Re: [AlpacaTalk] holistic treatments
DE works on the poop pile (especially for flies) but not in the alpaca.
Jess
Jess & Cookie Bowers
Acres of Love Alpaca Ranch
Acres of Love Alpaca Transport
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Owasso, OK 74055-6531
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From: <houckj@aol.com>
To: <AlpacaTalk@yahoogro
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:21 AM
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] holistic treatments
> In a message dated 10/7/07 2:54:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> alpacas@acresoflove
>
>
>> Just a quick note in reference to DE for parasite control. It has been
>> studied by many (Dr. Pugh, for one) and proven completely irrelevant and
>> useless for internal parasite control. Feeding DE and counting on
>> parasite
>> control is asking for death. Fecal checks and appropriate anthelmintics
>> are
>> the only proven reliable method.
>>
>
> Thanks for sharing. I know Dr Pugh and greatly admire him. But I know so
> many folks who use DE for parasite control.....
> think.
>
> He used to bring his interns to my friend's llama farm for some hands on
> learning. When I had my first alpaca I had her pasture attached to my
> small barn
> and the chickens were in there. So they got to start going out into the
> new
> pasture and had tons more room to roam around. It was very cute the way
> they
> would follow her around. I only had 3 at that time and the one alpaca.
> But I
> will never forget Dr Pugh being SO upset and telling me get my alpaca AWAY
> from those chickens! He scared me to death, but I didn't really have the
> means
> to create another pasture so I didn't do anything. That was 7 yrs ago and
> they
> have all lived together since. I was up to 20 chickens and 7 alpacas this
> summer all in the same pasture. I am not aware of any problems this has
> caused.
> Maybe someone here has some input on that living arrangement.
>
> Thanks, Janice
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