Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE: alfalfa hay

 

Hey Janice,
Just a note of caution that some livestock feeds are medicated with antibiotics that are extremely harmful to alpacas. Be sure not to let your alpacas get into your pellets for the poultry.

Laurel
The Shouvlins
Bluebird Hills Farm
Springfield, Ohio
937-206-3936
www.bluebirdhills.com
bluebirdhills@voyager.net

> <<< Hi Janice:
> Actually we buy chicken scratch. It is made up of wheat, oats and corn
> in about
> equal amounts, by volume. >>>
>
> Thanks Wayne, easy peasy!
> I would worry tho about the corn for the alpacas; can't say why but I
> seem to recall something somewhere along the way that causes me to be
> concerned about feeding corn to alpacas.
> I am looking at every critter on the farm and trying to determine if I
> can cut costs and/or time required to feed. Both are commodities in
> short supply.
> I can hardly keep my pacas out of the chicken feed - laying pellets.
> It drives me crazy. No matter how I try to keep them out, they always
> manage to find a way in to where the hanging chicken feeder is.
> Recently I decided to take the laying pellets away (figured I was
> wasting money since they are not laying right now anyway, plus the ducks
> and guineas are sucking down those pellets as well). So I thought I
> could just switch them to scratch grains for the winter to save money.
> To my dismay I discovered the scratch grains cost more than the laying
> pellets!! Prices going up weekly at the feed store. They tell me it
> is the corn and that the scratch grains have more corn than the laying
> pellets do. So back to the laying pellets for the chickens.
> Janice
>

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