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 Number253543
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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.
Customer Reviews
86% Recommend
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Smells Fresh
By HeatherM on Jun 17, 2021
I have Satin Angora rabbits, and got this as a supplement to their regular Timothy Hay. One bunny didn't care for eating it, but preferred playing in it. The oat hay smelled fresh and did not seem to have much (if any) dust, which is very important for rabbits.
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bunnies no longer like this
By jayp on Jul 3, 2021
my bunnies used to love all oxbow hay. especially the oat. now they don’t like it. i noticed the oat hay is now thick and shiny. they have no interest and it’s been wasted.
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Quality going down south
By BElla on Jul 10, 2021
Been buying this couple times, from other vendor as well, but oxbow oat hay just too dusty this lately. Very short and dusty.
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Oat Hay from Oxbow
By BoosFave on Jun 17, 2021
My 14 year old male Opal Rex-Cottontail rabbit is very finicky- but he LOVES this product always! Thank you, Oxbow and Chewy.com!
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Bunnies love it
By Nala on Apr 28, 2021
My rabbit was having a problem with eating. Not eating enough hay. The Vet suggested Oat hay and she loves it. It brought back her appetite and now I mix it with timothy hay and she is back to normal. Good stuff.
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Like straw!!
By Bunmom on Jul 12, 2021
Literally straw with oat spays in it! Would be good for hamsters but my rabbits disapprove!
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Oxbow is always top shelf
By ChinMom89 on May 11, 2021
My boys love this product and other oxbow items. This I give a few times a week as a little treat, being that they will eat it all in 1 sitting
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Oxbow boat hay
By gary51856 on Mar 9, 2021
My piggies love their hay in longer strands thicker peices does good for their teeth. Their not really interested in the thinner stuff I've tried. They love their oat hay. Oxbow always has good hay. Wish chewy would have it on sale more often. Oxbow is expensive.
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Still lacking
By SueF on Jan 19, 2021
For quite some time this once great Oxbow product was my bunnies favorite treat hay. I buy a variety for my bunnies with Timothy being their primary source. For the past year I’ve had to stop ordering the Oxbow Oat hay because the quality had gone horribly down. I ordered a bag to see if the quality has gone back up but sadly it has not. The hay almost resembles straw. This is a lacking on Oxbows part, not Chewy’s. Chewy is awesome and always stands behind its products. Sorry Oxbow but this is a thumbs down !
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Nothing but Dust
By Kristen on Mar 31, 2021
I have ordered this many times because my piggy loves it, but I’m going to have to switch. Every bag is half hay and half tiny dusty pierces of hay. Makes a horrible mess and he won’t eat it.
