Oxbow Western Timothy Hay Small Animal Food

Lovely quality hay,nice and green to. My guinea pigs adore it.

I’ve been really pleased with the Oxbow Western Timothy Hay — it smells fresh, has long green strands, and my rabbit absolutely loves it. It keeps him busy chewing and supports his digestion well. The only downside is that the bag can be a bit pricey and sometimes has some dust at the bottom, but the overall quality makes it worth it for my bunny’s health.

Oxbow hay is very good for my rabbit and this product is worth it. It even smells pleasant

My guinea pigs really like this. Admittedly expensive. Mixing it in with their other hay makes it go further!

Perfect bedding or food for your small animal

I really wanted to like this but sadly neither my piggies nor rabbits did. Good points: The two bags I tried were a lovely green colour and honestly looked very uniform and soft, the smell it did have was fresh. It appeared to be lovely thick quality grass that had been dried. There was no dust or any other flowers, herbs, dandelions, types of grass etc. Bad points: The smell in both packs was very gentle and hard to detect compared to some. My rabbits normally come running when they smell hay they didnt seem to notice this. Whilst uniform and soft the fact it all one type of soft grass meant their was no depth of textures or flavours for them, so they got bored straight away. Also worryingly without the firmer stalks they will not be getting the essential wear their teeth need from the 'heartier' parts of hay. Overall my buns and pigs completely ignored this as food but did sleep on it. But my bunnys generally prefer firmer hay to be fair. If it was cheap I would have brought it for a base, for foraging and bedding for my guinea pigs and rabbits as it was lovely and soft thus acting as a back up rather than their main source of hay but at over £9 per kilo as opposed to £2 at the lower end and c.4-5 for some fantastic quality hays it is insanely overpriced and just not affordable when it will be used as bedding. It might be great for some animals who need a softer more 'subtle' hay but it didnt offer enough scent to entice them offered no flavour or variety and not enough firmer parts for their teeth.

After we adopted are rabbit we were worried about how lethargic she had become but after an hour of having this hay suddenly she had sprung to life this hay has changed my rabbit 😁

I've purchased this Oxbow Alfalfa Hay 30 times in the past. This offering was dried out and yellow (despite a 2027 use by date). My animals didn't like the smell of it and I wouldn't be happy letting them eating it. So that's £7.99 in the bin and it'll be the last time I buy it. Thanks a lot.