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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.