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Re: [RC] DE - Annie George

Well, of course there is always the one rat study that says it is a killer. BUT I have fed it for the most part of 20 years. And allot of major stables do. I think the problem with the colt very well could have been misuse, or feeding the industrial grade. I Googled it, 'diatomaceous earth'  or 'diatomaceous earth equine' or horse. literally dozens of sites. You can spends a day or 2 and study up and know as much as anyone else. One thing I did learn is that you can sprinkle it on ant hills and where bugs go.  So I did, I had a huge red ant hill. 2 days they are GONE!!!  I have sprinkled it around the house and there are certainly allot of dead white powdered bugs laying around.  Gotta be better than all those poison things.  I am going to continue to feed it to the horses but try to do more research for horses, but for bugs it is a permanent resident of this ranch! Annie G.
Anne George Saddlery  www.vtc.net/~ageorge
----- Original Message -----
From: m l
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [RC] DE

Annie,

DE- I know absolutely nothing about this.  Should I
inquire?

Lindy
--- Annie George <annie@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> It is, BUT there are 2 grades, Industrial grade for
> pools and allot of other stuff. And the Food Grade
> which is what  is fed. NEVER EVER  use the
> Industrial  grade to feed. It has other stuff added,
> chemicals and such. Annie G.
> Anne George Saddlery  www.vtc.net/~ageorge
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: m l
>   To: Annie George
>   Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 11:03 AM
>   Subject: Re: [RC] DE
>
>
>   Diatomaceous Earth - Isn't that what they put in
> pool
>   filter?
>
>   --- Annie George <annie@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>   > Hi Sug, I was surfing on Google,  I found
> literally
>   > hundreds of sites for DE, I searched
> 'diatomaceous
>   > earth"  Wow there is allot there. Way more than
> I
>   > expected to find.  and also I searched
>   > 'diatomaceous earth equine' lots there to,  Most
> of
>   > which I do not understand but you will. Allot of
>   > technical lingo.  I also saw that allot of the
>   > industrial grade stuff has other chemicals
> added.
>   > (ugg)   This discussion is very interesting to
> me,
>   > and others I'm sure. I have no doubt that it can
>   > make somebody sometime sick. But if we can
>   > adequately evaluate the % or risk factor, then
> we
>   > can decide if it is worth it.   I mean compared
> to
>   > chemical fly control. Still.......  Flies may
> not be
>   > so bad after all!                              
>   
>   >                                                
> 
>   > Anne George Saddlery  www.vtc.net/~ageorge
>
>
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