{"id":472,"date":"2026-04-24T07:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/?p=472"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T07:07:50","slug":"advantages-of-diatomaceous-soil-for-game-ranches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/2026\/04\/24\/advantages-of-diatomaceous-soil-for-game-ranches\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of Diatomaceous Soil for Game Ranches"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"472\" class=\"elementor elementor-472\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e95e0e3 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"e95e0e3\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-13a39e7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"13a39e7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong><em>An excerpt from:<\/em><\/strong><\/p><h4><strong>Game Ranch Management<\/strong><\/h4><p><em>Sixth Edition<\/em><br \/><em>J du P Bothma &amp; JG du Toit<\/em><\/p><p>Some of the advantages of using diatomaceous soil in external parasite control include the following:<\/p><ul><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It increases the growth of animals in intensive production units.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It decreases moralities of animals under stress conditions.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It can be used as a carrier in feeding rations.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It is a safe method to supplement trace elements.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It acts as a buffer in high-energy rations.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It plays an important role in calcium\/ phosphorus metabolism.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It controls internal and external parasites.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It is used in wound healing as a \u201cgreen antibiotic\u201d.<\/li><li data-mce-word-list=\"1\">It increases fertility in animals.<\/li><\/ul><p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-390\" src=\"https:\/\/agrisilica.gsddemo.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Diatoms_Concentrate_product-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Diatoms_Concentrate_product-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Diatoms_Concentrate_product.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt from: Game Ranch Management Sixth EditionJ du P Bothma &amp; JG du Toit Some of the advantages of using diatomaceous soil in external parasite control include the following: It increases the growth of animals in intensive production units. It decreases moralities of animals under stress conditions. It can be used as a carrier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1213,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/1213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}