Lice - Cattle

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  • 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