Jackie Lowe

You are welcome. You can put it in their water barrels and keeps the algae down also. My 13 horses are pasture ornaments and baby boomers, four due in the spring, three in the fall. And yes lawn mowers and fertilizers. My neighbors chickens come over and help with the bugs and it is good for them also, makes the egg shells harder and then love dusting in the pine chips so certain they are bug free also. You can feed it in a feed bucket out of the wind, yet I have not figured out when they are eating it and breathing in the bucket at the same time they do not inhale it. I have not tried that. What I like is you cannot OD them on it like other things. Some does get in the blood stream yet not certain it kills heart worms. I sent a message to one of the websites and have not heard back yet.

I feed it to my horses, dogs, cats and myself. I mix it in with the horses grain and add a small amount of water and stir up with a big spoon. For cats, I put it in the cat food can where I store it. Since there is so much oil/fat in the foods it just sticks and does not appear to cause any dust. I had a filly that was coughing and since on DE she does not cough anymore. When you give it to your animals it is expelled through their feces and kills any flies/maggots, etc. reducing the fly population. You can mix it up in a pump or back sprayer and put it everywhere. Sprinkle on your garden and slugs, etc. will be gone. Just do not spray on your plants as will kill bees and ladybugs, etc. It will not hurt earthworms unless you till it into your soil so do not recommend that. Before I move going to spray it around all my baseboards and use in the barn liberally. Love the stuff.

I cannot say enough good things about DE. There are tons of websites out there with so much information. I started taking it the first of Dec after a long bout with some creeing crud and all the crap the doctors were giving me did not work. Now I feel great, my cats and dogs get it and their coats are slick, shiny and beautiful. I have just started giving it to three of my thirteen horses and will be keeping track of them closely. One website I really like is Natures' Wisdom and another is Earthworks. I put it in the horses water tanks as it kills the algae so it does still work after getting wet as it does not dissolve as others have said. If it did, how work it work on insides. I hope everyone checks out all the websites available that have tons of info. As far as fleas are concerned, if you put it on your dogs and carpet (not good for vacuums) you still have to put it outside, otherwise the dogs/cats will just keep bringing them back in. It is great in stalls and kills fly larvae in horse poo after they pass it. I could go on and on the benefits of this stuff. It also makes chicken eggs shell harder. Has other very beneficial minerals also. Good luck everyone.

g noland wrote:I bought ten lbs of DE and combed a couple of table spoons into my dogs fur. It had no visible effect on the number of fleas. They were all alive and kicking a day later. The only effective treatment so far seems to be a flea comb.

I would be more enthusiastic about putting this stuff on my carpet if I could see that it killed fleas. This was food grade DE purchased from the link on this web site's article on DE.

GN

It is not going to kill them in one day and you have to keep putting it on to kill any new ones. I cannot say enough good things about this stuff.