[RC] Fwd: RC: Update on mane mites. - heidi sowards
FOUND IT!!! Hope you don't mind Barb, reposting your test
results!!
heidi
--- "Barbara B. Peck" <bpeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Reply-to: "Barbara B. Peck" <bpeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> From: "Barbara B. Peck" <bpeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 18:09:51 -0400
> Subject: RC: Update on mane mites.
>
> OK Guys..
> here's what worked.
> Between my buddies in the area, we had 5 horses with mane
> mites
> and they all had it about the same severity:
> a quarter inch wide strip of missing (and itchy) mane
> either just above the withers, or up
> over the crest, on the under side of the mane;
>
> Here's what didn't work:
> Tea Tree Oil, AloVera, Head and Shoulders Shampoo, Fly
> and Tick spray, Horse
> lice duster, 2% Miconazole powder (athletes foot powder)
>
> Here's what did work:
> 2 aplications of Topical Quest 1 week appart,
> Goodwinol Veterinary Ointment (1.25% Rotenone).. 2
> applications 1 week appart.
> The goop wasn't washed out untill 2 days after the
> second application.
> use rubber gloves with each of
> these products so YOU don't absorb any.
>
> I've read that Seleen Shampoo (the animal variety of
> Selsun Blue) will also
> kill them if the lather is left on 10 minutes... I'm
> going to buy some and wash the gelding's mane with that
> the rest of the summer and do it the first thing next
> spring.
>
> Manes are growing back, and everbody's happy.. no one had
> their tails affected, I think we got it in time.
>
> Barb
>
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