Yeah I figure there have to be natural remedies that farmers know. I was thinking like anything I'd pick up more info on it as I get closer to being able to homestead.
I have found with myself and pets that probiotics are kind of the inverse of vaccines, where you lift your immune system up and your body starts to defeat stuff on its own. I've used probiotics and dewormers/anti-parasitics to combat little fungal skin infections my pets have gotten in the past and it's worked like a charm. Making sure their diets aren't goyslop and are in line with their nature has really paid dividends for my pets as well.
I'd be more inclined to have that sort of mindset and playbook when it comes to farm animals, like positive, pro health, in line with nature attitude, but ultimately I'd still be relying on farmer's wisdom and might concede to certain things if they really thought I should do something a certain time-tested way. I find a lot of modern medicine to be too tunnel-visioned, like you target a specific thing and you pretend that this chemical you're using doesn't do aaanything else to you but kill the one thing the doctor/vet says it does. My thing is, nature made all these things with their own defense systems built in and it's up to you to figure out how to unlock the mechanisms where you're immune system can be robust enough to fight off disease in a positive manner (probiotics, diet, parasite cleanses) rather than what I consider a negative manner (targeted and typically caustic drugs basically).
I have found with myself and pets that probiotics are kind of the inverse of vaccines, where you lift your immune system up and your body starts to defeat stuff on its own. I've used probiotics and dewormers/anti-parasitics to combat little fungal skin infections my pets have gotten in the past and it's worked like a charm. Making sure their diets aren't goyslop and are in line with their nature has really paid dividends for my pets as well.
I'd be more inclined to have that sort of mindset and playbook when it comes to farm animals, like positive, pro health, in line with nature attitude, but ultimately I'd still be relying on farmer's wisdom and might concede to certain things if they really thought I should do something a certain time-tested way. I find a lot of modern medicine to be too tunnel-visioned, like you target a specific thing and you pretend that this chemical you're using doesn't do aaanything else to you but kill the one thing the doctor/vet says it does. My thing is, nature made all these things with their own defense systems built in and it's up to you to figure out how to unlock the mechanisms where you're immune system can be robust enough to fight off disease in a positive manner (probiotics, diet, parasite cleanses) rather than what I consider a negative manner (targeted and typically caustic drugs basically).