[Terrapreta] methane, cowfarts and charcoal in the feedlot

[geoff moxham]

I'd call that a BINGO!
Thanks so much for those links.
I will forward them to the local biodynamic dairy, being closest to
biological farmers, they may be good farms to study. However they are
already very high quality producers.

 Char in feed  would work best with milkers that come to one feed
location a couple of times a day, then go out and do that hard
spreading work. I wonder if this was a part of the terrapreta-amazonia
process?

How many win win win win situatuations did we need as a culture to see
a good thing when it was under our noses? (or our cow's noses) I think
it's too late to catch the current collapse slide, that will probably
take high-intensity feedlots with it, but after the dust settles char
in feed may be a part of dairying.
Geoff TDH

On 02/03/2008, Michael Bailes <michaelangelica at gmail.com> wrote:
> Activated charcoal is used in some animal feeds already.
> See
> http://forums.hypography.com/terra-preta/11626-some-unusual-uses-charcoal.html
> It is a good idea, surprising that no one has got on to it yet.Not only
> thst
> look what agoogle seach turned up
>
> > Activate charcoal
> > "If you feed charcoal to milking cows, the quality of the fat in the milk
> > improves and the taste is much better than cow that was not fed charcoal.
> > ...
> > www.actcharcoal.com/main/page.asp?id=32&tid=&bt=&cs= - 30k -
>
>
>
> CharcoalRemedies.com: The Complete Handbook of Medicinal *Charcoal* ... -
> > Google Books
> Result<http://books.google.com.au/books?id=sTocSIb0yccC&pg=PA171&lpg=PA171&dq=cow+feed+charcoal&source=web&ots=6x6bvGD6l3&sig=CyHcvaFkD5WmsdhEV2sh6XUzPHs&hl=en>by
> > John Dinsley - 2005 - Technology - 304 pages
> > Those lambs that received *charcoal* ate more *feed* than those that did
> > not *...* mad *cow* disease and other toxic organisms, *charcoal* should
> > look better and *...*
> > books.google.com.au/books?isbn=0973846402*...* Activated *charcoal*: a
> > versatile decolorization agent for the
> *...*<http://www.springerlink.com/index/XUP879762156J685.pdf>A.
> > & Piva, G. 1996 Reduction of carryover of aflatoxin from *cow*. *feed* to
> > milk by addition of activated carbon. Journal of Food. Protection 59,
> > 551–554. *...*
> > www.springerlink.com/index/XUP879762156J685.pdf -Applied Clay Science :
> > Aflatoxin B1 adsorption by clays from water
> *...*<http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169131706001591>(1992)
> > examined the carry-over of aflatoxin from *feed* (AfB1) into *cow's*
> *...*1% sodium bentonite and activated
> > *charcoal* additions to *feed* that contained 100 *...*
> > linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169131706001591*]*Canadian Organic
> > Growers <http://www.cog.ca/documents/RS5.pdf>File Format: PDF/Adobe
> > Acrobat - View as
> HTML<http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:Ha7XaZ1ZVhkJ:www.cog.ca/documents/RS5.pdf+Cow+feed+charcoal&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=au&client=firefox-a>
> > *charcoal* or clay the third day after the new born *...* Give
> *charcoal*twice a day. Give
> > *cow* 4 drops a *...* If a *cow* is up and eating *feed* 25 gm chloride
> of
> > *...*
> > www.cog.ca/documents/RS5.pdf
> >
>
> The tablets for humans are very expensive but still used here by
> gastroenterologists.
> m
>
> On 02/03/2008, geoff moxham <teraniageoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Sean, list-folks,
> >  a There was the well known addition that
> >  the healthfood industry promotes it for REDUCING FLATULANCE and
> >  cleansing.
>
> >  Then it would inoculated in their gut and sequestered in every cow pat
> >  recycled as fertiliser/compost. Even better if it could go in feedbins
> >  for free-ranging cattle and they could then distibute it in the
> >  pasture. Sort of above-ground worms for the  "magical renewing '
> >  aspect of terrapreta.  Maybe the cattle would even get better.
> >  regards
> >  Geoff TDH
> >
>