{"id":520,"date":"2026-04-24T08:06:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/?p=520"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:56:45","slug":"diatomaceous-earth-zoo-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/2026\/04\/24\/diatomaceous-earth-zoo-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Diatomaceous Earth &#8211; Zoo Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"520\" class=\"elementor elementor-520\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ed6b0e4 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"ed6b0e4\" 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-e092bc3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e092bc3\" 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>Richard Smith, Hallwood Inc., Animal Food Specialties, Grand Rapids, Michigan<\/p><p>Experimental Feeding of Codex Food-grade Diatomaceous Earth to Zoo Animals<\/p><p>A mixture of feed incorporating 2% diatomaceous earth was sent to three zoos for evaluation. John Ball Park of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Brookfield Zoos of Chicago Illinois; and Buffalo Zoo of Buffalo, New York. John Ball and Buffalo Zoos reported that their black bears on the special feed showed a better coat and clearer eyes. The primates fed at the Brookfield Zoo displayed a pronounced improvement in both appearance and behavior. Stool samples taken at all three zoos showed an absence of any internal parasites &#8211; adult or egg. Parasites in these animals were present prior to using the diatomaceous earth food mixture.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dirtdoctor.com\/garden\/Diatomaceous-Earth-Zoo-Animals_vq468.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>Richard Smith, Hallwood Inc., Animal Food Specialties, Grand Rapids, Michigan Experimental Feeding of Codex Food-grade Diatomaceous Earth to Zoo Animals A mixture of feed incorporating 2% diatomaceous earth was sent to three zoos for evaluation. John Ball Park of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Brookfield Zoos of Chicago Illinois; and Buffalo Zoo of Buffalo, New York. John [&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-520","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\/520","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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/640"}],"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=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}