Oxbow Essentials Healthy Handfuls Gerbil & Hamster Food
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Feed your hamster or gerbil a healthy diet free of seeds, high-sugar fruits and artificial preservatives, colors and flavors with Oxbow Essentials Healthy Handfuls Hamster & Gerbil Food. While hamsters and gerbils love seeds and fruits, they can be high in calories and low in nutritional quality. Consuming too much of these foods can cause finicky eating patterns and obesity. Oxbow Essentials Healthy Handfuls Hamster & Gerbil Food is a complete diet balanced with nutrients that help maintain proper nutrition, weight, digestive function and dental health. It contains a blend of timothy hay, oats and barley to provide vital nutrients that support daily function and performance in hamsters and gerbils. Serve with Oxbow hays to encourage foraging and provide enrichment for relieving stress and preventing boredom.
Key Benefits- Specially formulated to mirror a hamster/gerbils diet. This will ensure that your pet lives a healthy lifestyle. Completely balanced and nutritious.
- Fortified with stabilized Vitamin C, A and B12. This helps ensure that your pet's health and immunity system are in tip-top shape.
- Includes high-fiber Timothy hay meal that promotes healthy gastrointestinal health. Keep your pet's health at optimal level.
- Hamsters and gerbils are omnivores, which means they eat meat and plant material.
- This product uses farm-fresh timothy hay to provide the fiber content necessary to maintain intestinal health and prevent digestive upset.
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Item Number96005
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Food FormPellets
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Small Pet TypeGerbil, Hamster
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Special DietHigh Fiber
Timothy Meal, Pearled Barley (Rolled), Oat Groats, Flax Seed Meal, Canola Meal, Canola Oil, Wheat Gluten, Millet, Limestone, Flax Seed, Salt, Yeast Culture (Dehydrated), Mixed Tocopherols, Vitamin E Supplement, Choline Chloride, Zinc Proteinate, Zinc Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin, Copper Sulfate, Selenium Yeast, Vitamin A Supplement, Folic Acid, D-Calcium Pantothenate, Copper Proteinate, Riboflavin Supplement, Manganese Proteinate, Biotin, Manganous Oxide, Thiamine Mononitrate, Magnesium Sulfate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Sodium Selenite, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Cobalt Carbonate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Calcium Iodate, Rosemary Extract.
| Guaranteed Analysis | |
|---|---|
| Crude Protein | 15.0% min |
| Crude Fat | 4.5% min |
| Crude Fiber | 10.0% min |
| Crude Fiber | 15.0% max |
| Moisture | 10.0% max |
| Calcium | 0.6% min |
| Calcium | 1.0% max |
| Phosphorus | 0.4% min |
| Vitamin A | 10,000 IU/kg min |
| Vitamin D | 900 IU/kg min |
| Vitamin E | 190 IU/kg min |
| Animal | Under 6 Months / Pregnant / Nursing Daily Feeding (cup) | Adult Daily Feeding (cup) |
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| Small Hamster | Unlimited | 1/8 |
| Gerbil/Large Hamster | Unlimited | 1/3 |
Please note that these are guidelines. If your hamster or gerbil is overweight or underweight, please contact your veterinarian or Oxbow for more specific feeding information.
Note: Hamsters are known to hoard and hide their food, particularly females or those housed with other hamsters. Be sure to check for stockpiles of food and adjust daily rations as required.
Oxbow's Flagship Line
Oxbow's Essentials line is the diet that set the bar for today's small pet nutrition. There's a unique food for a variety of small animals—chinchillas, guinea pigs, rabbits, mice, rats, hamsters and gerbils. These uniform pellets provide the right nutrients for each species with no artificial preservatives, colors or flavors.
Treats for Enrichment
In addition to their foods, Oxbow's healthy treats are rewarding for small animals and their owners. Simple Rewards are made with wholesome, natural ingredients like freeze-dried fruits and veggies, Timothy hay, and aromatic herbs. They're great for training, bonding or simply adding a little variety.
The Gold Standard of Small Pet Nutrition
An ideal small animal diet includes 20% fortified foods for herbivores and 75% for omnivores for essential vitamins and micronutrients. Oxbow's three fortified food lines are recommended by veterinarians worldwide because they're specially formulated to meet the unique needs of small animals—a true gold standard of nutrition.
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About Oxbow
Family-owned and operated, Oxbow is passionately committed to helping small animals lead longer, healthier lives. Grown by experts on Oxbow's family of farms, their formulas and life-staged diets have defined the way small animals are fed today. From plant to pet, Oxbow products meet the highest standards time and time again.
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not nutritional
By aubrey on Feb 6, 2021
I got this for my hamster at the beginning as i wasn’t sure what to feed ONLY because a lot of things changed since i last had a hamster. This food is NOT good! You can add it to your hamsters diet, but NOT alone. This is all hay, it will go right through your hamsters system. Oxbow doesn’t have the correct food for hamster as of now. They need seed!! Higgins sunburst is what i switched to. I also feed Mazuri Rat and Mouse blocks which provides a lot of nutritional value!!
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MY Hammies Love It
By HammyMommy on Jan 21, 2021
People keep leaving reviews about how other specific brands are better choices due to protein content; but when I look the the nutritional breakdown, they match Oxbow. My hamsters are healthy as can be and love this food. I prefer it over other choices due to the fact the hamsters will get picky and only eat what they like from the mixes. This food gives them a balanced diet no matter what. I haven't had a single hamster refuse to eat it, and I do give them other nutrients outside of it as well. Over all, it's a great product and I love the brand.
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We recommend
By monica on Dec 30, 2020
This food works very well for my hamster. The kibble shape is important, I think. I bought a bag of the organic version of this food and it's shaped like pellets (versus circles). My hamster started jamming his cheeks with it and every time we'd play with him, he'd spit it out on us. He never does that with this food so we've been buying this one consistently for a long time. Our Russian White hamster is almost 2 years old now and seems to be going strong.
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Awful food
By Jenna525 on Dec 30, 2020
This food is awful do not buy hamsters are omnivores and require protein not fiber like in hay this whole food is made out of hay you are basically starving your hamster.A good recommendation for hamster food is Mazuri rat and mouse diet and Higgins sunburst mix this and your hamster will have all tdd he nutrients it needs.
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Great quality
By Mataya on Jan 4, 2021
This was the hamster food recommended to us at the pet store. It doesn't contain seeds or anything the hamster might pick and choose from. Just healthy, timothy grass and other nutrients. Our hamster loves it!
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Hamsters !!
By Delicious on Apr 7, 2021
My Syrian hamsters love it. They enjoy it holding and eating them.
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Do not buy. Hamsters hate it
By 9999 on Dec 19, 2020
Dwarf hamsters refuse to eat this crap. It is not a good product.
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Delicious food
By Brooke on Nov 4, 2020
My three ham hams love this food. It's nutritious and I think the pieces are cute.
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My two gerbils love this food!
By Courtney on Jul 22, 2020
I heard so many good thing's about this fed that i had to try it myself. My two girl gerbil were on a different fed when i first got them and didn't seem to like it very much... Once i changed to Oxbow fed they love it and eat every bit of it!
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DONT BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By thetinyzoo on Jul 31, 2020
This is made up of mostly hate and hamsters cannot digest hey please do not buy this for hamsters. Also there is no different textures or anything so it makes the food very boring and makes your hamster sad! The only reason you should buy this is if the store you bought your hamster from was eating this cause you have to get them used to the new food!!!
