DE in Chicken Feed

[Saltysteele]

first, be sure to only use food grade.

second, i don't understand how it works on internal parasites, as it is reported that the way in which it works is to cut the exoskeleton and then dehydrate the parasite. how does it do that in a wet environment? if it works by absorbing moisture, you would have to feed a ton of it or it would all just soak up the moisture in the digestion tract before it could start working on the bugs.

anyway, check out this website. it will give you all the answers you need. think it says 60 days, chickens 5% in food? you'll have to read through it. i think they may be selling it, but they do give some good information
http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/defaq.html

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

anyway, check out this website. it will give you all the answers you need. think it says 60 days, chickens 5% in food? you'll have to read through it. i think they may be selling it, but they do give some good informationhttp://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/defaq.html

They definitely sell it, and give a lot of misinformation in order to do so

Read it carefully and you'll see they tell you it will kill worms in animals , but won't harm worms in compost.​

 

[ChestnutRidge]

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Thanks for sharing. I'll poke around and see if I can find some way to get the full text, but the abstract says that the DE "did not significantly affect [the] FEC and adult parasite load" of the "more parasite-resistant breed" of LB hens, as Bear Foot quoted above, while it did lower the parasitic load in the BB hens. I have no idea what parasites they are referring to, though: "Capillaria FEC," "Eimeria FEC," or "Heterakis"? Can anyone explain what these are? They are also saying that the hens eating DE ate more and laid more and larger eggs, resulting in equivalent feed efficiency between the experimental and control groups of hens. Lastly, it says that dusting with DE, which would be an external use unrelated to feed, reduced the number of Northern fowl mites. So, yesses and nos from this one.

 

[Saltysteele]

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They definitely sell it, and give a lot of misinformation in order to do so

Read it carefully and you'll see they tell you it will kill worms in animals , but won't harm worms in compost.

good point!

 

[Bear Foot Farm]

I have no idea what parasites they are referring to, though: "Capillaria FEC," "Eimeria FEC," or "Heterakis"?

Those are nematodes that really aren't all that common in chickens anyway

The "FEC" means "Fecal Egg Count"


"Eimeria" ' is a single celled organism that causes coccidiosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eimeria

Capilaria worms are extremely pathogenic and can result in death especially in turkeys, partridges, pheasants, guinea fowl and quail, of all ages. They are less common and less pathogenic in chickens.

http://www.worldpoultry.net/diseases/capillaria-d62.html

Heterakis gallinarium occurs worldwide in chickens, turkeys, duck geese, grouse, guinea fowl, partridge, pheasant and quail of all ages. Heterakis gallinarium is a small white caecal parasitic nematode worm, 7-15 mm long.

For most nematodes, control measures consist of sanitation and breaking the life cycle rather than chemotherapy

http://www.worldpoultry.net/diseases/heterakis-gallinarium-d69.html​