Category Archives: Pests and Diseases

A sneak peek at Farming Secrets ‘Walk the Talk’ Clip 3 of 5

www.farmingsecretsblog.com Here’s another of Bruce Davison’s worm farms. David notices the lemon and onions being fed to the worms successfully. He also advises on Bruce’s problems with rodents after Bruce shows us his rat trap.

Are you are looking to set up your own worm farm and have it thrive? Then “Composting With Worms Made Easy” is a great DVD for starting out.

The DVD features David Davidson, President of the Australian Worm Growers Association showing you the best worm farms and how to keep your worms healthy. Check it out now at: www.farmingsecretsblog.com/fs/store

Does your pet suffer from fleas and you don’t know what to do?

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Does your dog suffer from fleas and you are worried about using chemicals?

Here’s a true story from a homeopath: Jean Belstead. A story that supports the chronic case: FLEAS

“Lilly, my Maremma, had itchy skin and flea infestation when she was barely a year old.  What an embarrassment to own such a miserable-looking hound, incessantly scratching and chewing at herself!  There were no fleas in the environment, I lay down on her bedding and couldn’t find a flea, nor a flea find me.  All the little rascals were on the dog.  I mean, there were thousands of the critters, breeding, partying and cohabiting with her.

!’d bath her every Saturday for weeks, killing the current flea population, only to have the next generation hatch out in oceanic waves of humungous proportions before the end of the week.  Each week I’d kill ‘em off using natural products, essential oils, herbal tinctures, whatever I could think of, but still the fleas and me continued our cycle of hatch, match and dispatch.  During this time a chronic flea situation was established.  A few fleas a-visiting would have been treated as an acute case, but a whole community moving in to take up miners’ rights and given time to build restaurants and birthing centres soon became chronic.

Time to consult the inner homoeopath.  Why, you may ask, did I not do this in the first place?  Well sometimes we don’t see the wood for the trees… hence, my Itchy Dog Formula was born.  I added 20 drops to her food once a day for the next YEAR.  There was an improvement straight away, the flea population reduced, the itchiness diminished, the hair grew back.  But it took a whole year before I could say that she was completely recovered and there were NO MORE FLEAS.  At all.  Gone.  Completely.  This demonstrates the need to NOT GIVE UP in CHRONIC cases.

Now, here’s the punch-line.  Lilly died the other day of natural causes at the ripe old age, for a big dog, of 14.  Since our run-in with fleas when she was a year old, she never at any time had even one flea lodging on her.  Not only did I finally get rid of the beasts, I set up a resistency in Lil’s body that said, “no fleas allowed”, and it made her body unsavoury to them.  In this instance I dosed continually once a day.  I may have gotten the same result if I’d dosed once a week as stated in the dosage for chronic cases above.  The main thing to remember is to dose regularly, continuously and faithfully”.

Jean’s Lilly is photographed above. Jean says this piccie is when she was about 13 years old, as you can see, a full coat, what a great place for fleas to set up camp, but none in there!!

If you liked this story there are more in our earlier Farming Secrets Digests. You can also find out what Tigger did about her fleas. These stories can be found on page 2 and 3 of the Digest at: www.farmingsecretsblog.com/fs

Introducing Jerry Brunetti and a quick overview of his 2 day course: “Ruminations on Life – Nutrition and Health for Cattle, Sheep and Other Grazing Animals”

 

Listen as leading animal nutritionalist Jerry Brunetti talks  about the importance of nutrition, farm biodiversity and the importance of seeing the farm as a whole system. Do you see your farm as a whole organism? Jerry questions the use of the world ‘sustainability’.
Jerry Brunetti - Ruminations On Life
The 6 DVD set “Ruminations On Life – Nutrition and Health for Cattle, Sheep and other grazing Animals” is the best resource anywhere for a detailed whole picture view of natural, healthy farming. It is the complete recording of a 2 day course led by Jerry Brunetti. Jerry is a walking encyclopedia with a vast storehouse of knowledge which all of us would do well to listen to.
Each set comes complete with the Course Manual so it is almost as good as being there.
CDs of the course are also available which are great to play when driving around on your tractor.
For more visit www.farmingsecretsblog.com/fs/store

What Does It Mean To Be A Farming Secrets Member?

Listen as Andy talks about the advantages of being a member of Farming Secrets. You know what you are being told is fair dinkum. www.farmingsecretsblog.com

Stock Supplement -Reduce consumption of paddock feed by up to 30%. Part 8 of 10

Walk The Talk Stock Supplement Sneak Peak 8 of 10 – Use of “buffet trailer” has led to less consumption of paddock feed by up to 30% claims Andy. Listen in as he tells Hugo Disler, Farming Secrets

Stock Supplement – How to Treat Mastitis? Part 7 of 10

How are You Treating Mastitis? Watch as Andy tells how he now has no with holding periods as he deals successfully with mastitis. What would that mean to you?

Stock Supplement – How to reduce Flies and Pink Eye. Part 6 of 10

Do you have a problem with Flies and Pink Eye? Are you spending time and money in dealing with the problem? Did you know that these problems can be easily and cheaply reduced with Free Choice Minerals? Listen to Andy as he tells Hugo what has happened with his dairy cows.

Stock Supplement – Dramatic reduction in milk fever. Part 5 of 10

‘Walk The Talk’ Stock Supplement Sneak Peek 5 of 10 – Dramatic reduction in milk fever at calving after introducing free choice minerals and homoeopathics. Listen as dairy farmer, Andy Ibbott talks with Hugo Disler and Gerhard Grasser about what happened on his farm when he introduced his ‘buffet bar’. The results for him were dramatic yet simple.
Andy is a great student. Watch more on this series.

Stock Supplement – Why use stocklick blocks? Part 4 of 10

Why doesn’t Neil use the conventional lick blocks? Has he ever used them? Yes, and listen as he explains why he stopped using them.