What happened on the hay mix? I'm looking into my next batch of timothy down here and one of the local suppliers was telling me about a hay called Teff. I looked it up and it comes from Ethiopia. Sounds like it may be grown up around McCloud. From what I've read, the sugar content can vary depending upon the growing conditions. I'm asking the supplier if the load has been analysised as I want to keep the sugar content at 10% or less. I also checked out the Sudan, but i'm not sure of the nutriental content. It does have have lots of fiber. Have you looked at the safergrass.org website?
Have any others of you used Teff?
Thanks, Laura of Cal.
(I do have enough timothy for at least 2.5 months)
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, sammybo7@... wrote:
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> In a message dated 12/21/2009 7:38:48 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> animalshelpinghumans@... writes:
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> Hello All,
> I have a question about Hay that I am hoping maybe somebody might be able
> to answer. Is anybody familiar with Grain Hay? If so, do you know what is
> in it and do you think it would be ok to feed the Haflingers?
> We usually allways only feed straight Orchard Grass Hay, but our our usual
> hay suppliers don't have any straight orchard grass right now.
> Our options are a 95/5 mix of Orchard Alfalfa(95% orchard 5%Alfalfa or the
> Grain hay. I think the Grain hay is a mixture of some timothy, oat and
> something else, but I am not sure.
> I really don't like feeding alfalfa at all, but 5% is not much. The grain
> hay is cheaper which of course is nice, but it is a completely different
> hay than they are used to eating so I am just not sure what would be best?
> Any thoughts on what you think might be the better way to go?
> They are all easykeepers who put on weight very easily.
> Thanks for any help or advice.
> Cheryl in Napa CA
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