Fleas on goats

gcarmack2001

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I don't know about fleas as I'm not sure that goats get them, but I have dealt with lice. They are species-specific so you don't have to worry about them getting on you. I use a dust similar to Sevin Dust on ours when they have lice but I'm in an FB group where a lot of people use Cylence or Ultra Boss (a pour-on.) I think the Cylence or Ultra Boss would be a lot easier than the dust (which you have to lather on every inch of their bodies) but we've never been able to afford those so we stick with the dust.
 

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I don't know about fleas as I'm not sure that goats get them, but I have dealt with lice. They are species-specific so you don't have to worry about them getting on you. I use a dust similar to Sevin Dust on ours when they have lice but I'm in an FB group where a lot of people use Cylence or Ultra Boss (a pour-on.) I think the Cylence or Ultra Boss would be a lot easier than the dust (which you have to lather on every inch of their bodies) but we've never been able to afford those so we stick with the dust.
I like the cylence but the poster has young children and I really would worry they would get this on their hands and possibly by their mouth. That would not be good.
Whenever we use straw we seem to get mites, not lice, but mites... ugh... of course that is always in the winter when we needed the extra bedding... to our surprise the DE did great, I can't say we got it over every inch of them but what we did do worked well.

For warm weather I still think the permethrins is the best way to go.
 

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I like the cylence but the poster has young children and I really would worry they would get this on their hands and possibly by their mouth. That would not be good.
Whenever we use straw we seem to get mites, not lice, but mites... ugh... of course that is always in the winter when we needed the extra bedding... to our surprise the DE did great, I can't say we got it over every inch of them but what we did do worked well.

For warm weather I still think the permethrins is the best way to go.

I apologize, I didn't see the part about the young children. We use masks or cover our mouths with our shirts to keep from inhaling the dust, and my brother has asthma so he isn't allowed to touch the goats or breathe within a five-hundred feet radius close to them for a while, LOL.
 

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I apologize, I didn't see the part about the young children. We use masks or cover our mouths with our shirts to keep from inhaling the dust, and my brother has asthma so he isn't allowed to touch the goats or breathe within a five-hundred feet radius close to them for a while, LOL.

Good to know about the asthma as DH has that too. You didn’t know but we have three young kids, 6,4,2 and the goats are like dogs. Our youngest also has extensive medical (and other) issues so we don’t take any chances with her. SBC knows her story. ;)
 
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