MA said: We give them an average of a quart per day of CS directly into their feed. For years. And they relapse anyway.
Marshall said: I don't find that surprising. If the feed has any free sulfur in it, > then it would bind with the silver in CS causing it to become > ineffective (and proteins in the feed can also combine with it producing > a less effective product as well). I believe delivery by water is the > most effective method. ****** Hmmmm -- I don't believe that the feed has free sulfur in it -- at least in my case. I used ordinary, plain rolled oats to deliver the CS. It is possible that some EPM horse owners were using a pelleted feed that could have free sulfur. I'll tuck that nugget away for future reference. You may be right that delivery by water is the best method, but it's not practical with horses. They're not dogs, who are limited to a bowl of water from which they must ultimately drink. My horses are in stalls at night, and have access to water from five-gallon plastic pails. Aside from the fact that the silver would probably plate out in that pail, the specific horse who has EPM drinks very little water in his stall. He prefers to drink from the 200-gallon Rubbermaid tank in the pasture where he spends his days. It would be difficult to make enough CS to ensure that he got a sufficient quantity when drinking from that tank, assuming that a Rubbermaid container would even allow the integrity of CS. But to reiterate the method of using feed to deliver the CS -- we are very careful to add the CS to the feed directly before feeding the horse, producing a very *soupy* feed mixture. It takes some horses awhile to get accustomed to eating wet food, but they do. I don't know of any better way to deliver CS. Some of our EPM horse owners use the *drench* method -- using a large syringe to squirt the CS into the horse's mouth. A few desperate owners, whose horses were already down, used CS intravenously. Ultlimately, if the horse survived, all went to the feed method. MA said: They relapse while they're getting a quart of CS per day. Somehow, we're not getting all of the protozoa. And we don't know why. But the pattern is pretty reliable -- they're symptom-free in cold weather, and symptoms start up again in warm weather. Marshall said: Any possibility they are being reintroduced in their water. If so, that > would be another good reason to put the CS in the water. ****** That is certainly a possibility for horses whose water source is a pond or (less likely) a stream, but not for horses whose water is in a container. EPM is a consequence of the horse ingesting Possum feces -- generally just by grazing a field where Possum have passed through, or by eating packaged feed from a mill where Possum have had access to the products used for the feed. I know a woman whose entire barnful of six horses came down with EPM virtually simultaneously. When she examined her packaged feed, she identified Possum feces directly in the feed. When she contacted the feed company, they pulled that entire batch of feed from their distributors, but denied that Possum could have access to their product. She lost her breeding stallion before she learned about Colloidal Silver, but saved the other five horses because she used it. MA -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: [email protected] Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
