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Location: Georgia | Been reading up on the (organic) food grade Diatomaceous Earth health benefits for both humans and animals. I had never heard of this before but it sounds too good to be true! (yes, I know what they say. . . 'if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!')
Just wondering if anyone has ever tried this?? Very interesting!
Here's a couple of links:
human use: http://sacredmountainjourney.com/id21.html
animal use: http://sacredmountainjourney.com/id28.html |
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Location: Kansas | i'm curious as well |
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Extreme Veteran
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| I take it and have all my horses on it via Animal Element Detox. In addition I up the dose once every 3 months for a week as a natural wormer. My kids look and feel terrific! |
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Regular
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| Yupp bought food grade DE at tractor supply and been feeding it. After about a week everyone was shedding their coats again even after they had already dropped their winter hair. |
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Expert
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Location: Kansas | We give it to our goats and it makes a big difference with them. I am wanting to try it as a lady I know swears by it with her kids. She claims it helps with teenager hormones as well as with some weight loss. She will bake it into brownies and they eat it that way. |
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 I Prefer to Live in Fantasy Land
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I've tried it and I really feel it is way over rated and it does not replace de-worming your horse. JMO |
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Location: Alabama | I deworm about every four months and rotate cheap wormers, feed the de daily to my two horses also. Just had fecals come back clean. I will continue to use it. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I've been taking it for a couple weeks now. I'm about to start my horses on it, I just wanted to b sure on myself first. Haha!! But just a heads up it is hard to get down!! I mix it with OJ and it makes it a little better but YUK!! Haha!! I can't say that it has really made me "feel better" but it hasn't made me feel worst. |
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | I remember someone asking about this and me saying that diatoms = glass like silicas and I'd be worried about that.
I've since done some research and it's not the same hence why food grade.
I will be starting a meal plan with my horse that includes food grade DE. Horses I've seen on it look great, but they are also on a specific feeding regiment that covers the horse as a whole in regards to nutrition. |
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| I have had my horses on maintenance dose (1/4 cup/day) for several years and had clear fecals. I took in a boarder/hardship case about 6 months ago. No idea this little gal was so wormy...started her and my others (now that I exposed them to her) on 1 cup a day for 30 days. I saw dead adult worms w/in 2 to 3 days. Re accomplished fecal on the new mare and my vet was pleasantly shocked. He said to continue what I was doing. She was down to a very low egg count. She now looks great, slick sided and people always ask if I put my horses on a walker. They say they look "fit". Ha! My horses are pasture potatoes :) (I ride for pleasure). All this to say...I also take it daily. I hardly ever throw my back out anymore, I have great constitution (enough said) and there are great sources out there that will give you good information. I found this:
http://www.ibreatheimhungry.com/2013/02/foodless-friday-health-bene...
I hope the link works.  |
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  Sock eating dog owner
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Everyone here is on it. Horses, dogs, he and I. It's great in oatmeal. Oatmeal is wet enough and you can just swallow it. I give it to the dogs the same way. I mix with the horses grain beet pulp and grain wet. |
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 Cyber World Challenged
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Location: My Own Little World | We use food grade DE on our animals. 1/2 cup 2x per day for the horses. I wouldn't say it should totally replace a worming program but it sure helps. I'd be curious to have fecals done on my horses to see how it's really doing |
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Extreme Veteran
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Location: Loma Linda, CA | Do a fecal float and see how well it works.
Super easy if you have access to a microscope or bring a sample to a vet. They are fairly inexpensive and you can generally just drop them off with your vet.
Sometimes they'll opt to send to the lab (which is about the same cost anyways) where they can spin down the sample and really get nitty gritty with it! :D |
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 Been Blessed
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Location: Living in my Promised Land | I read on a website about DE helping food allergies. Anyone ever had any success with it? |
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