Another DE question

[oldegger]

When you folks are saying FOOD grade. Are we talking animal food or people food.
Another member posted a link to a Georgia feed mill that sells 50 pound bags for $25. add $29 for shipping.
This morning I started checking with Ohio feed mills for there suppliers. The DE they use in there animal feed costs $12 to $15 for a forty pound bag. Comes from Canada. Haven't seen how its labeled. Ordered a bag. I figured if they can put in animal feed I can use it on the outside

 

[gumpsgirl]

As long as it is food grade, which I'm sure it probably is if the feed store is selling it, then it will be just fine. I would double check it when it comes in to be certain, however. Food grade means that it is safe for human and animal consumption. I even take it! It also goes in my coop. Hope this helps.

 

[lovemychicks9]

I would almost bet that is the exact same stuff that I got the first time I tried to get DE. I went to the feed store and asked for DE and they sold me a bag of it for 21 dollars. Thought I was gettiing a real deal------NOT. The stuff I got was out of Canada, came in a white bag, said food grade DE on the bag, but . it was 60% DE and 40 % red clay. Mine was by a company called Red Lake Earth. The DE was brownish red , not white, and EXTEMELY dusty, that makes you sick to breath it at all, very heavy dust ( with the clay I imagine). I did not add it to the food for the chickens, I figured if it made me sick then with their tiny lungs I was sure it would not be good for them. The only thing I used it for was to dust the runs and after they were all outside I would spread some on the floor of the coop and add the bedding over it, it was good for drying up the poop and when the runs got muddy I would spread that and it did dry up the mud pretty good. I sure would NOT feed it to them though. YOU want to get Perma- Guard food grade DE and you can contact Spatcher here at BYC as he sells it or where I used to get it was www.shadowridgedonkeys.com They sell a 10 bag for I think about 25.00. The good DE is white and looks just like flour. It also goes by the name of fossil shell flour.

 

[sundance]

Contact golden blend group and see if they have a rep in your area, they are very reasonable priced and it is food grade.

 

[oldegger]

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Golden blend is the Georgia feed mill in my post Shipping cost to Ohio is more than the cost of the DE