Hello all
This post is a very long time in the making, mostly because the threshold for me with computers is very large!
Anyway, starting January '08, after the course at Oaklands Park, Peter van Vliet and I decided to give the homeodynamic preps a "proper go" in Botton. We also picked up Enzo's tip to draw equilateral triangles on the western wall of the barn. Enzo advised this in order to treat rising cell counts in our dairy cows, which is an indication of heightened immune response or sub-clinical infection. Once the cell count goes up the next step is mastitis. We had an unusually high number of cows with high cells that winter, and were a bit concerned. It was really on the off chance that I asked Enzo about this, and that was when he mentioned the triangles. So, Peter and I did it! (See photos) At the same time we also had a number of cows that were losing hair around their tails and spine, and I decided to photograph the cows bums in case the triangles had an effect there. Enzo had said the triangle is the archetypal light symbol, and I thought the hair loss had to do with a vitamin E deficiency, due to the poor summer we had had and the relatively poor quality of out forage that winter.
So .... result! Shortly after the triangle went up, we had all our cows cell counts tested again, and 18 out of 21 were lower than the previous month! The average cell count dropped from 371 to 168. More remarkably, within three days of the triangles going up the hair on the cows backs started to grow back! I will try and post some before-and-after photos here. After about a month most of the cows with hair loss had recovered, and by turning out time they already had a glossy spring coat.
Another interesting experience we had, around the same time, was with giving a cow with retained afterbirth a drink of the yarrow preparation which had been stirred in water for 60 minutes. Immediately upon drinking the yarrow, literally within seconds (I'm not exaggerating here) she lifted up here tail and gave a mighty push! The afterbirth did not come then but the next day, and when it was delivered it was still quite healthy and did not smell.
In the Inner Garden here in Botton Peter van Vliet has used the sprays very consciencously, also the Holy Nights sprays in the turn of the year from '08-'09. He will have to post his experiences separately. My own experiments with the sprays have delivered less obvious results so far, but it is also a lot of work to apply them properly on a larger acreage, and I don't think we really did it with the right "consciousness". I'm not even sure we did it right.
That's all for now, I have had some other interesting experiences with some of Enzo's recommendations, but I will write about them another time.
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Bernadette two days before triangles drawn. 15.1.08
Bernadette 12 days after triangles drawn. 29.1.08
Mark, some help with posting pictures? {Done - }
Thanks,
Ben