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Utilizing Charcoal for Natural Deworming

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Incredible Cattle De-worming Method You Won't Believe!

What happens here

The farmer reveals a burnt tree stump and the surrounding ash as the natural deworming station. He explains that he deliberately creates these slash piles by cutting trees, using some for lumber or firewood, and burning the rest to create charcoal. He mentions his background as a registered nurse and explains that activated charcoal is often used in emergency rooms to absorb poisons in humans, serving a similar function for cattle by absorbing parasites. He emphasizes that everything on the farm serves a purpose.

Goal: The farmer explains how burnt wood (charcoal) is used as a natural dewormer, outlining its benefits for cattle and drawing parallels to its use in human medicine.

Tools and materials

  • Chainsaw
  • Wood-Mizer sawmill
  • Wood branches and logs

What they say

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trying to burn so about I guess about two months ago I came over here and I dropped this big tree this is a big red oak we put the red oak over on The Sawmill so we can make Lumber out of it the rest of it we use for firewood and the rest of it we're using to worm the cattle so everything serves a purpose here on the farm let's go over and show you and then we'll let the cows out and the ones with the highest parasite load in other words the ones that might be a little wormy will go straight to that charcoal these cows are going to go and attack that charcoal it's pretty amazing to see them go they'll hit the grass first no doubt but the charcoal is something that's extremely attractive to them and it helps with their tummies guys I'm also a registered nurse so what do I know about charcoal well for person comes to the emergency room and they're overdosing or they've ate a poison or consumed a poison oftentimes the treatment is to give them charcoal activated charcoal down a tube into their stomachs to help absorb that nasty poison that they've eaten this is charcoal let's go over here and take a look so you can see this is the red oak stump the cows will rub on this wipe their heads on this and they will consume most of the charcoal that's left behind this was burnt about three days ago and this is the charcoal that we're looking for okay this is the perfect dewormer for our cattle you will look at this in an hour or two and it will not look like that it will be completely trampled out it will also feed the land so without further Ado let's let the cows out and let them on this charcoal come on girls we don't need to Rattle up our animals and excite them we need low stress low stress animal handling is what this is all about guys low stress do you see

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