Lice treatment

[Rhondax6]

Our baby nigerian has lice. I got Python Dust from our local co-op, the only thing they had for goat lice. Is it ok? Is it ok on a baby?

Thanks for any adivce offered!

Rhonda

 

[mully]

I know it is safe on young dairy cows, I would put a little on and see if they have a reaction. I always call the mfg when i have a question regarding their product but be advised the will often times tell you to call your vet.

 

[Rhondax6]

Thank Mully, calling the mfg is a great idea!

 

[cmjust0]

I once had to use python on two newborns.. They were just barely dry and already covered in lice from their crappy ol' no account scrub goat excuse for a mother.

Indeed, lice was the only thing they got from her. Stupid piece of crap goat...

Anyway, the Python didn't hurt anything but the lice, and I flat out laid on those babies. Big bunches of it...rubbed it around good, too.. Didn't bother the babies one bit.

The lice, on the other hand, had a terrible reaction to it -- stopped right in their tracks, dead as doorknobs.

 

[Rhondax6]

How about diatomaceous earth? A goat herd owner told me that's what she uses and it works great. Anyone else have the same experience?

 

[cmjust0]

I've never heard of it not working, and I would bet that it works just fine... I do know that it takes a while, though, since it works by getting into the nooks and crannies of the louse's exoskeleton and making them...leak...to death, as it were.

If I were you and I'd just introduced a new goat to my other goats only to figure out that the new goat had lice, I'd bomb everything with some form of pyrethrum. New goat, old goat, bedding, housing...anywhere a louse could hide, I'd hit it.

I'm not even a big chemical guy, generally speaking, but lice are just creepy and I can tell you for damn sure that if I had lice, I'd bomb myself with the fastest, most brutal, most technologically and scientifically advanced jug of whatever I could get my itchy little hands on.

Therefore -- even at the risk of being viewed as a kook for looking at things a little too anthropomorphically -- I won't deny my goats the same treatment.. Maybe they don't care about lice...maybe they get creeped out.. All I know is that lice are to die, and die quickly.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand now I'm itchy all over.

 

[Rhondax6]

LOL Good point.

 

[helmstead]

Seven dust works, too. If the kid is 4+ weeks, you can also treat with Ivermec, which will not only deworm but also kill the lice.