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Post by PipSqueak on Apr 19, 2021 8:40:56 GMT -8
I currently have an herb mix from Rosewood called Natures Salad but has a lot of alfalfa and corn flakes and oat flakes which I do not prefer. Does anyone have a good brand of a herb mix that just has flowers and herbs that isn't too expensive. I am looking for under $10 but if it's really good $15 is fine.
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Post by betty on Apr 19, 2021 10:49:53 GMT -8
I get my herbs off Zooplus - but not sure you can get it over there?
Have you looked online for degu foods as they are quite flower/herb dense diets?
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Post by PipSqueak on Apr 19, 2021 14:38:08 GMT -8
No I haven't looked for degu food mixes. I have never thought of that before but will definitely look online.
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Post by betty on Apr 19, 2021 15:27:52 GMT -8
Yeah, I found some amazing plant/herb mixes quite by accident on (what I thought was an exclusively) rat food site that also did like 3 totally awesome degu foods.
Couldn't believe my luck!
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Post by yeti218 on May 3, 2021 9:16:41 GMT -8
I just ordered a flower blend for tortoises. It’s called zoomed tortoise flower blend, it was 10$ cad for 1.4 oz and contains Blue Cornflower, Chamomile Flower, Blue Mallow Flower, Red Cornflower, Rose Petal. I haven’t actually received it yet, but I’m optimistic. But yes, apparently tortoises eat flowers so there’s another section of the pet store you could scout out.
I’ve actually just bought some bunches of herbs from the grocery store and washed and dried them, I’d be open to buying a herb mix but haven’t found any good ones around me. I’ve got a lot of herbs started for my garden this summer so with any luck (gardening is luck for me, not skill) I’ll be able to dry some of those.
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Post by betty on May 4, 2021 17:14:32 GMT -8
Yes, I found drying from home really easy. I set up a sort of airing tray thing and just started putting stuff on it to see what happened. Had great success from stuff I saved last year - so it is full on this spring already.
Now I just need to keep remembering to just keep picking small amounts of everything possible as often as possible. It is so easy to have a sort of staggered drying process on the same tray that I can top up everything as it happens in the garden.
Currently drying daisies, dandelions and raspberry leaves - and giving the apple blossom fresh. Quite cool too that the dandilions will still turn to seeds several days after being picked - so you want to get those fresh if you want them to stay yellow! Not sure if gerbs can have the seeds (?) so been giving all the ripe ones to the harvest mice - they love them...
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