eeeeewwwww! (shiver). Is this hay or pellets? If is hay, I do know that it is not uncommon for pests to occasionally find their way in there as the hay is being baled and stored. I’ve seen crickets in large bales before, and I think another member(can’t remember who), who has a horse, said she even found a shoe in her hay!! Now that seems a bit over the top! But I guess it’s just not that uncommon as hay by it’s very nature can easily hide things in it. (like a needle in haystack!) It is one of those things that even with the best quality control and major sifting, that something could still get stuck within all the hay strands. It grows outside, it’s baled outside and many places store it outside so I think it’s just inevitable. Unfortunately, you got be the unlucky one. I know I’d be feeling itchy and gross all night regardless!

If it was pellets, then ???, don’t know. I’ve never found anything like that in my pellets.

I hear ya! I’m getting all itchy right now!

im more the opposite, i dont mind bugs and i NEVER kill one, i always put them outside or just leave them to it, they are more scared of u than u are of them! although we dont really get cockroaches here so i dont have that trouble but i do try and remove spiders and things without killing them, i had a hampster who used to LOVE eatings spiders, flies, you name it, anytime anything went near her cage she would sit in wait for it to come into the cage then she would go on a rampage till she got it and ate it – weird i know. Anyway im sure the bug wouldnt harm layla and i think there will be the odd one in every brand of alfalfa so i wouldnt worry about it too much – just be more careful what you pick up next time hehe

davita, I’m with you. My boss and I were just saying yesterday that the one bug neither of us could stomach was a cockroach. And (such fun) in Florida, they have Palmetto bugs – huge roaches with wings!!! She can pick up garden snakes, I can rescue a gecko lizard), but we both EW EW EW with those bugs.

Living in apartments puts me at the mercy of their extermination (or lack of) schedule, and about twice I saw a Palmetto run out of Spockie’s room when I put on the light during the night. Was he OK? If a bug gets into their cage alive, are the buns at risk at all? It bothered me more to see it come from there than anywhere else.

ewwww… time for the heebeegeebee dance!  when i was still living with my parents mom went to make coffee one day using some ‘gourmet’  ground coffee they’d gotten from a friend.  there was a huge dried out cockroach in it.  bah. :shudders:   i don’t like squishing bugs so they end up getting swept outside or sacrificed to my dog for extra protein & B12.

Ick – I have found a dead grasshopper in my hay before.

Every summer when baling round bales of hay, it’s not uncommon to find a baby deer, crow, rabbit, or other small woodland creature that got wrapped up in the bale….

baby deer or rabbits? Seriously?  As for shoes, I can totally understand.  I remember as a child losing my gumboot in a crop never to be seen again.  It was either baled up or ploughed in the following year.  My siblings and I also lost a few shoes while jumping down the wool bales – they have machines for this now.  The wool bales would have been exported o/s and shoes recovered by some unsuspecting factory worker!

I’ve been considering getting a bunny for awhile now I have one all picked out and everything but reading this may have been a deal breaker, I am TERRIFIED of bugs, grasshoppers in particular and I’ve never encountered a cockroach but it would probably kill me. Ick…ick ick ick!!!

Oh NO!!!!!!!!!!  Katydidz – Don’t let bugs deter you.  They’re more frightened of you than you are of them.  Repeat 5 times on the hour, every hour.  YOU MUST GET A BUNNY!  Your life will be poorer for not having experienced having one all because of an icky little bug.  Don’t let them win.  Get a bunny …Bugs happen……..Bunnies are bliss……

hahaha. thanks jersey. I’ll see if i can toughen up. You’re talking about a girl that had to crawl across her car to get out on the passenger side because there was a grasshopper on the drivers side. They seriously give my panic attacks. But maybe I can handle it if I have some bunny bliss.