My horse has mites please help!!

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Hi guys my cob came to me with thick feathers and mites, so far I've had an injection off the vet for the mites and I've clipped all his legs, I wash his legs every other day and put mite powder on them but still not getting any where also all his rugs have been washed any advice would be great :)
 
Funny time of year for it. Switching to shavings or wood pellets really helps. You often need a set of injections, not just one. you need to totally gut his stable,get rid of all the old bedding, and wash it all down with a good disinfectant like Jeyes Fluid.

Some people have used frontline with success, others pig oil and sulphur (please do a patch test if you go this route!!)
 
Clip a complete ring around all legs about an inch or two wide, and as near in the feather line as you can bear to go even with scissors will do, just to expose the skin as much as possible. Spray Frontline on the skin area that you have exposed. Worm with and Ivermectin wormer. Repeat in 10 days.

Works a treat but resist the temptation to keep slapping stuff on in between the two treatments, it won't help and might even hinder. His legs need to be kept 100 per cent dry for at least 48 hours after spraying.
 
MrsJingle said:
Clip a complete ring around all legs about an inch or two wide, and as near in the feather line as you can bear to go even with scissors will do, just to expose the skin as much as possible. Spray Frontline on the skin area that you have exposed. Worm with and Ivermectin wormer. Repeat in 10 days.

Works a treat but resist the temptation to keep slapping stuff on in between the two treatments, it won't help and might even hinder. His legs need to be kept 100 per cent dry for at least 48 hours after spraying.
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:eek: nooooo, please never remove feathers. They are the best protection a horse can have on it's legs. However I do agree with frontline but use the pipetta. Works a treat and easy to use even with feathers on, but washing will only make it worse. Believe me our Belgian draft has mega feathers and the two treatments did the trick. Not Seen any since!
 
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lol Kikke! I know exactly what you are saying and I am glad the pippetes worked for you, they didn't for me. Hence my suggestion to reveal open skin for the spray to get in contact with. It is possible to clip and inch wide area in a line completely around the lower leg if you tie the feathers up above the line you are going to clip, and then the upper feather just brushes back down over it and is hardly noticeable until it all grows back.

I am another full feather lover so I do appreciate your sentiments about taking ANY of them!
 
I've dealt with mites and so far been able to leave the feather on. It was 2 injections 10 days apart along with frontline spray a week later, if I just rely on the injections it doesn't work for more than a month. I then use pig oil and sulphur once a week or so. I current,y have a premixed version from a company that specialises in feathered horses. I use wood pellet bedding, annoying when I had to throw the bed away but I love it as bedding and it helps clean his feathers when he comes in.
The frontline spray is harder to use when leaving the feather on but I carefully separated lines of feather and sprayed to the skin and rubbed in well.
Also Theresa_f emailed me some info which is really good advice
Good luck :(:)
 
I've recently (touches wood) been having really good results for a lime sulphur dip. You put it on very week, I had my boy injected also, and so far so good! Best he's been in eighteen months.
 
As soon as "mites" is mentioned on here, someone somewhere recommends "pig oil and sulphur", you can be sure of it; HOWEVER can I suggest extreme caution as when I used it on my boy (white legs/pink skin) he reacted very badly to it.

I'd suggest you patch test first and leave for 24 hrs; apparently its the sulphur rather than the pig oil which causes the problem so you could always try leaving that out - I can use pig oil with some tea tree, or even better Neem Oil coz parasites hate the stuff - on my boy's legs.
 
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