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Post by silverseeds on Jul 12, 2009 14:15:43 GMT -5
I researched the silver more in relation to parisite, and it does actually have marginal effects on them, but due mainly to allowing your body to do what it should, all the rest who dont think its safe havent studied it, the particles you use are to small to collect in the body as a heavy metal or turn you blue. Only three people alive out of millions who use it ever had this problem. And yes people use it on chickens for the same general health it gives anything else. The studies you sited were actually talking about other forms of silver, and badly made silver colloids. theres a major difference. silver chloride for instance can kill you.
I definately would NOT use tobacco. You must remember it likely works, but comes from an era the fda actully recommended tobacco for health, they did that in the 30s. the same time period cocaine was not only legal but recommended by doctors, and the same time colloidal silver was stopped being used as a antibiotic despite the fact nothing builds immunities to it.
I would seriously look into oil of oregano, It works very well, and the amish in ohio used it for chickens. The website I gave listed wormwood and black walnut, Im not sure about black walnut, but wormwood has many of the properties of oil of orgeano so that likely does well, and it is on a all natural site for taking care of chickens, so Im guessing there atleast a little info you could find n it if you look.
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Post by grunt on Jul 12, 2009 21:29:51 GMT -5
Wormwood was the ingredient in absinthe that got its production banned in France, because it tended to make people go a little insane. Haven't heard that about tobacco (which was originally used by new world natives in a religious context).
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 12, 2009 22:44:37 GMT -5
Black Walnut is a skin irritant, and a stain. How did the reference you had, Silverseeds, suggest administering it? Feeding the nuts to the chickens? Raw, or roasted? Or was it the oil that they were using? That can also be an irritant. I'll have to see if I can find a reference for that.
CFF - The hens did eat a bunch of leftover spaghetti yesterday, and it was super garlicky. Maybe I have an answer to getting it into them after all! I figured that if garlic powder was okay, then garlic cooked in dinner would be too.
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Post by silverseeds on Jul 12, 2009 23:52:39 GMT -5
they had some kind of tonic or whatever with both the black walnut and wormwood in it, and other herbs it said, likely for taste. I just found the site looking for natural parisite things for chickens, Im not sure if it is a good site or not.
grunt Ive actually seen studies claiming in very small doses tobacco is medicinal, I wouldnt doubt it. But that is smoking it. ingesting it is another matter entirely.
garlic works? that stuff is amazing, my mom has a small book on nothing but garlic. tumeric is another good spice, for you not the chickens. It is naturally antiinflammatory, and actually prevends many diseases. Keeping the same diet and adding a bunch of garlic and tumeric, can make a big difference.
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Post by flowerpower on Jul 14, 2009 6:39:05 GMT -5
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 14, 2009 8:02:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the link, FP!
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