many other species of lice are known which infest most orders of [...]