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Post by loopylou on Mar 22, 2008 13:31:46 GMT -1
I have had an itchy pony for a couple of week nows, and to begin with put it down to the amount of coat she was shedding, making sure she has had a good groom nearly every day. Well now she has really got to itchy for that i think it is more than just molting and even rub a huge patch away under her neck. Scratching every where else and got lots of little scabs everywhere.
I have never had a pony with lice or mites or anything like that. Could it be this or something similar?? How did she get it and what is the best thing to treat it with??
Please help, been trying to search the net, but just feeling so itchy myself now that i have got to stop, LOL.
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Post by zeldalithgow on Mar 22, 2008 15:20:32 GMT -1
Sounds like it might be lice, Prince(and prob Daisy) had them recently I used cattle Spot On and it seems to have worked, I was talking to my vet about it and he said that Flypor is the same as Switch so it would be preferable to use that if I needed to again
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Post by JoM on Mar 22, 2008 18:46:52 GMT -1
When I bough D he was infested! I used the dermoline stuff - and WOW!! Washed the 1st time, and saw nothing - used it again the day after and you could see the little sw*nes abandoning ship!! YACK!! But good stuff!!!!
Dancers 1st bath of the year is always with a full bottle of Dermoline!
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Post by dalesponyrider on Mar 22, 2008 19:05:32 GMT -1
A pony got moved to the next paddock to D and was itching like mad. In a few days D started itching too and I suspected lice. I used spot on for cattle and D stopped within a couple of days. I persuaded the other ponies owner to use it too and that pony got better quickly. He had bare patches on his neck too.
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Post by tinkerdorisalison on Mar 22, 2008 19:52:02 GMT -1
I need to do my lot too, one of our neighbours donkeys (well all of them I suppose) had lice a while ago, and while they do not touch (they scarper when the ponies appear) they sometimes eat fron our hay feeder. Was going to get powder but might try the Spot On
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Post by PonyGirl on Mar 23, 2008 2:43:33 GMT -1
I didn't know this.
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Post by harleydales on Mar 23, 2008 11:10:38 GMT -1
Spot on is good stuff, but not licenced for horses as far as I know. I use it a lot.
Harley is covered in ticks already!! He will be doused in Spot on after our ride next weekend.
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Post by loopylou on Mar 23, 2008 15:24:46 GMT -1
Thanks everyone
No spot on isn't licenced for horses, but is very effective. The only thing i think you have to be very careful, is if a mare is in foal, got a foal at foot, or soon going to the stallion, then you should not use it.
Well i had a close examination when you came in last night, poor thing was comfirmed to have lice. Off course poor thing is really, really itchy now, and being Easter vets closed and everywhere else. My mother in law found an old tin of something, so we have used that, and scrubbed her stable and treated that to. Poor wee thing.
Off course i just can't stop itching either and it is total all in my head, LOL
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