Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: feed
Once we changed our feed from the old pellet we used to buy, our
alpacas wouldn't touch the other stuff any more either! That's why we
went with the alfalfa pellets. They really like them. Since we only
feed 1 cup, it's not as though they're getting a diet of 100% alfalfa
which I think everyone agrees is not good for them... And it isn't a
by-product. We absolutely didn't want a questionable quality product
which may be variable from batch to batch. We also looked at Timothy
hay pellets as the base ingredient, but they weren't as available to
our mill as the alfalfa pellets were.
Here's that main think with our feed. It's green. Our old feed was grey
or cardboard colored. It didn't smell great. Our new pellets (which
we've fed since Oct. 2006) do smell good, they smell like grass because
that's what it is.
Heather
On Dec 20, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Wendy Edwards wrote:
> hi - my alpacas don't like their pellets, they leave them in the
> bottom of the feed dish - that is what started me looking for an
> alternative to the feed we get locally.
>
> I agree about the starches and sugars, altho to quote Dr. Robert
> VanSaun, "As a start i would suggest you consider using fiber
> byproducts as the primary ingredients rather than the traditional
> corn, oats, or barley grains. Fibre byproducts include ingredients
> like beet pulp, soyhullls, wheat bran or middlings, citrus pulp or
> rice bran among others"
>
> He had a lot of questions that i am just now beginning to answer -
> this is an interesting process, and i think at the very least i will
> know a lot more about alpaca nutritional needs, and we will have a
> better feed available at the local feed mill.
>
> I contacted pac-a-nutrition - love the look of their farm and their
> alpacas - farm land like that makes me drool - of course they are many
> miles too far from me to even consider shipping but i have asked some
> questions regarding nutrition and i hope they get back to me.
>
> all the best to everyone - i am off to christmas shop, finally. We
> have so much snow here that i haven't been able to get off the farm
> for the last week.
>
> Wendy
> DreamWeaver Alpacas
> Port Alberni, BC
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