Alfalfa?

[Alicia Conklin]

I bought Tucker some alfalfa hay to eat just for treats and I’m a bit concerned with the texture of it…it feels really hard like maybe stiff?  It’s completely different from the Timothy hay both in smell and in texture/appearance.  What SHOULD alfalfa look like?  I got kaytee brand because I only wanted a small little bag of it and the oxbow was a huge bag.  They both looked the same though..they look less like strands of dried grass and more like somebody took a bunch of weeds and small bush type things and picked them, cut them and made them into hay..if that makes any sense.  I thought that they just LOOKED different at the store since both the kaytee and the oxbow looked the same.  So, I thought this must be normal and brought it home.  It SMELLS fine…it smells so sweet even I want to eat it haha..ok not really..but you know what I mean.  So I think it’s ok..I just wonder if it should look like this..it’s almost like I don’t know..some kind of dried flower looking thing. 

 

I’m sure this makes no sense so hopefully you all know what I’m rambling on about!

[osprey]

This sounds normal to me.  The alfalfa that I feed to my foster bunny Cali has long, hard stems and small clusters of leaves.  The stems are either brown or green, and the leaf clusters are green.  The smell is very different from the smell of grass hays.

 

[bunnytowne]

Yep thats alfalfa and it sounds like it is in good shape too.

[Alicia Conklin]

YAY ok I’m glad to hear it sounds normal I’ve only ever given him timothy before so I didn’t have any idea what I was looking for!

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