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<blockquote data-quote="Hippie Rancher" data-source="post: 746474" data-attributes="member: 4203"><p>I've never looked for lice on a black animal, but you can usually see them crawling around on other colors, especially white faces - look around face and tail head.</p><p></p><p>A less toxic way to treat is diatomaceous earth or plain old wood ashes - we dump our fireplace ash in a pile near the corral for them to get to. They will rub in it and paw it up on their backs. This is for "normal" winter lice - they pretty much clear up anyway with warm sunny weather. Now a sickly dogie may get them real bad and they can kill a weak animal. That situation requires more serious chemicals - be sure to read labels!</p><p></p><p>As others have mentioned, fungus can cause similar symptoms - insecticides and/or vermicides won't help, but sun will.</p><p></p><p>Cattle can get mange too (an even smaller bug than lice) but I believe it is pretty rare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hippie Rancher, post: 746474, member: 4203"] I've never looked for lice on a black animal, but you can usually see them crawling around on other colors, especially white faces - look around face and tail head. A less toxic way to treat is diatomaceous earth or plain old wood ashes - we dump our fireplace ash in a pile near the corral for them to get to. They will rub in it and paw it up on their backs. This is for "normal" winter lice - they pretty much clear up anyway with warm sunny weather. Now a sickly dogie may get them real bad and they can kill a weak animal. That situation requires more serious chemicals - be sure to read labels! As others have mentioned, fungus can cause similar symptoms - insecticides and/or vermicides won't help, but sun will. Cattle can get mange too (an even smaller bug than lice) but I believe it is pretty rare. [/QUOTE]
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