Spanish anybody?

[Bunstheboss]

Hey there. I have a problem. The last months, before and after I got Baileys, I have been reading everything I could get about the care of house bunnies and I have been doing my best to follow everything to the letter. However, I have a problem: I have read that a rabbit can eat alfalfa hay while he is a baby, so Baileys has his serving of alfalfa hay everyday, apart from his pellets. But, I also read that then I should switch to a timothy hay diet, since alfalfa is very high on proteins. But I don’t know what timothy hay is! Has any of you got the Spanish word for it? I consulted vets, but here there are not many rabbit savvy vets… so, they all just tell me alfalfa is ok. Translations welcome!!!!

Thank you!!!

I know I am a pest, but I can’t help showing him off!!!!!! Here he is in his ‘private garden’! =)

 

 

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[babybunsmum]

awww he’s so cute!  what a lucky bun to have his own garden

i wish i knew spanish… it’s a beatiful language.  hope someone else can help out with this!

[JK]

It’s a different variety from alfalfa but I don’t know either how it would be translated in Spanish!!! Help someone!

[Sarita]

Timothy is a grass hay if that helps and any grass hay is fine like Orchard or Brome or Meadow Hay.

[RabbitPam]

OK, here goes.

I don’t speak a word of Spanish (took French in High School and barely passed ) but I speak Google fluently. I just did a search on the House Rabbit Society website and they had an article that appears to be about diet and hay. (First looked up Hay in Spanish/English dictionary and got Heno.) I saw the paragraph below so copied it here. No idea what it all says, but spotted timothy grass in parentheses and bebitos and alfalfa, so thought it was what you needed. I inserted the link so you could read it and also the other articles they have in Spanish. My impression is that they have translated all the basic care. Hope this helps!

heno de fleo (timothy grass)

Heno

El artículo mas importante de la dieta del conejo es heno de pasto, y debe ser servido en cantidades ilimitadas ya sean adultos o bebitos. Esto es porque el conejo que come solamente comida tipo perdigón no recibe fibras en cantidades suficientes para mantener los intestinos trabajando correctamente. Las fibras largas del heno empujas las cosas a lo largo de los intestinos y mantienen los músculos intestinales en condiciones óptimas. Esto evita la formación de bolas de pelos — ¡que en actualidad es un síntoma de fallo intestinal! Esto es extremadamente común en conejos mal alimentados y es fatal si no se trata.

Heno de alfalfa, aunque sabroso, contiene demasiada proteína y calcio para la dieta del conejo. Al contrario, use heno de fleo (timothy grass), avena, de la costa (coastal), o una mezcla de fleo/alfalfa.

http://www.rabbit.org/translations/spanish/debo-darle-de-comer.html

P.S. I am crazy about your avatar!

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[Bunstheboss]

Thank you rabbitpam! Isn’t Baileys’ butt worthy of praise?? =) That article is just great! Anyway, I am afraid it is a local translation, since I do not know what ‘fleo’ is. I have tried to get it at places around where I live, but nobody knew what it was. I will keep on trying anyway!

Thank you guys!!

[RabbitPam]

I couldn’t find a direct translation of fleo either, though it seems to be used in conjunction with timothy or alfalfa hay, so I think it’s just a form of the Spanish name for different types of hay/grasses.

Maybe you could order some? I checked out Oxbow, and they didn’t have an international site in Argentina or even South America, but they said if you have any questions to contact international sales:
international@oxbowanimalhealth.com.

Not turning up any other sources. I’m stumped!

(Bailey has the best bunny butt ever!)

[Scarlet_Rose]

Si senorita! I had six years of Spanish in college and helped my niece through hers as well, although I had a stint of Russian and Swedish after that and sometimes get mixed up.  Timothy hay may be called one thing for our local mexicanos but for our South American friends, I am not sure exactly what you would call it or if you even have it.

Babelfish is an awesome translator for any language: http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Heno del timothy is supposed to be timothy hay in spanish.  I know that doesn’t seem to help much.  Some areas do not even sell timothy, places like Australia used to not allow it accross their borders. Do you have any friends with horses?  They might be able to help and you could buy it cheaper that way as well if you buy a flake or two of hay from them. Timothy hay is normally what is fed to horses.

