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Anyone use this stuff on your hounds? And if so, what's you're opinion of it? Thanks.

http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp

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I TRIED IT YEARS AGO, SEEMED TO WORK GOOD, BUT IT WAS NOT READILY AVILABLE IN MY AREA AT THE TIME!!!

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I would like to know the differance between the food grade and the one the use in swimming pool filters. Looks the same and a lot cheaper.

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this is where I ordered it from:
http://www.earthworkshealth.com/

tried it as a flea product. not sure if I applied correctly or not. tried taking it myself, couldnt get past the chalky taste. know others that take it daily and swear they have have more energy, etc. if you do take it, start off at a lower dose than is recommended and work your way up to it (trust me on this one!).

oh, it will dry your hands out as well, so be prepared to wear gloves or wash and use lotion.

this site sells all food grade with multiple uses.

2.5 gallon $11.50
4 - 2.5 gallon $23

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I would like to know the differance between the food grade and the one the use in swimming pool filters. Looks the same and a lot cheaper.

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Thanks Don and Cynthia. First time I have found it that cheap and found out the differance between the grades.

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I use it and swear by it, I'll not use anything but that to treat my dogs for worms and parasites.

http://www.mearicle.com/catalog/index.php
You can get it straight from Heather or myself. I liked it so good I became a dealer.

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Bill, that other site has you beat on prices!!!

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NEVER HEARD OF IT BEFORE,INTERESTING.....THIS A GOOD STICKY ...PRODUCT REVIEW....

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good stuff and have used it going on ten years

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carries it.dirt cheap{no pun intended}lol

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Works good for fleas

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Gezz I sure Wish "Someone" would Just use the Search Tab instead of Starting Another Goofy Post !!!!!





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To quote wiki.

"Marker in livestock nutrition experiments ;Natural diatomaceous earth (dried, not calcined) is regularly used in livestock nutrition research as a source of acid insoluble ash (AIA), which is used as an indigestible marker. By measuring the content of AIA relative to nutrients in test diets and feces or digesta sampled from the terminal ileum (last third of the small intestine) the percentage of that nutrient digested can be calculated using the following equation:

Where:
is percent Nutrient Digestibility
is the percent of nutrients in the feces
is the percent of nutrients in the feed
is the percent of AIA in the feces
is the percent of AIA in the feed""
And:


I don't see that much to get excited about. Food Grade . It's used because it is not digestible. It's a single or double cell algae. There is silica clays and some diatoms minerology. Heck even Kaopectates is Kaolin Clay designed to Plug Up Diarheea. LOL

I do wish dogfeed manufacturers were using it to see what kind of Total Digestible Nutriesnt and Digestistble Protein they were selling us and put that on the Bag instead of Crude protiein and fat which tells us basicly nothing.l

I suspect its good enough for a mechancal insecticide , such as squishing a bollworm between two rocks. But it probably has more to do with Holistics and Organics bandwagon than efficacy.

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Diatomaceous Earth looks like a cylinder full of holes - kind of like Rice Chex Cereal. This cylinder has a very strong negative charge. As these millions of cylinders move through the stomach and digestive tract, they attract and absorb fungi, protozoa, viruses, endotoxins, pesticides and drug residues, E-Coli, and heavy metals. These are trapped inside the cylinder and passed out of the body. In addition, any larger parasites that happen to be in the stomach or digestive tract are "cut up" and killed by the sharp edges of the Diatomaceous Earth. All of these activities result in a much healthier body with less sickness.

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I bought some mericle solution at the grand amer. & its working good. Better than ortho tree & shrub for ticks & fleas. I have ear problems & the ear remedy has fixed that. My ears, not the dogs.

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I'll post this on the size of the cylinders in the chex cerials for diatoms. Excuse me for a minute while I go chech out the diameter of the fungii and and the Micotoxins as well as the charge of Zinc and other heavey metals. Be right back.
I'll just post the sizeze of diatoms now because i don't have a clue about the other things size and charge. I am trying not to lead a hypothesis in any direction.
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Basic Theory. The diatom motor: Diatoms are single cells which reside
within an ornate, species-characteristic, long, rigid box made of silica.7 All
motile diatoms possess slits or "raphes" in the silica shells,7 which generally
occur in two pairs on opposite faces of the box. The raphes in a pair are end
to end along the long axis.
Contact between a raphe and a fixed substratum is required for locomotion.8'9
The dimensions of the raphes vary roughly with the size of the diatom. A
raphe is 10-100 Aem long, 200-2500 A wide in its narrowest region, and 1-10 ,m
deep, cutting all the way through the silica shell.8 Thus, the walls of the raphe
form a fine parallel-plate capillary.

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I bought some mericle solution at the grand amer. & its working good. Better than ortho tree & shrub for ticks & fleas. I have ear problems & the ear remedy has fixed that. My ears, not the dogs.

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are you guys saying the miricle ear and earth stuff are the same thing? You actually eat the eat treatment stuff? I have some of the miricle ear stuff. I am still out the lunch on how well it works for worms etc. I do know if you just sprinkle it on the feed, my dogs just eat around it, and they get none. Mixing it in a syringe and getting the dose right is a major pain. I think the stuff might work, but is it worth the effort is yet to be told. If someone has some good ideas on hoe to use the stuff effectivlly, i'd like to hear them.

Thanks.

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it is the same 'stuff' but I dont know if the mearicle product is food grade and I wouldnt eat it. I DO know the earthworks product is food grade and humans and/or animals can ingest it. it can also be used for the fleas and stuff as well.

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we sell it for $18.00 in a 50# bag but I will tell you it's nowhere near as effective as safeguard and ivomectrin

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I DONT KNOW BUT THERE IS A GUY THAT HUNTED WITH ME THIS WINTER THAT USED IT ON HIS DOG AND IT WORKED I BOUGHT SOME OF THE MARACLE SOLUTION POWDER AND USED IT WITH REAL GOOG RESULTS WE FEED IT TO PUPPY ABOUT EVERY WEEK AND VERY LITTLE WORMER.

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Do tell. I have ear problems too. I might try most anything. LOL Holistic Organic BS diatribes or not. LOL
My favorites right now are : CO2 (false science), POOF,as in UKC threads ( Magic), Abba agracadabra, ( tounges) etc. Deo tomatious might get added quick.

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