alfalfa pellets

southerngurl · #21 06/24/10, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Jay27

We are talking about a very good friend here, so she wouldn't tell me one thing just so I buy the more expensive product. I have no doubt that she truly has my goats' best interest in mind. This is all stuff that she has personally saw first hand at several manufacturers. According to her, dyes and stabilizer ingredients do not need to be listed on the tag or can be listed using non-descript language... similar to what they do on nutrition label on food for human consumption ("natural flavoring" = MSG). I guess the protein additives are delicious enough (to critters) that if you put enough of it on rocks, they'd eat the rocks. None of this means that alfalfa pellets are 'bad', but maybe just not as good as the hay that was baled down the road. At $3.50 a bale, I think I'll just stick to regular alfalfa hay.

If I could get it at that price, I would too!

ozark_jewels · #22 06/24/10, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by southerngurl

If I could get it at that price, I would too!

Exactly.LOL!!

Pony · #23 06/24/10, 06:15 PM

I use the Merry Mixer pellets too, with great success.

We ran out of alfalfa hay a couple of times. We just don't have the storage for it right now. (Please God we'll get that barn completed this Fall!)

ALL the goats love the pellets. They act like they're candy.

My only problem is what to do with the fines that invariably collect at the bottom of the feeder...

wintrrwolf · #24 06/25/10, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Pony

I use the Merry Mixer pellets too, with great success.

We ran out of alfalfa hay a couple of times. We just don't have the storage for it right now. (Please God we'll get that barn completed this Fall!)

ALL the goats love the pellets. They act like they're candy.

My only problem is what to do with the fines that invariably collect at the bottom of the feeder...

I dont get that problem, my chickens move in and finish anything in the feeder that the goats leave.
If you can get alfalfa for 3.50 a bale then that is what I would do. I am sure your friend truely believes in what she is telling you, and does have your goats best interest at heart.
There are many reasons why some of us feed the alfalfa pellets, and there are some here that have been doing it for years and have healthy, good looking goats. So I think that speaks for itself as well.

sandc · #25 06/25/10, 10:39 AM

Alfalfa $3.50 a bale? I wouldn't bother with pellets if I could get it so low. I haven't found it for less than $13 here lately. At that price versus pellet price waste is not much of an issue.

CaliannG · #26 06/25/10, 12:37 PM

I feed alfalfa pellets, COB and BOSS. Hay here is $8.50 a bale and most of it stem which the goats won't touch. Pellets are $11.50 a 50# bag, COB is $10.50 a 50# bag, and BOSS is $13.00 for 20#.

My goats are a little bit on the pudgy side, but not unhealthily so.