Oh, no! My goats have lice!

We use diatomaceous earth on our goats. We put it on them, on their bedding and in their food. We also use it on our chickens. It's an all natural pesticide and wormer. I even take a couple of teaspoons in a glass of water myself.
If you have a Tractor Supply around, you can get it there. It will help keep the lice in check once you get them taken care of. A good dose of baby oil down their back will do wonders in killing them.

My Angoras have terrible lice, or had. I bought the book Natural Goat Care and the author recommends yellow sulfur powder-among other things-like maintaining proper copper levels and my lice problem is much less noticeable. Now, all Angoras get sheared twice a year so I already do that but lice just love Angora goats anyway. I have used Frontline (Walmart generic version) on my goats and it does work. I don't think I would drink the milk while the goat had ongoing treatment. You have to use it on all the goats for 2 full months and I'd always forget to use it the second month and now I have so many goats and I don't think I could afford to do them all anyway. Plus anytime I brought home a goat or goats, I'd have to retreat. So if you have a couple of goats, Generic Frontline does work. I'm still trying out the sulfur powder but so far that seems to be doing the trick and it's a natural method that I'm comfortable with too.

A trick for getting copper into the goats is to use the marshmallow trick. They don't chew the copper rods and the marshmallow does stick in the rumin and the rods are absorbed slowly.