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Where to Order? Local retailers

Scintie

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I live in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently I'm using a crappy mix for my pigs and want to change to oxbow, Kim's or sweet meadow but I can not find anywhere locally to get any of them. Are these online order only? I checked the kms site and they wanted 25$ shipping for a 25$ bag of food. Anyone in the Missouri area know where to get high quality pellets?
 
I know most people are against buying from pet stores, but I was able to find Oxbow pellets at PetSmart. It was a 5lb bag, I'm not sure of the shipping of the item from PetSmart itself, if you were to order online, though. I am in the St. Louis area, so I'm not sure if they'd be available in Kansas City. Someone else on this forum may be of better help for you!
 
hello
you can buy it at petsmart.they have the hay and pellets.
 
Thank you! I will check at petsmart.
 
Scintie, if you'll figure out the price per pound, you'll find that the online stuff is comparable to or much cheaper than that in pet stores. The hay at my local pet store works out to about $4 per pound. I live 2,000 miles from Kleenmama, and the $1.50 per pound I pay for hay includes the shipping.

KM pellets are about the same price as Oxbow from the pet store for me -- sometimes a few pennies more, sometimes less, depending on the shipping rates at the moment.
 
Scintie, if you'll figure out the price per pound, you'll find that the online stuff is comparable to or much cheaper than that in pet stores. The hay at my local pet store works out to about $4 per pound. I live 2,000 miles from Kleenmama, and the $1.50 per pound I pay for hay includes the shipping.

KM pellets are about the same price as Oxbow from the pet store for me -- sometimes a few pennies more, sometimes less, depending on the shipping rates at the moment.

You are right I compared the prices for kleenmamas to my kaytee hay. For 40lb of food/hay it would cost right at 60$ I paid 5$ for one lb of hay at the store. It just seems like its really expensive because of the amounts. Maybe I will go ahead and order.
 
You will be amazed at the quality of kleenmamas compared to the oxbow. My piggies live it.. I tried to give them some oxbow to see which they liked better and they wouldnt touch the oxbow.
 
I'm hoping my piggies will eat it. They won't touch wild harvest pellets just the crap that's mixed in it which I know now is bad for them. I'm going to try to pick everything out of the wild harvest except the pellets till I can get some kleenmamas.

Another question, I really do not know how old my piggies are but they weigh 380g and 388g. Would I get Timothy or alfalfa?
 
Those are pretty tiny pigs... I would give them alfalfa-based pellets. They should get unlimited grass hay (timothy, orchard, bluegrass), and with alfalfa-based pellets they will not need any supplemental alfalfa hay.

Its hard to guess age by weight, but that small they are almost certainly under 6 months of age. I have had baby fosters weigh that much within 2 months.
 
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Timothy would be fine and if you think they might be under six months could supplement with some parsley or some other calcium high veggie

i have a 1 month old in with my older girls so during lap time she get some parsley for extra calcium and eats timothy pellets and timothy or bluegrass hay with the others
 
Thank you. I will probably order a smaller bag of alfalfa pellets. I'm not gonna lie, I got them from a pet store which was a horrible idea (one of them has been sick since day 1 took her to the vet and she has ringworm and a intestinal parasite, both pigs are being treated. I learned my lesson, no more pet store animals) So I don't know how old they are, I've had them both about a month.
They get unlimited Timothy hay, kaytee brand but I'll be switching to kleenmamas on that also (kaytee hay seems really thick and like it could poke them easily)

I've been using a kitchen scale to weigh them but the vet scale and my scale weighed sparkles the same weight so I'm pretty sure it's accurate. Sparkles was 398 g but she's had diarrhea so she lost 18g. She's been on meds for 3 days and the diarrhea seems to be about gone so I'm going to weigh her again tomorrow

Thanks for the info, glad I found this site. Have learned alot


(Just noticed in my first post my iPod auto corrected KMS to Kim's. It meant to be kms. ) :)
 
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