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Kootenay

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Never in my life have I been more embarrassed
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I had the best scratching/grooming session with my two horses today, and when I came in the house I felt something creepy crawling on me. I picked it off, an lo and behold it's a horse louse--YUCK--Double Yuck!. Buddy doesn't seem to be as badly stricken as Honey my quarter horse. I visibly saw them on her face--no wonder she's been so itchy--poor girl
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I called our local feed store, and got them to put their last container of de-lousing powder behind the counter. It's deworming time anyways, so that should help also. I have been around horses with those critters on them in the past, but never my own. I just feel terrible
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Anyone else dealing with these horrible squatting sucking creatures right now?

Starting to wonder if it's the old chicken area in the back of the old barn they broke into last week that's the culprit. The eggs could still be in that area could they? There hasn't been chickens in there for at least a year.

:Kim
 
Yuck! I sure hope you get that under control! Lice are icky and everywhere!
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Probably from the chicken coop. Did you disinfect it at all????
 
I didn't get a chance to clean out that barn in the fall. We were so busy getting the stalls in the other barn, that I just threw up some boards in the old barn in about an 8X6 "stall" in the front, and the rest was blocked off. The big horse I assume kicked down the boards, and they were both back there in that filth. I'm cleaning it out this spring, but that doesn't change the situation at the moment :DOH! .
 

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