[AlpacaTalk] RE: feed
<<We
recommend that people who use our feed only have enough on hand that
they'll use in no more than 3 months. Since we get a new ton every two
weeks, they don't even need to have it around that long! But that's
beside the point...>>
Heather, last year was this same discussion about not feeding grain and
it made sense to me, plus I have to drive a bit to get alpaca feed. I
purchased a bag of alfalfa from local feed supply. It was not pellets
but chunks. The only alpaca that would eat it was my breeding male,
everyone else turned thier nosees up. Besides with the chunks there was
no way they were going to get their vit or minerals (I don't add
vitamins....
buy it in a 25#bucket (the smallest) and it lasts at *least* a year if
not longer. Never thought about the vitamins. I went back to the paca
feed and fed the alfalfa chunks to the horses as treats.
But the pacas had not been eating their minerals for a very very long
time now, they just fall to the bottom of the feed tray and stay there.
I started feeding beet pulp this fall and they love it so now I add
the minerals to that and top dress their feed and they eat it all up
(and as soon as I can find a source I will start adding DE as well). So
the beet pulp has become the carrier for those minerals. Now I just
have to go find out if they have/had vitamins in them.
Are you saying here that you sell the custom feed mix you use?
Warmly, Janice
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posted by Chaddo at 7:14 AM
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