Oxbow Oat Hay Small Animal Food
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Create a nutty-tasting and nutritious hay blend for your small pet with Oxbow Oat Hay Small Animal Food. Some small pets like Guinea Pigs, rabbits and chinchillas, need hay to maintain healthy digestion. In fact, hay should make up 75 percent of their diet. Along with digestion, hay keeps teeth trim and promotes natural foraging and mental stimulation. Oxbow Oat Hay Small Animal Food is high in fiber, low in protein and full of flavor, making it ideal for adult small pets. Feed unlimited amounts as an alternative to timothy, orchard and organic meadow hay.
Key Benefits- Oat Hay is companion forage that is similar in nutritional analysis to the western timothy. Your animals will love the immature oat grain that is contained in the seed head and will benefit greatly from the fiber in the leaf and stem.
- Oat Hay is a good source of fiber and also gives variety to your animal's diet. This product also makes a good bedding alternative to wheat straw.
- The stage of maturity at harvest determines the development of the seed head. If the hay is harvested immaturely, at the early bloom stage, the actual oat kernel is not mature. The seed heads consist primarily of oat husks, which are rich in fiber.
- Hay is absolutely vital to the health of small herbivores. It provides not only nutrition, but environmental enrichment that mimics the animal's natural habitat.
- Provides a long-strand fiber source that is needed to improve the digestive and intestinal functions by stimulating the digestive system. When animals are fed free-choice hay, it promotes their natural chewing behavior, which helps prevent molar spurs and other dental problems that are so common in these small herbivores.
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Item Number96058
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Food FormHay
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Small Pet TypeRabbit, Guinea Pig, Chinchilla, Degu
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Special DietLow-Protein, High Fiber
100% Oat Hay. Preservative and Additive Free. Loose Hay Contains Stems, Leaves, and Limited Seed Heads.
| Guaranteed Analysis | |
|---|---|
| Crude Protein | 7.0% min |
| Crude Fat | 1.5% min |
| Crude Fiber | 32.0% max |
| Moisture | 15.0% max |
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Oat Hay can be fed free choice to rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, prairie dogs and other herbivores. Free - choice means that the feed is available at all times.
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Growing Animals: Unlimited amounts
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Mature Animals: Unlimited amounts
Fresh From the Farm
For Oxbow, quality products begin in the field. Oxbow has spent years cultivating relationships and educating its growers about the proper way to nurture and harvest hay specifically for small pets. Then, using an exclusive process, Oxbow hay is inspected, graded, cleaned and sorted to ensure only the best hay is packaged under the Oxbow name.
Going the Extra Acre
- VETERINARIAN APPROVED Recommended by vets worldwide
- LESS DUSTY Extraction reduces fine dust particles
- HAND-SORTED Sorted by hand with care
- EXPERT GROWN IN THE USA Grown especially for small pets on Oxbow's family of farms
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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dry and old
By rabbithay on Jan 3, 2021
for some reason they came yellow and dried up and old, i have bought this exact brand and type before at a local pet store and my rabbit loved it. it was green and thinner cut but this one came yellow and thick cut. i dont know if it was a bad batch or if i got unlucky
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Not anymore
By Lenny on Dec 23, 2020
Ive ordered about 50 bags of this stuff over the course of a year and the quality has only gotten worse and worse. No more green pieces of hay . Just spurs and dry pale yellow brittle nodules of hay that my pigs despise. Sigh........
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Declining quality
By Pagow on Dec 31, 2020
Our piggies love oat hay as a treat but for whatever reason the quality of the hay in the last few bags was just terrible. I've written Oxbow as well. Normally their products are higher quality.
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Very picky bunnies
By Dreamergirl on Dec 11, 2020
Unfortunately not one of my three rabbits liked this hay. I even left it to see if eventually they would, but no. The hay looked good was reasonable in price but not for me I guess.
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i know its good quality but my pigs didnt like it
By sabusauce on Dec 4, 2020
My GPs usually eat kaytee and while its less nutritious and they need more theyll actually eat it. This stuff was fresher thicker and more nutritious but they werent eating it.
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Great for my bunnies!
By Misty on Jan 9, 2021
I got this to mix with my bunnies other hay to give them some variety. They love it! It’s really nice quality and fresh!
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Great for our Household - no allergies!
By turtlekisses on Jul 17, 2020
We were the family that took the class pet home Friday, but school hasn't resumed because of Covid haha. Anyway, learning the ropes of caring for the guinea pigs/cavys started with finding a way we could handle them even being in the house. I knew I was allergic to hay, but I didn't realize just how allergic I was until I ended up getting tested for Covid because of never had such a bad reaction before! Annnyyyway, we went to the local let store and basically did an allergy panel/grid on my arm of different hays to see if there was one I could manage to have in the house, and oat hay was the ONLY one that didn't immediately give me hives. So this is what we feed our pigs, and they do fantastic We were the family that took the class pet home Friday, but school hasn't resumed because of Covid haha. Anyway, learning the ropes of caring for the guinea pigs/cavys started with finding a way we could handle them even being in the house. I knew I was allergic to hay, but I didn't realize just how allergic I was until I ended up getting tested for Covid because of never had such a bad reaction before! Annnyyyway, we went to the local let store and basically did an allergy panel/grid on my arm of different hays to see if there was one I could manage to have in the house, and oat hay was the ONLY one that didn't immediately give me hives. So this is what we feed our pigs, and they do fantastic with it, and my kiddo is super happy that we don't have to find a new home for the beloved cavys. … more
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Never Again
By AmyIris on Jul 8, 2020
I have bought this hay several times and my guinea pigs always loved it. This last bag I bought, had HUGE chunks of tumbleweed in it (see pic). Thanks goodness my piggies didn’t eat it. I have tried to return it with no luck. Such a shame because I love Oxbow products.
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Sometimes its good, sometime it's very bad
By Heatherlynn on May 8, 2020
I've bought this hay 4 times total. The first 3 bags were great. Bunny ate the seed heads mostly, but some of the stems. No problems with digestion and she had nice large healthy poops signifying she's getting enough fiber. The last bag I bought though, I believe the seed heads were too mature. Both days I gave her this hay she seemed to have gas pain and dark wet poops. Pretty much the same thing that happens when she gets too much banana or actual oat groats. That never happens with sps oat hay. And she eats all the seed heads she wants. I won't be giving her anymore of this bag I just bought. I hate wasting hay.
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Fantastic product
By Cory on May 31, 2020
Oxbow's Oat hay has a tendency to get a lot more "dusty" hay particles in the bottom compared to come of their other hay products, but it's a great, healthy choice for breaking up the monotony of the same hays every day for our rabbit, chinchilla, and guinea pig. We also take the fine dust particles and mulch it in our bioactive hamster enclosure.
