how do i get lice eggs off my pygmy doe kids

[nifftiness]

Hi. I was wondering. My two little does I just brought home are covered in lice eggs. All over their little faces and the stip down their back. I covered them in DriKill powder last night, and thought i could use a lice comb to get the eggs off but that doesnt work. Bathing them isnt working either. Is their anything that would help get them off.
I have them in the house once in awhile, and i also have to take them to be disbudded soon and I dont want to gross out the person doing it. Any advice would be great.

 

[Hollywood Goats]

Olive oil and tea tree oil mixed together a spray bottle spray them down, it kills the lice and a lot of the eggs.

 

[()relics]

ivomec...it kills parasites, both internal and external. If the eggs do hatch, which is not likely after an ivo treatment, the newly hatched larva will surely be eliminated once exposed to the ivomec. You could comb them to rid them of the eggs but I would treat them first to lessen the chance of viable eggs/larva/adults "let off the hook" before they get the effects of the drug....jmo

 

[mully]

Olive oil and tea tree oil mixed together a spray bottle spray them down, it kills the lice and a lot of the eggs.

My vote would be for the tea tree oil ... works for so many things and it is not like giving another dose of meds or injection. This mixture works for cuts and abrasions. Good prices at www.SFherb.com

 

[cmjust0]

Oil a goat in a dusty, straw-covered barn?

Really?

 

[mully]

Oil a goat in a dusty, straw-covered barn?

Really?

It is a light oil spray and is gone in a day.

 

[()relics]

Olive oil and tea tree oil mixed together a spray bottle spray them down, it kills the lice and a lot of the eggs.

I don't know about goats BUT I do know tea tree oil contains a neuro-toxcin that will render a dog helpless in a matter of hours with the possibility of death. I wouldn't use the stuff....BUT that is just me

 

[Hollywood Goats]

Olive oil and tea tree oil mixed together a spray bottle spray them down, it kills the lice and a lot of the eggs.

I don't know about goats BUT I do know tea tree oil contains a neuro-toxcin that will render a dog helpless in a matter of hours with the possibility of death. I wouldn't use the stuff....BUT that is just me

Undiluted tea tree oil is very strong it can even make you blind, but diluted it kills small things like lice, infections etc.

 

[ksalvagno]

What are the measurements for the olive oil and tea tree oil and is there anything else you put into that bottle?

 

[cmjust0]

So...if it's harsh enough in certain forms to cause blindness and death, how exactly is it better than ivermectin or pyrethrin?

That's something I could never quite get my head around.. I mean, despite the fact that I've been cast as someone who jabs his goats with meds at the least provocation, I'm actually pretty judicious about it because I truly don't like filling them with chemicals.. That much, I suppose the tea tree oil, grapeseed extract, diatomaceous earth crowd and I can probably agree is a good thing..

But, really...isn't tea tree oil a chemical too, when it comes right down to it? I mean, yeah, it's "natural"...but Arsenic is natural. Point being, just because something's natural doesn't make it harmless..

And it's not as if ivermectin is 100% synthesized anyway...it's derived from streptomyces bacterium. And pyrethrin was orginally derived daisy flowers..

Someone help me understand that..

I would ask if y'all would douse yourselves in tea-tree oil if YOU had lice, but I won't.. I will say that, for me...uh, yeah, gimme something modern and chemical-y that kills them RIGHT NOW.