[AlpacaTalk] RE: D.E.
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Janice - it helps with worms also. We find that it REALLY helps with fly
control - are you putting it on your poo-piles also? We scrape the
poo-pile clean, then sprinkle a layer of d.e., then a layer of dirt on
top of
that. Maybe you need to increase your feeding of it, or the flies may be
breeding in other wet areas you don't even know about yet. I can't believe
something is actually CHEAPER out here in CA! Well, don't feel too bad,
we are
still paying $19 - $27 a bale for orchard grass hay.
SUSAN>>>
I've been in email hell for the past week+ and am finally back and
trying to catch up. In the meantime, without email, I have been reading
some links that have been sent me to over time that I never have time to
read. One of them was sent by a goat friend and has tons of info about
D.E. In fact the best info I have read. It was some sort of wolf
sanctuary I think. I can find it if anyone is interested.
Anyway, I learned that DE *does* help with odor control as it is a
drying agent.
No, Susan, I have not been putting it on my poop piles. I have a couple
that don't go to a communal pile, they just go everywhere, so makes it
really hard to keep it clean and impossible to sprinkle DE over it
all. Do you have a favorite "tool" that you use/carry to disperse the
DE onto the piles? I am going to start spreading in the chicken pen that
we clean out every day, but it is still rather damp and dank all the
time - and the flies are awful. I have several fly traps in there, and
we feed DE to the fowl, but I am going to start spreading it around.
Just need to get my routine worked out - what I am going to use to
spread it etc. I have just been tossing with my hand over the dirt in
the Pyrs pen - can't say that it did one bit of good for them and their
fleas - but Revolution has brought them great relief and I am going to
go back to spreading DE as well. I can only assure since they got
covered with fleas after they got here that my pasture areas are thick
with fleas. Never seen them on the alpacas and even tho I have been
told that alpacas and goats don't seem to get fleas, the vet says ALL
warm blooded animals will be bothered by fleas.
Warmly, Janice, waiting for the end of fly and flea season, tired of summer
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