Linda Blossom on thu 2 apr 98
Just a note about cobalt in odd places- I found it listed as an ingredient
in dog food! cobalt carbonate. I still want to call Pro Pet and ask why
they would go to the expense of adding it to the food.
Linda Blossom
2366 Slaterville Rd.
Ithaca, NY 14850
6075397912
www.artscape.com
blossom@lightlink.com
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Jan Adams on fri 3 apr 98
Linda Blossom wrote:
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> Just a note about cobalt in odd places- I found it listed as an ingredient
> in dog food! cobalt carbonate. I still want to call Pro Pet and ask why
> they would go to the expense of adding it to the food.
>
> Linda Blossom
> 2366 Slaterville Rd.
> Ithaca, NY 14850
> 6075397912
> www.artscape.com
> blossom@lightlink.com
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Linda,
A couple of summers ago, we attended a week-long surface decoration
class at John C. Campbell Folk School here in NC. Susie Duncan uses dog food
and rabbit food covered with fruit peelings and wired onto pots that have been
covered with terra sigilatta (hope that spelling is correct, not currently
close to any books for reference). These were fired in a saggar and most
turned out wonderfully, very smooth pastel surfaces with little areas of
exploded color and texture where the goodies had been.
I have no idea what it does for the animals, but it can be fun on pots.
Jan Adams
Mountain View
Pottery
Mo and Les Beardsley on sat 4 apr 98
Jan Adams wrote:
>
> ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>
> Linda Blossom wrote:
>
> > ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
> > Just a note about cobalt in odd places- I found it listed as an ingredient
> > in dog food! cobalt carbonate. I still want to call Pro Pet and ask why
> > they would go to the expense of adding it to the food.
> >
> > Linda Blossom
> > 2366 Slaterville Rd.
> > Ithaca, NY 14850
> > 6075397912
> > www.artscape.com
> > blossom@lightlink.com
> > -
>
> Linda,
> A couple of summers ago, we attended a week-long surface decoration
> class at John C. Campbell Folk School here in NC. Susie Duncan uses dog food
> and rabbit food covered with fruit peelings and wired onto pots that have been
> covered with terra sigilatta (hope that spelling is correct, not currently
> close to any books for reference). These were fired in a saggar and most
> turned out wonderfully, very smooth pastel surfaces with little areas of
> exploded color and texture where the goodies had been.
> I have no idea what it does for the animals, but it can be fun on pots
>
> Jan Adams
> Mountain View
> Pottery
Hi
Just remembered that Al Tennant did a paper kiln workshop for the Tozan
Society a couple of years ago and on the material list he gave me was a
bag of the cheapest dog food available. I was added to the fire pit and
all over. The nitrates (if I am remembering correctly) in the dog food
added to the great color that came out of that firing. Al is just
great and everyone had a ball at the workshop. I am wondering if it had
cobalt in it too. We left the remains at the site for the visiting
stray mama cat and kittens and the wandering rabbits that vist.
Regards
Maureen Beardsley on cloudy but warm Vancouver Island
Brad Sondahl on sun 5 apr 98
Cobalt is a required trace mineral. I've also seen it listed on chicken
feed. Considering its rarity, it's interesting that many animals are
dependent on it in trace quantities.
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Brad Sondahl
http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl
Contributing to the potluck of the WWW
Judith Enright on tue 7 apr 98
I guess we can consider ourselves part of the animal kingdom, no? My
nutritionist sold me a tiny tiny bottle of cobalt carb granules, with the
instruction to take 5 granules each day ('course, they're so tiny I practically
needed a magnifying glass to count them out). I stopped taking it when I
couldn't see any difference it was making in my general health. Guess I'll add
the remainder to a glaze someday!
Judith Enright @ Black Leopard Clayware
email: BLeopard@ricochet.net
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From: Brad Sondahl
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 1998 11:18 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list CLAYART
Subject: Re: cobalt (in odd places)
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Cobalt is a required trace mineral. I've also seen it listed on chicken
feed. Considering its rarity, it's interesting that many animals are
dependent on it in trace quantities.
--
Brad Sondahl
http://www.camasnet.com/~asondahl
Contributing to the potluck of the WWW
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