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[two_bit_score]

It's a "mechanical insecticide." Used quite extensively in our food system: granaries and such use it for insect control.

Diatomaceous earth - Wikipedia

I use DE around the house to control crawling insects. Never heard of feeding it to dogs. Just curious of how it would work internally vs externally.

 

[DieselBound]

I use DE around the house to control crawling insects. Never heard of feeding it to dogs. Just curious of how it would work internally vs externally.

Yeah, like I said, I cannot say that it really works as I'm using it. Reading the Wiki article it's said that there have been studies on livestock deworming and they haven't proven it to be effective. I get it cheap enough that I'll just keep using it: if I were looking to use it for lots of animals then I'd pause and think hard about doing so.

 

[two_bit_score]

Yeah, like I said, I cannot say that it really works as I'm using it. Reading the Wiki article it's said that there have been studies on livestock deworming and they haven't proven it to be effective. I get it cheap enough that I'll just keep using it: if I were looking to use it for lots of animals then I'd pause and think hard about doing so.

Well, the proof is in the results sometimes. If they have been parasites free then you are probably on to something.

 

[DieselBound]

If things are working then, usually, I just let them be. But, if I could only forgo standing on one foot and facing North when there's a full moon... :laughing:

 

[two_bit_score]

If things are working then, usually, I just let them be. But, if I could only forgo standing on one foot and facing North when there's a full moon... :laughing:

:moon:
:wolf:

 

[TSO]

Mine found a thawed water hole today in one of the fields

 

[TomSeller]

Yeah, like I said, I cannot say that it really works as I'm using it. Reading the Wiki article it's said that there have been studies on livestock deworming and they haven't proven it to be effective. I get it cheap enough that I'll just keep using it: if I were looking to use it for lots of animals then I'd pause and think hard about doing so.

With Insects it gets between their moving parts and cuts them up. With worms I don't understand how it impacts them yet does not impact the stomach and intestinal walls. I don't doubt it works, I just don't understand how it does.

 

[crash325]

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[sixdogs]

With Insects it gets between their moving parts and cuts them up. With worms I don't understand how it impacts them yet does not impact the stomach and intestinal walls. I don't doubt it works, I just don't understand how it does.

Thinking back lots of years to school I recall that the stuff damages their skin, which is also their skeleton and either causes it to fail or something else I can't remember. I'm pretty sure it was the skin/skeleton.

 

[phiferpharm]

I've used DE in my kennel full of Basset Hounds with very mixed results. For my new guy, Phoster, the Bloodhound, I use Triflexis and it is great.

 

[Alien]

It has been a sad time lately. 8 months ago we lost our Maremma and yesterday we lost our beautiful Reno. This was so heartwrenching as he was not an old dog but had fluid around his heart which had been drained about 22 months previously. Sadly this time he could not fight it but he sure tried. I did a little tribute video with Photos in memory of a very special dog. We still have our little Pug or we would be lost.

 

[Alien]

I have removed the above video. Unfortunately for some reason I haven't been able to edit my posts lately.

 

[crash325]

Planting mans best friend is just as hard as planting a human relative.
Yes I have been there. Both sides of the coin.

Wanted my best girl ever & my current lady is about 10 years old. Don't think she will wait for me.

 

[feasant]

my two

 

[sixdogs]

my two

Very cute. Happy dogs mean a happy home.

 

[BoylermanCT]

We are enjoying puppies for the first time. Our female, Guinevere had 5 puppies in March. The first one left for his new home yesterday. Its so much fun to go outside and play with a mob of puppies!

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

It has been a sad time lately. 8 months ago we lost our Maremma and yesterday we lost our beautiful Reno. This was so heartwrenching as he was not an old dog but had fluid around his heart which had been drained about 22 months previously. Sadly this time he could not fight it but he sure tried. I did a little tribute video with Photos in memory of a very special dog. We still have our little Pug or we would be lost.

Sorry about your loss.

We lost our dog last Sunday. We shared a dog with the neighbors. He brought her home as a stray at a construction site about 2 years ago. She turned out to be a great dog. A blonde, blue eyed husky mix. We had to lock her up during thunder storms or fireworks.

She had fallen asleep under the neighbors truck and got ran over when he got in to run an errand. We were all torn up.

 

[Mace Canute]

Alien and Kyle, you both have my heartfelt condolences. I've lost both my furry kids and I know the sorrow of it.

 

[sixdogs]

We are enjoying puppies for the first time. Our female, Guinevere had 5 puppies in March. The first one left for his new home yesterday. Its so much fun to go outside and play with a mob of puppies!

Yes it is fun. That's how we wound up with six.

 

[TomSeller]

I recall playing with a mob of puppies as a kid, very fun. These days I end up with death row dogs, most have been fixed by the time I find my way to them.