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I've got an interesting little case study going on in the home corrals. A few years back we didn't get the cowherd poured-really never saw any lice except on maybe 5 head out of a couple hundred. This year we have a couple introduced cattle in with the heifer calves-they are showing a fair amount of lice. More than enough to put a parasitic challenge on the young calves but the heifers are clean. The winter we've had and on a straight hay diet any drag would show on them. I'm starting to think the more we do for them the more we have to do. Kind of heresy from a guy who did lice surveys for a drug company one year but it is food for thought. Maybe if we culled the small % that need help we could eliminate some of the costs. I know the one cow with lice has a bull calf is donating his nuts to the "testicles for stock dogs foundation'.