What's a good price for DE Diatomaceous Earth

[thekla]

if you are on the west coast the "Coastal Farm and Garden" has 50 pound bags for $22.95 (here in Oregon anyhow)

 

[Rebekah]

Thanks, everyone, for your help!

I went to Rosedale Mills in Pennington, NJ [near Princeton], and got a 50 lb. bag for $23. The store clerk told me they were flying off the shelves and that "there must have been something on TV about it"... haha!

For anyone from the NJ, NY, PA area, you should check this place out.

[edited because it was actually cheaper than I originally posted!]

 

[thewarriorchild]

I better call before I go ... I was wondering if any northern nj people were interested if I went down to get some. I would have to plan it in with something else. I am not sure when i would go but I would bring some back.

 

[gjoyner]

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=diatomaceous+earth

scroll down and there are different sized bags. I had a 1 pound bag and it lasted me forever and I have three chickens. I just bought a ten pound bag and that will last me forever! All their stuff is food grade. Good safe healthy green brand

 

[kuntrychick]

Is anyone in North Central Alabama and know where to get it? If I don't find it soon, I'll be ordering online....even though it's a little over $50 with shipping....$1/pound isn't that bad, but I do wish I could find it locally for ~$30 for a 50# bag. When I call places, I have to repeat myself because they act like they don't know what I'm talking about...lol I may just go in some of these places and look for it and/or ask them if they can order it. If not, I'm gonna order online.

What all kinds of places in your local area carries it? For now, I've called a few feed & seed places and my local Tractor Supply and the closest county farmers co-op. Do places like Southern States stores carry it (which is about 20 min. from me)? Or maybe a vet? I haven't called any vets yet, but I do plan to use it on my dogs and cats when I get some.

 

[thewarriorchild]

http://www.milkyspore.com/insectdust.htm

is this ok to put on the birds. Ia m trying really hard to call places around here to find it. You would think I had two heads when asking for it. You would think it would be more popular. My rabbit has fleas and I really want to get this to put on the dogs and out by the chickens. 4.4lbs costs 10.99 ugh but I might go get it to save time right now. Would you be able to get this from a restaurant supply place??

 

[sundance]

a guy at the flea market in woodbury sells food grade de. and i paid $20.00 for a 50 lb bag. but that was last summer Try google for custom milling or golden blend. If any one in your area sells food for exotic birds like emos, ostriages(sp) they may have it. marrie

 

[thewarriorchild]

Ok I found this on the web reviewing DE. I was scared, I am not sure of the sister or the sisters husband more. scary

C.G., Pagosa Springs, CO

I am writing this in hopes that someone will read this and be helped like I am. I tried diatomaceous earth, using about 3 heaping tablespoons in a cup of water, to appease my husband. He said it would be good for my hair. It doesn't taste bad, it actually is good. However a week later we were driving to the store; I looked down and noticed I had nails. I have bitten my nails since I can remember. I went out and bought polish. I could not believe how fast they were growing and the urge to bite them was no longer there. My hair was also thinning in front and it is now filled in. When my 25-year old sister was pregnant, she craved chalk. Her husband would actually go to the store and buy her chalk to eat. I gave her some of the diatomaceous earth and she loved it. She quit eating chalk and took the diatomaceous earth every day."

 

[thewarriorchild]

I went out there and got some, thanks for the tip. THey guys were nice nad umm if I had planned more time the outlets are in flemington, there was a pretzel factory on the way and not to far away a state park with arboritum and a BBQ place that looked cool. That was most likely the nicest looking feed store I have been in.
So now I guess I can dust all my animals, feed it to us and them, and pass some to a friend for her cat to eat.... 50lbs oh my!!

Thanks Alan!

 

[cgmccary]

the warriorchild wrote:

I am writing this in hopes that someone will read this and be helped like I am. I tried diatomaceous earth, using about 3 heaping tablespoons in a cup of water, to appease my husband. He said it would be good for my hair. It doesn't taste bad, it actually is good. However a week later we were driving to the store; I looked down and noticed I had nails. I have bitten my nails since I can remember. I went out and bought polish. I could not believe how fast they were growing and the urge to bite them was no longer there. My hair was also thinning in front and it is now filled in. When my 25-year old sister was pregnant, she craved chalk. Her husband would actually go to the store and buy her chalk to eat. I gave her some of the diatomaceous earth and she loved it. She quit eating chalk and took the diatomaceous earth every day."
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There is a word for people who eat DE, clay, sea shells, etc.-- I never can remember it. . . when I read that someone eats DE, I have to caution them about their teeth. DE is SiO2 (silica), the mineral is QUARTZ. On Moh's Mineral Hardness Scale, Quartz is a 7 on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being the softest mineral (Talc) and 10 being the hardest (Diamond). Your teeth is CaPhO4 (calcium phosphate), the mineral is APATITE. On Moh's Hardness Scale, it is a 5 and Quartz (7) will severely/easily scratch Apatite (5). Your teeth are not going disappear overnight but surely, if you believe 2% Diatomaceous Earth put in feed and ingested is capable of shredding a parasitic worm which has evolved over the course of several million years to survive and thrive in the digestive tract of a bird then surely, it is not a great stretch of the imagination that the same stuff put in your mouth in a cup of water could interact with your teeth in some small, detrimental way.

In the 1960s in this country, a well known toothpaste company was putting minute amounts of the rock, "Pumice," a siliceous (also SiO2=silica=quartz) rock created when silica-rich magma is propelled through the air in a volcanic explosion, in their toothpaste. The pumice-laden toothpaste indeed cleaned teeth and made them pearly white. It also was quickly wearing the teeth, first the enamel and then the rest of the tooth. The company was immediately stopped and prevented from using pumice in their toothpaste.

About "chalk": chalk is made of microscopic, prehistoric shells called coccoliths. Coccoliths were an abundant animal (plankton) & especially flourished in the Cretaceous seas over 70 million years ago and their likes have not been seen so prolifically in any other time. Nobody knows why they were so abundant and then so suddenly, geologically speaking, instantaneously disappeared. There were also some deposits of them in the Upper Cambrian (485 million years ago) and later in the Miocene (25 million years ago) as well.

Coccoliths were so abundant a little more than 70 million years ago that their fossilized microscopic shells form large sedimentary layers in Upper Cretaceous aged rocks (e.g. the famous "White Cliffs of Dover" in the UK; the Demopolis Chalk here in Alabama; in Turkey near Sile along the Black Sea coast; quarries of Southern Sweden; the rolling plateau of Picardy in France; the Austin Chalk deposits in Texas; in Georgia of the former Soviet Union, in Israel & Egypt--- ALL Upper Cretaceous). To make these chalk deposits requires an extremely pure coccolith limestone-- almost entirely made of of these plankton shells! [Limestone is a rock chiefly composed of the mineral, Calcite] Coccoliths were plankton/animals with shells vs. Diatoms are plants, a small algae with shells. Coccoliths made their shells of Calcium Carbonate=Mineral is CALCITE/(Aragonite in new shells)=the oyster shell we feed our hens for calcium supplementation for stronger shells (the same mineral in other sea shells). I drink milk and eat cheese for my calcium. The DE has much less Calcium and Ca is just present as a trace mineral, if at all. It doesn't make sense that DE would fulfill a carving for the calcium that the chalk was providing. Do you hear what I am saying here?​