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  • From: Terry Wereb <frosted-acres@sbcglobal.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fwd: Re: Immunities
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 21:53:50 -0700 (PDT)


Okay, below is the soil-animal health connection

Terry

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> Living with horses predisposes my stock to tetanus.
> Having watched a
> horse die of lockjaw, this is not a risk I will
> take.
>
> This next bit got me heckled off another sheep list,
> but I'll take a
> chance here. I went through a very difficult period
> with the sheep
> which extensive research revealed to be a trace
> element imbalance - read
> "imbalance" - not necessarily deficiency. In
> disastrous proportions.
> While I fully agree that chemical props used willy
> nilly are extremely
> detrimental to the gene pool, I would also like to
> propose that even
> highly disease tolerant animals which are
> fed/pastured on many of our
> trace-element-deficient/chemicaled forages, do not
> have all the immune
> system building blocks necessary to live up to their
> genetic potential.
> There's no doubt in my mind that a lot of the state
> of disrepair that
> some breeds/species are in is not so much the lack
> of genetic immunity,
> but the lack of immune-system building blocks. They
> are challenged by
> deficient/toxic feeds.
>
> To my mind this is the state of things which fuels
> the pharmaceutical
> engine. We are not putting money into rebuilding
> our agricultural soils
> and thus our health/the health of our animals, we
> are inventing another
> injectable band-aid.
>
> My land is not up to robust health yet, and none of
> the forages I have
> tested from statewide sources give me the confidence
> that my sheep are
> fully up to their genetic immune capabilities. We
> are working on it,
> but building that kind of health into the soil takes
> years. And since
> we must buy in hay for the winter, we are out of
> control of that phase
> of our program. Our time will come, but in the
> meantime, there are one
> or two items that I will vaccinate for.
>
> Regards,
l




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