I'm ready to just give up, I'm feeling so gutted

[Fii]

Oh no! I'll be itching all night now.

I am scratching now!!

 

[Adopter]

So sorry for your little ponies. I am sure you will get it sorted, lots of help given above. Good advice to wash everything and change bedding, and re do to make sure you break the egg cycle.

Mine both had lice, but Blue X sorted before they came to me thankfully. My feral cat is always getting fleas, every time he catches a rabbit he is covered again, so sometimes it is a long job, but it goes with keeping animals.

Hope your new job works out, and you stop worrying, it will be ok, but if you are worried get vet again for reassurance. You seem to have done really well so far.

 

[muckypony]

Did you dilute the Deosect? When my vet prescribed it I was told to dilute it as its very strong neat

That was for fly repellent though, not sure if it can or should be used neat for other things but its worth double checking if you arent 100% sure

Yeah I diluted it as it said to on the bottle, very strong stuff as its to be diluted on a 1:50(ml) ratio.

Mine both had lice, but Blue X sorted before they came to me thankfully.

Do you know what they used to get rid of the lice?

 

[Silent Knight]

the diosect is brilliant. make sure that you dilute properly. it can strip paint neat! you beed ti do it again in 10 - 14 days to kill any new hatching s. follow the instructions presicley. there are twi types of lice. biting and sucking. ivomectin injections do not really help if you have the biting lice. and louse powder does not kill them it is only a repellent. use it on your equipment and stable. the stuff the vet gave you is just the ticket and will fix them.

 

[staceyn]

I used the deosect every week for a month eventually it got rid but all rugs had to be washed headcollars brushes I soaked in it, they can be a pain to get rid but just keep doing it until they are gone

 

[Spanish Eyes]

muckypony, please don't beat yourself up over this.

My very long-haired PRE got lice last year, and she is is in a stable herd and never meets any other horses, so I can only think she got them from rabbits or foxes. Apparently they are rife this year because of the warm moist weather, and are particularly attracted to long-haired coats.

I used Coopers Fly repellant, and after the first application the little blighters vanished completely. I rugged to stop my girl biting herself. I re-applied as instructed (I think a couple of weeks later), but they all seemed to have gone by then. (Oh, and I treated the other two horses the same, and sprayed rugs, washed headcollars etc.)

I have a friend who breeds shetlands, and she told me that she routinely treats all ponies for lice as a preventative measure.

 

[amandap]

How are the foals this morning? Hope their little visitors aren't feeling too good.

 

[Adopter]

Also wondering how the foals are this morning?

 

[muckypony]

Sorry guys, been at work (day 2 of my new job) and spent any free time i had with thw boys.

They were much the same this morning when I got there, very itchy and uncomfortable but I had a good look and they hadn't made themselves bleed where they were itching and their skin was no worse than what it was last night. So I just put them out as normal and they were still itchy but not trying to throw themselves on the floor! Got them in at lunch time and they were a little less itchy but still irritated around their flanks.

Tonight they seem much happier, not itching andwhere near as much and I gave them a real good groom as their coats are quite matted from them itching so much overnight I've had a good look through their coats, there are so many dead lice sitting in their coats! But there are also live ones still I'm guessing these are ones that have hatched overnight as nothing was alive last night! Will there still be some deosect lingering on their coats which will kill these ones??

I just want them to be lice free now poor ponies I'm not sure whether to use the Deosect again in 2 weeks time or use somehting else? I was told by a vet I shouldn't use anything else that goes on the skin (like Coopers or Frontline) until 2 weeks time as the chemicals are so harsh.

 

[smac]

Deosect the best- its what the vet perscribed. I would ring and ask re about the new live ones this morning.

I made up a spray bottle, of well dilluted deosect & sprayed as and when required then gave full bath in deosect on day 14. then 7 days later a bath in Carr &Day insect shampoo.

I wonder if they will itch with the dead ones ?! I woulnt really worry about stables etc until the 2nd attack.

Your doing the right thing.

Enjoy your new job

 

[dressedkez]

Do not worry too much, they will scratch - just as my cushings pony, has almost up-rooted a telegraph pole in his field.....the weather is mild, he has masses of coat - what else is he going to do? Much the same with your ponies - and it becomes habitual - have you anywhere you can you can put them, where they can't scratch, and so lose the reflex? I would also say don't be afaid of clipping them if you can handle them happily?

 

[Queenbee]

Op, I know it may seem a bit extreme, especially since they are only seven months old, but if it were me, (and I have done this with a very hairy cob that came to me with lice) I would get them a sedative from the vets and clip them out fully, buy them a couple of little rugs for this winter. I know it's not ideal, but it will solve the issue, and then you can get around to preventing it from happening in the future. Clip them out, rug them, perhaps use deosect on the mane and tail and trim and treat the legs or clip them out too. Chuck out the old beds, disinfect grooming kit and stable and put new bed down. Hopefully that should do the trick x

Scuse the pun but poor little mites (the ponies I mean)

 

[Merlin11]

My vet advised me to use switch when a couple of loan horses arrived with lice. It worked really well and had no problems. You just apply it to the mane and tail. It got rid of them after a couple of applications. May be worth a try. Washing them with an insecticide shampoo also helps. hope you get it sorted.

 

[Irishcobs]

My vet told us not to mix diocect with louse powder, so if we had already used louse powder to wash it off, dry and then apply diocect. Apparently the chemicals can react and burn.
Not sure how true this is but as a precaution we never mixed them.