Thanks for the info - Is the food grade like the kind they use in pools -
very powdery and dry? How do you get them to eat that? My sheep won't eat
a piece of corn that touches the ground or has a speck of dirt near it in
the feeder - not sure how I'd get them to eat that. I wonder if putting i
Barb,
The only thing I know of about silica that makes it unsafe is if it is a
reaction to the dust in the lungs. Silica ingested orally passes unchanged
thru the gastrointestinal tract exiting in the feces leaving no trace
behind. DE is too minute to penetrate the mucus that lines organs or
pe
I have to wonder if you really can't OD sheep on DE (still smarting from
my surprise lesson about clay!!) Lot of silica in DE, no? Talking to
the guy at the lab where I send my forage samples...he told me that he
was testing some Central Oregon hay that was suspected of killing some
alpacas..
I really don't know if DE works when diluted with water..thats a good
question. It looks like fine flour and if you smell it it really doesn't
smell like anything. It doesn't taste bitter either. If you do feed cob or
pellets just sprinkle some in and the sheep will most likely eat it. You
can'
Onalee,
Look for FOOD GRADE DE rather than the stuff that goes in pools. There are
loads of websites that sell it for livestock. Many holistic wormers have DE
in them.
I pour it directly into my container of dry cob..not only does it keep the
sheep from worm explosion it also keeps the cob "bug
Well, Terry, I am going to start putting some DE in the rams' feed and
see what happens! I will be able to tell for certain if there is a
difference in their egg count. And I swear, the worms in the ewes'
fecal seemed to have a rough-ish surface. The rams are not interested
in minerals so I
What type of DE do you use - I have read that the kind used in pool filters
won't work. So what kind of DE does work and where do you get it?
Thanks,
Onalee
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Barb
Many people SWEAR by DE as the 'slicer/dicer' of the
internal parasite group. I am actually feeding it to my
rabbits, and I notice that the numbers of fly larvae in the
waste pile is a LOT smaller than it was last fall and this
spring.
Terry W
--- Barb Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmm
Hmmm!
I have gotten to be a pretty good hand at examining fecal samples under
the microscope as a way to maintain my flock health without unnecessary
chemical intervention. Generally all I look for is haemonchus contortus
and cocci. I've seen a lot of dead larvae of the h. contortus and there
