{"id":540,"date":"2026-04-24T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/?p=540"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T08:13:52","slug":"diatomaceous-earth-to-walking-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/2026\/04\/24\/diatomaceous-earth-to-walking-horse\/","title":{"rendered":"Diatomaceous Earth to Walking Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"540\" class=\"elementor elementor-540\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb914f1 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"bb914f1\" 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-ba2c32d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ba2c32d\" 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>\u00a0L. Thomas, Trainer, L. Frank Roper Stables, Winter Garden, Florida<\/p><p>With horses fed approximately 5 oz. of diatomaceous earth mixed in the feed twice daily, the following results were observed:<\/p><p>1. Stopped scours even on horses that had not responded to any other medication.<br \/>2. Noticeable fly reduction.<br \/>3. Horses showed an increase in appetites.<br \/>4. Weight gain due to better feed conversion.<br \/>5. Reduction in manure odor.<br \/>6. Elimination of any internal parasites<br \/>7. Healthier appearance<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dirtdoctor.com\/garden\/Diatomaceous-Earth-to-Walking-Horse_vq471.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>\u00a0L. Thomas, Trainer, L. Frank Roper Stables, Winter Garden, Florida With horses fed approximately 5 oz. of diatomaceous earth mixed in the feed twice daily, the following results were observed: 1. Stopped scours even on horses that had not responded to any other medication.2. Noticeable fly reduction.3. Horses showed an increase in appetites.4. Weight gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","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=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.agrisilica.co.za\/af\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}