Horse people, lice question

[Arabiansnob]

So I had a doe I bought who didnt know she was pregnant and she kidded March 4 and it was pretty cold out and in my goat shed I dont have electricity so i couldnt put heat lamps in, so I moved them over to my horse barn where i had power. I just dicovered last night that doe has lice!! How do I get rid of them?!?! Also can it spred to my horses? They dont have any contact with the horses but there stall is next to a horse stall, but again they cant touch nor can they see eachother. But do lice have to have a host to live on?? they have been running around my barn on the days that are warm out.....and they have gone into the other horses stall or mabey less then 3 minetes before i scooted them out. Im scared that my horse will get it.....I also dont know what kind of lice are on my goats.....?

 

[michickenwrangler]

Usually lice are species specific but using fly spray as a preventative won't hurt anything.

 

[LauraM]

As mentioned, lice is pretty much species specific. You might see some that have *jumped* onto the horses, but they generally can't live off of another species blood. I read somewhere that it is because they need to have very specific proteins or something, that each species produces differently.

But I would also agree that using fly spray will not hurt, certainly.