Healthy organics

[Jack]

Gidday

I know I am probably a funny old bugger and have been known to be a bit of a non-conformist so here I go again.

Now be warned, this is a long post.

In my distant past we lost our family farm because of parasites in our stock. (Another story)

Years latter I had a similar thing happening with stud sheep on my smallholding and I found that resistance to drenches wasn’t working for me. http://www.spah.co.nz/dyn_documents/ant ... _in_nz.pdf

Vets didn’t help either. I had the vet do a P.M. on a lamb that was dying and it showed an overwhelming infestation of Ostertagia circumcincta. I asked for a written P.M. Report which he agreed to but then I also mentioned I wanted to sue the drench company and I then could not even get a bill for what he did because he would have had to give the P.M. Report too.

I finally overcome the problem myself by drenching with trace elements, mainly cobalt and iron. Later still, I found that many diseases including internal parasites where banished from my property by changing over to Sabbatical Fallow system of farming. (Yet another story)

Around about then, the wife of one of my wife’s workmates was always sick and the doctors could not seem to even diagnose what was wrong, let alone cure her. I asked what the symptoms were and when I was told I simply said she has cobalt deficiency.
Of course I was laughed at but I went and got my veterinary book out which had maps of areas in New Zealand that were deficient in cobalt and showed that these people lived right smack in the middle and a highly deficient area. I then turned over the pages to show the symptoms of cobalt deficiency in sheep and they were identical to what this woman had.

I then heard about this here Yankee joker who was a vet then turned doctor who really slagged of the medical professions with his talks headed “Dead Doctors Don’t Lie.â€Â

[glenniedragon]

We recently looked into mineral replacement as we had an 'occurance'. I grow as much veg as possible, what I don't grow I buy from farm shops or local supplies. During some blood investigations my OH was diagnosed as having low copper levels, this was followed up by a 24hour urine collection (a large bottle in a brown paper bag followed us everywhere, OH said he found it liberating-but thats him!) Copper was still low. Then I did some reading around and discovered the little bit of England we live in has high Molybdenum levels that binds copper and makes it unavailable for the body to use. I had created this condition, So if I had bought veg and meat from elsewhere then this would have been avoided and I was thinking I was doing the best.....

kind thoughts
Deb

[Millymollymandy]

Very interesting Jack, although I can't say that I understand it all. I shall now not worry about those spinach beet leaves decomposing around the plants that look very messy because I can't be bothered to pick them up! My horse muck on the veg patch is only half rotted too, so reckon I'm doing OK the Jack way!

[Jack]

Gidday

Just try not to put fresh horse poop on the spinach just before you eat it.

Be natural, nature is untidy Eh!

[Cassiepod]

Very interesting. It ties in quite neatly with the work done by the guys at this link http://www.seercentre.org.uk/. About using rockdust to return minerals to the soil... I've not had much chance to investigate it yet but it might be of use.