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- 03/30/2019 at 6:06 PM
  _Elouise_
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  Hi everyone! My new rescue Edgar is 3 years old Rex mix. I’ve had him for about 2 weeks, and he is set in his ways. The rescue had issues getting him to eat ANYTHING and had to use critical care a few times to make sure he didn’t go into stasis until they found out he will only eat Kaytee Fiesta pellets and alfalfa hay ?. when I say I’ve tried it all I mean I’ve tried it all to get him to eat literally any other type of hay.. we’ve done orchard, Timothy, orchard Timothy blend, oat, meadow, herbs and Timothy, mashing banana in his hay, put his pellets in his hay, I mean everything! I can’t switch his pellets until he eats hay because he obviously needs fiber in his diet and I think he would literally starve himself into stasis. I’ve never been at this much of a loss for getting a bun on hay, it’s literally part of my job ? does anyone else have ANY IDEAS at all!! It’s killing me feeding him Fiesta and it literally ripped my soul out buying a bag of alfalfa last night?? he won’t even eat fresh veggies, or grass I’m literally going insane… please help me!!!
- 03/30/2019 at 6:58 PM
  easter
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  Have you tried mixing a little ordinary hay into the alfalfa?, you could increase the ordinary hay a little every day…
  Also does he eat oats or flax seed? it helps alot fibre wise
- 03/30/2019 at 7:03 PM
  easter
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  _Elouise_ I’ve sent you a PM
- 03/30/2019 at 7:46 PM
  _Elouise_
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  Hi! I always have other hay mixed in with i with the alfalfa in the offchance he’ll eat some of it. I have 5 different piles with different types throughout his pen trying to find something! He literally will sit there and sort though his hay put the Timothy (or any other kind) in one pile and then the alfalfa in another… he’s ridiculous ?
- 04/03/2019 at 10:32 AM
  FlemishDad
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  That’s a funny image of Edgar sorting his hay.
  
  Don’t panic. If he has eaten like this for years he won’t drop dead tomorrow. Underfeed him slightly with the junky foods, so he loses weight slowly, with the healthier foods available. Eventually he will get hungry enough to try them.
  
  Can you change pellets gradually? Mix in a little of a healthier pellet one week, a little more the next, etc. That is the standard recommendation for changing pellets anyway.
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