Re: [AlpacaTalk] more on feed
Right, that's the thing with almost every alpaca and livestock feed
available. They are "price based" formulae rather than recipe based,
which ours is. Our is always the same, unless we request a change in
the recipe/formula. With other feeds, their goal is to make it fit the
Guaranteed Analysis (GA) and they are free to choose whichever grain
by-product will fill the bill. That's why most often you will see very
vague ingredients as the bulk and then the other mineral ingredients at
the end. And that is why our feed may cost more than other feeds,
because we don't just put in any lowest priced ingredients we can find.
Quite the opposite in fact. We don't put in chelated minerals, that
would make the feed easily twice its cost, but we do have a high end
feed.
Distiller's dried grains, brewers dried grains, soybean hulls, wheat or
other middlings or midds, any grain mill run, those are all waste
products that they sell to livestock feed mills.
We basically used the information found in Dr Evan's Alpaca Field
Manual to formulate our feed. The nutritionist at the mill also spoke
with Dr van Saun, a leading camelid nutritionist. So our feed is
formulated to be fed with hay grown and available in our area.
Heather
On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Wendy Edwards wrote:
> hi - there was nothing online for our feeds producer on the island so
> i called them and asked for a list of ingredients in the alpaca
> pellets - the woman was very nice about it, and gave me the following
> list (she could not give me amounts as she said their formula changes
> all the time)
>
> Barley
> wheat mill run
> wheat
> corn
> peas
> soybean meal
> corn gluten meal corn distillers grains
> limestone
> blended vegetable oil
> dicalcium phosphate
> salt
> vitamins A, B3, E
> copper sulfate serrous sulphate
> manganese oxide calcium iodate
> manganese sulphate cobalt sulfate
> zinc sulphate sodium selenite
> zinc oxide yeast culture
> zinc amino acid complex
>
> This is obviously not grain-free.
>
> The good thing is the woman said they will make up custom feeds -
> minimum order 1 ton - Also that i can talk to their nutritionist with
> my concerns, He will be in tomorrow.
>
> I have sent a copy of these ingredients (this email) to my son, the
> scientist, who is far far away in ottawa so he can translate some of
> this for me.
>
> Losing my day job has actually become a good thing as i have the time
> now to thoroughly investigate some important issues.
>
> Wendy
> DreamWeaver Alpacas
> BC
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