{"id":499,"date":"2026-04-24T08:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/?p=499"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:57:34","slug":"diatomaceous-earth-feeding-to-dairy-cows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/2026\/04\/24\/diatomaceous-earth-feeding-to-dairy-cows\/","title":{"rendered":"Diatomaceous Earth &#8211; Feeding to Dairy Cows"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"499\" class=\"elementor elementor-499\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ecb1656 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ecb1656\" 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-2ec5128 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ec5128\" 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>Daniel M. Brandt, McFarland, Wisconsin<\/p><p>Results from feeding 5 to 6 oz. of food-grade diatomaceous earth to dairy heard for a period of five weeks: Butterfat tests have shown an increase of 3.7 to 3.9; mastitis, which had been quite a severe problem, came under control (no new cases); cows are brighter and healthier in appearance and milk productio has increased without an appreciable increase in feed.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>J.S. Bunker, Bunker Farms, Mesa, Arizona<\/p><p>After feeding 100 dairy cows on DE for approximately one year, the following results were noted: warbles became non-existent; fly nuisance almost completely disappeared; odors were almost completely gone cows have better hair and coat condition and have no desire to lick soil as in the past; vet bills have been significantly reduced; butterfat content has risen from 503 lbs. per cow to 513 lbs.per cow.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p>Dairy Herd Association Improvement Program, Hussey Farms, Litchfield Park, Arizona<\/p><p>Test run on purebred Jersey dairy cows given free choice access to codex food-grade diatomaceous earth (DE). Average intake was three ounces per cow per day. After six months the following results were observed:<\/p><p>Milk production in the test group increased over 20% with butter-fat content remaining the same. Warbles problems came to an abrupt halt. Feed assimilation imporoved and fly problems were brought under control.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dirtdoctor.com\/garden\/Diatomaceous-Earth-Feeding-to-Dairy-Cows_vq475.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Original article from DirtDoctor.com<\/a><\/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>Daniel M. Brandt, McFarland, Wisconsin Results from feeding 5 to 6 oz. of food-grade diatomaceous earth to dairy heard for a period of five weeks: Butterfat tests have shown an increase of 3.7 to 3.9; mastitis, which had been quite a severe problem, came under control (no new cases); cows are brighter and healthier in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-test-and-findings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}