Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE:corn

 

Yep, you're right Tina.
Any kind of sugars will cause an elevation in acid. Studies have found too much corn has been causing ulcers in alpacas ( which are very difficult to treat especially when one has no clue as to which stomach chamber the ulcer is in... ).
Janice, sign up to the alpaca site/ yahoo group. Lots of good health questions come up there. Got a few vets who often chime in!

I push for more hay, less feed. My animals are STILL too fat... ;)

BTW Tina, how's Kee Kee? Did you ever have a chance to show her?

Dede Crout
Dragonfly Alpacas LLC
Marydel, MD

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From: Tina Travis <traviselkhornalpacas@yahoo.com>

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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:40:25 -0800 (PST)

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Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] RE:corn

 

     You are right about the corn,there is talk about it having too much acidic
reaction in the gut.Worry of ulcer,poor gut movement.Sorry I can not point you toward any study but the research is supposed to be available.I also know of many goat farms that have taken corn out of the diet and are having less health issues since the change.Maybe if you take the question to UA chatsite one of the Dr.'s can be more direct on the issue.Push the hay not the grain seems to be the idea and I am doing just that for the 2nd year on my farm.More Alfalfa in the cold weather along with the regular hay.More body scoring and moving skinnies around.Skinnies and crias are the ones getting the grain.I use a pelleted Llama/Alpaca feed for the ones that need it. 

Tina Hunt 636-459-8930

Elkhorn Alpacas

Warrenton,MO>63383

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From: "jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net" <jelizabethfarms1@bellsouth.net>
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Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 10:03:24 AM
Subject: [AlpacaTalk] RE: alfalfa hay

 

<<< 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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