Hope this helps!

 

[KatnipCrzy]

Do they give the nutritional info on hay packages like they do here in the US for the plastic bags of hay that are sold in the pet stores?  Oxbow, Kaytee and others list protein, fat, fiber, etc…  If they list that on the package- compare those for something similiar to Timothy Hay.

I wonder if there are different kinds of hay over there?  other types due to different climate and different native grass species???

 

Julie

[BinkyBunny]

If you don’t have Timothy, I wonder if you have other options like orchard and oat. Hmmmm. So what kind of hay is available there to you?

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

***Maybe you spanish-speaking people can help me!!

I’m going to Cuba soon (will start a yippee thread soon) but I’d like to know how to write

“This is for you, my friend” or something along those lines. I’d like to bring gifts for house-keeping again, but last time we had to write in english and at first she didn’t know to take it. Could anyone help me to write that out? Thanks!!

[Bunstheboss]

Thank you everybody!!! You have been so helpful!!! I should be able to find out now with all this info. Kkaneeandkahlua: Here’s what you should write:

Ésto es para ti, mi amigo.’

Let me know if you need anything else!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Gracias!!

[Bunstheboss]

Gracias Scarlet Rose!!! Good for you!!!

De nada K&K!!!!

[Gravehearted]

oo I’m so glad everyone was able to help figure that out! let us know if you’re able to find it ok?

[skunklionshow]

My dissertation brain is still problematic…but I thought they speak Portuguese in Argentina?  Not that your lying about speaking spanish and not portuguese…after all you would know what language you speak.

Me gusta tu conejo.  Es muy guapo.  Me gusta el foto de cuello.  However I believe that cuello is an Italian bad word for butt!  I took Spanish in Elementary school and Italian in HS.  Most of the latino students took Italian instead of Spanish so we frequently spoke “Spitalian” a blend of Spanish & Italian, depending on what words we remembered in what language.  As you can see I still speak it to this day

[Bunstheboss]

Hello Skunklionshow!  Don’t worry, many people outside South America think that we speak Portuguese and have great beaches. But that is Brazil, a neighbouring country. We speak Spanish here in Argentina and although we have a very long coast over the Atlantic Ocean, unfortunately, the beaches are not as beautiful as in Brazil.  Most people here are of Spanish and Italian origin. Also, it gets really cold here in winter. It snows a lot, specially in the south, and the landscape is a lot like Aspen, to give an example, or Switzerland.  

In Spanish, ‘cuello’ means ‘neck’. I guess you meant ‘cola’, that is the butt. I loved that word, Spitalian!!! Italian is a beautiful language. Where do you live?

By the way, is my English ok? Please tell me if I make any mistakes! Corrections welcome!!!

 

[Scarlet_Rose]

Bunnycraze, your English is excellent!

[RabbitPam]

Bunnycraze,
Your English is so good that I was thinking that you must be an English speaking person who had moved to Argentina and used Spanish as her second language, not the other way around. It’s Excellent!

By the way, Got hay?

[LittlePuffyTail]

Can’t help with the spanish but have to add that your bun is definetly worthy of showing off. And yes he has a very nice bum!!!

[Bunstheboss]

Rabbitpam, I think I finally got the righ hay. Scarlet Rose mentioned Timothy Hay is what is fed to horse, so I bought exactly that. Thank you Scarlet Rose! Thank you for the comments on my English, they mean a lot to me, guess so many years of studying have payed off…!

[skunklionshow]

I agree w/ everyone else your English is great!  Many people that speak a secondary language tend to have difficulties writing that language, but you did a muy bueno job.  I thought the same thing that you were a native english speaker that relocated to Argentina…that’s kinda funny that we all had similar thoughts.  I think your S. American perspectives and views will be a great addition.  I don’t think I’d seen any fellow S. Americans on this site b/f.  I LOVE that binkybunny is so international!

[Scarlet_Rose]

You are very welcome Bunnycraze!  I was hoping that might help.  

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Yup I’ll ditto that, definitely seems like English is your first language!!

[Bunstheboss]

Thank you guys!!! I have to admit I feel a little proud of  myself! I always though native speakers would definitely find my English ‘odd’ and would realise I am not an English speaker. Your comments have been a great ego boost!!! =)

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