Re: [AlpacaTalk] Question for alpaca owners

 

I would say browsers. My trees and shrubs will get stripped, if not protected, and they love ponderosa pine bark, and also the needles. Aspen trees, stripped of any leaves they can reach, and the blossom pods are snarfed off the ground almost before they land. Crab apple tree, had it's bark stripped off in several places before I realized they could reach it through the fence.  Plus mine love yucca blossoms, going after those, even before tasting the grass on a new field, and will also eat the yucca. How they never seem to get those sharp ends in their face and eyes I don't know. I can't walk by one without getting a yucca injection.     Now if they would just eat the weeds with as much enthusiasm......   Tawny Bott Abra-Cadabra Alpacas 303-621-9656 http://www.abra-cadabraalpacas.com http://www.alpacanation.com/abra-cadabraalpacas.asp Kiowa, CO. -------Original Message-------   From: Ellie Winslow Date: 7/28/2009 7:46:46 PM To: alpacatalk@yahoogroups.com Subject: [AlpacaTalk] Question for alpaca owners     For a book I'm doing to Alpha Publishers I want to compare ruminants as to their food preferences (apart from what they're fed in domisticity)    Are alpacas grazers or browsers?   Many thanks. Ellie http://beyondthesidewalk.com Marketing Workshops, Books, blog/free newsletter & consulting: Growing Your Rural Business: From the Inside Out Marketing Farm Products: and How to Thrive Beyond the Sidewalk Economy Proofing Rural Business Making Money With Goats

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