Show scurfy skin Is one of first effects of lice lice are never found on fat cattle lousy animals are always thin and the patches where the hair has fallen out give them a ragged and ugly appearance this fact brings up a question do lice make cows thin or do thin cows simply acquire lice as a matter of course perhaps the question is not important the important thing is to rid th the animals of lice asserts a writer in the missouri farmer one first determines ter mines that an animal is lousy by its appearance the first effects of infestation by lice are usually a scurfy skin and patches of hair falling out around the tail head or the withers unless the lice are killed the animal may become very thin and lose much of its hair young calves are especially affected lice are easily destroyed by a solution of standard stock dips although a dipping vat is the easiest and most effective means of killing the lice on cattle the expense of building and maintaining a vat for this purpose is too great to justify its use it is not a big job to go over the herd by hand with a brush and the dis infecting solution if this is done in the winter a mild day should be selected ordinary powdered borax sprinkled along the top line of the animal from poll to tail will lessen the attacks of the lice until a more thorough job with a stock dip can be done |