Alfalfa pellets?

[Cottie]

TSC has bags of these for horses/goats/etc. They also have timothy hay pellets. Much cheaper than feed.

I don't know the size of them, but if they're small enough...could I use them in addition to fresh/dried forage, oats and BOSS? Or is it entirely unsuitable?

 

[akane]

If they'll eat it you can use them but they are big pellets and most won't touch them. Blocks work better and what I use for my house bunny so I don't have hay everywhere while providing alfalfa or timothy to his diet.

 

[skysthelimit]

Mines wont eat them.

 

[dangerbunny]

Some rabbits won't eat them, I have had much better luck with the alfalfa cubes. I prefer to feed alfalfa over timothy because the timothy is lower in protein, Sometimes people feeding a natural diet have slower growth rates and it's usually due to low protein. I have fed grass hay, alfalfa cubes and whole grains for years with good luck. This year I won't be using alfalfa cubes because my hay is alfalfa/grass.

Commercial rabbit pellets are primarily alfalfa and grain.

 

[trinityoaks]

Mine won't eat pellets, either, but they'll eat the cubes. I find that they waste less with the cubes than they do with loose hay, also.

 

[mizemama]

Mine won't eat the cubes or pellets. So then I had a 40 pound bag of alfalfa pellets to use up. I tried to feed them to the pigs and they wouldn't touch them either. I finally gave them to a lady with goats. They didn't seem crazy about them but at least they're not my problem anymore.

 

[Secuono]

Mine wouldn't eat them and the pellets are much larger, might of been the reason why.
They'll eat the horse hay cubes, though. Took about a year before they accepted them and oats.

 

[skysthelimit]

Frosted gave me some horse feed, Seminole I think is the barn. It's got all kinds of hers, oats, and stuff, maybe you could try that?

 

[akane]

I used horse feed for a year as their alfalfa and grain supplement. Along with those big soft (not the hard trace mineral) mineral blocks.