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What type of hay do I feed my alpacas?
Alpacas are browsers...this means they like to eat a bite of this and bite of that... a grassy patch, a clover patch, some leaves and ooooh that loooks good , on to another herb.
If you are limited in pasture, or its just off season and pasture is unavailable, the best source of hay is a varied one. A fine early cut grassy 1st cut, a fine and soft 2nd , 3rd and fourth cuts are great. The trick is to get a few bales of many types of hay, for example , a thin blade grass bale , a wide leaf blade grass bale , some with clover or some with more alfalfa and vary their diet a bit. I've noticed that they will eat a new flake of a different hay with gusto .
Alfalfa hay is wonderful but in small amounts , a handful per animal is perfect. Unless of course you're taking your alpaca backpacking up MT. Washington! Our at home, on the farm alpacas, live an easy going sedentry life and just don't need an abundance of high protien nutrition. But you can't beat the handful of vitamins and minerals it provides.
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