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Revision as of 17:38, 24 March 2010
- 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