[AlpacaTalk] Re: DE questions
To add, giving them some time off is a good idea as some claim that
DE can be drying to the intestines (it kills parasites by drying them
out and slicing them up--don'r worry, the slicing part is on a tiney
tiney scale, doesn't hurt us or the animals).
Morgen
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>
> Janice - I don't sprinkle the DE on our manure piles because they
are
> cleaned daily and it would be a waste. I feed it internally to all
the animals on
> our ranch except for the goats because our pygmies can't have
grain. I gave
> the recommended feeding dosages in a prior email to AlpacaTalk on
10-10-08.
> I feed it once a day mixed into their grain/pellets. You can
spray water on
> it in the feed to help keep down the dust if you feed it right
away, but I
> don't. It also keeps grain and pellets from molding, so I mix
ours directly in
> the feed cans with the grain/pellets right when the bags are
delivered.
>
> It helps tremendously with the flies and worms on our ranch, I
swear by the
> stuff and I was a total skeptic. We had tried just about
everything and it
> didn't work, fly predators, fly traps, etc. We are on drylot. We
also mulch
> our horse manure with the garden tractor twice a week, but we did
that years
> before we tried the DE and it didn't as big a difference. I
wholeheartedly
> recommend feeding DE to all your animals, at least during fly
season. I think
> we will give them a few months' off it in the winter time.
>
> SUSAN OLSON
> Alpaca Loco
> Riverside, CA
>
>
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