Understand the Natural Deworming Method

welcome back to another gorgeous day here on the stoney ridge farm this video is going to be a short little video and i'm going to talk to you a little bit about my medication program for my cows my natural medication program so we're over here by a burn pile this is a slash pile here on the stoney ridge farm and what we have is charcoal that's what we're producing right here okay so you can see some got in my eye right there we are producing this wonderful charcoal for our cows to consume and you think to yourself why would a cow consume charcoal well fire is a part of nature fire is something that's been a part of nature since the dawn of time and we didn't used to have to spread ivermectin on our animals back years and years ago only in the recent years have we decided that we need to medicate our animals versus trying natural ways to deworm and detoxify our animals so my cows get out here they get on pasture they're all grass raised pasture-raised beef and the way that we worm our cows is by simply allowing them to forage in slash piles so in each pasture i have slash piles the cows that are the most wormy or have the most parasite load and it's normal for cows to have a little bit of a parasite load but the cows that have the most will consume the most charcoal and that charcoal is an irritant and helps to deworm the cow so instead of pouring medication on my animals we're allowing them to forage their way through brush piles like this so i've been doing