chechinchillas
hmmmmmmm
I talked to Dr. James Butler on the phone today (he did his thesis on chinchilla nutrition) and thought I would share with you what he said about the alfalfa and timothy hay. He said people use alfalfa because it's more readily available, but if feeding an alfalfa based pellet and alfalfa cubes is too rich for some chins (only 1 of my chins) you can feed an alfalfa based pellet with timothy cubes or loose timothy hay. He said if you do feed alfalfa hay besides the pellets to use the alfalfa blocks not the loose alfalfa. I asked him if I just fed her straight timothy hay pellets and tim blocks and loose tim would that be okay and he said I could, but that really wouldn't be enough protein. I got my wholesale shipment from Oxbow of loose timothy hay and timothy hay cakes and everything looks good. It ends up being about a $1.09 a pound including shipping, but they have a minimum order of $150 and then shipping is about $115 for (6) 50lb bags. Shipping was pretty quick too.
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