Lice - Cattle

Lice

• Pediculosis in farm animals is most often seen in winter when the coat is thickest

• Debilitated animals are often predisposed as they cannot groom properly

Cattle

• One chewing louse
  • Bovicola bovis

• Several sucking lice
  • E.g. Linognathus vituli

• Most lice have a preferred predilection site on the body

• Some lice will gather in clusters

• Causes
  • Ill-thrift
  • Anaemia
  • Down-graded leather