A review of all the ways we use DE on our homestead and how it works for us. Always do your own homework and do what is best for your farm. Enjoy & thanks for watching! xo
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Does tractor supply sell it? And what is the price?
YEAH, glad I found this. Now I know what to get & how to use it. Just have to figure out how to give to our elderly cat, as she is on canned food. I guess just a teeny tiny sprinkle, like a pinch.
Thank you for this info..
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Thank you for this info on D.E. The only thing I knew about it was a pest control man once told me that D.E. heavily sprinkled around my house in AZ would keep scorpions out. He said it was the only effective scorpion repellent he knew of. Their exoskeleton prevented regular pesticides from working.
Thank you SO much for this
I'm new to raising chickens and I wanted to say thank you for all your very informative videos. Keep them coming.
Thank you for sharing the info with me I just bought pigs and noticed worms in the stool so I went to tractor supply and bought DE, love your viedos
Thank you so much for this info. I will add this to homestead 🙂
Thanks for the DE info!
Can you do a sprinkle on hay/grass hay to help with mites and other critters?
does it help with spiders at home
Hi , please tell me whether to use hay or straw in my chicken hatch flooring , and why?
just an FYI- I use a pharma food grade that is dark, as it naturally contains calcium carbonate. Mine is red lake, naturally occurring lake bed DE, safe for human and animal ingestion & consumption. For you& yours, is using the white a matter of choice, or am I missing something else?
Where do you buy it
It’s in the chicken feed I use but I can’t tell the percentage. Wonder if I should add extra?
Blessings
Thanks for the info patera!
Thanks for the info Patara! My goats are having worm problems right now. Gonna start using DE right away
Hey it works great .not a trace of lice or mites with whatever those things were. I've been putting it in their food also . I think they're going to be just fine.
Thank you so much for everything you've shared. You have no idea how much it has helped me.
You say that you take it too. What are the human benefits and dose?
I use this stuff in the chicken feed, lightly sprinkle it around the inside of the coop. Make sure your chickens are outside because it can damage their lungs. Once the dust settles it’s fine. I also sprinkle it on ant piles/hills, in and around the chicken yard, the perimeter of my house. 2 days after I got my pullets, ants were crawling EVERYWHERE! I sprinkled some D.E. in the nest boxes, coop, chicken yard, perimeter….everywhere. The next day not a single live ant to be found. This stuff is relatively inexpensive and non-toxic to everything except bugs. It’s far more effective and faster than sprays, granules or powdered bug killers.
Thank you for sharing. I do sprinkle on my coop. I need to start giving it in their food. Can you make a video about your chicken feed and ratios? Thanks again Patara.
Glad I found this one!
great tutorial Patara!
Thank you for the info, ive got some DE food grade and ill be sure to use this on my animals in the future☺
Thank you have a good day I will put a little pn my dog feed
I use DE on top of my garden soil to kill aphids on my green bean vines. The DE kills the ants which "farm" and protect the aphids. No ants, no aphids. Works well and without pesticides!