Timothy Gold Hay, 5Lb, Blue

This review is based on using this with my two dwarf bunnies.I was a bit hesitant to leave a large quantity of hay in it's original packaging - plastic bag inside a box. However, this hay keeps fresh for months and all strands are still nice and green inside compared to oxbow which had lots of brown strands. This hay is also much softer than Oxbow (much easier on my hands as I've gotten cuts from Oxbow's hay) and but the dust within my package at the bottom is similar to that of Oxbow. The hay is very compressed which allows me to put more hay in my hay box without many stay pieces of hay flying around. This is a huge plus; I don't have to fill up the box as often and less cleaning.The original plastic bag is thin and easily torn. My bunnies easily nibbled little holes in it, poked holes in the bag with their nails, as well as having a hole from opening the package. I do not leave this out for them to do this and is only from the short time that it takes for me to fill up their hay box. The plastic bag is also much more crinkly than Oxbow which attracts the bunnies even more. Not sure if this is good or not =).

This is probably the highest-quality timothy hay I've found for my guinea pigs (it's soft but not too soft, and has a good grassy aroma), but on the past two orders, the hay has been compressed into a bag that takes up perhaps half the size of the box (whereas it previously took up more or less the whole thing). The result is that there's a lot more chaff - and, while I haven't weighed the boxes, I'm really not sure they actually contain 5 lbs of hay anymore (it could just be the greater amount of chaff, but my guinea pigs seem to go through a box in half the time that they used to, i.e. they finish it in two weeks rather than four). Really frustrating - I'm going to look for another vendor for my next order.

I ordered from this company last month, mostly due to the great but sparse reviews and the free prime shipping. The hay was amazing. Sweet smelling, fresh, and long green stalks. Therefore, I didn't hesitate to buy from them again this month. But the cut this time around was quite disappointing. The hay was cut into shorter pieces and wasn't the same vibrant green. It didn't smell sweet and felt very dry with mixed brown pieces. I will probably order from them again to see how the consistency is, but be warned.

The media could not be loaded. I have been buying this for years, but starting from 2014 the quality has SIGNIFICANTLY dropped, it's now much more dusty, brown, short and just over all inedible.Review update (7/4/14):I dropped 3 stars from the product because of 2 reasons:1. The price hike, it used to be about $17, to $26, now $332. The quality of the hay has significantly dropped, it no longer look like the hay in my video anymore; more often than not, it's dusty, many brown, short pieces, and also quit moist; it almost looks like you get the scraps of hay.After nearly 3 years of buying this hay I became quite disappointed with this product since about 6 months, yes the prime delivery is amazing, but the quality and the price just does not match up.The strange thing is, if you buy it straight from americanpetdiner.com (I usually get the 25 lb gold timothy), the quality is really fantastic, like how this 5lb one used to be. The 25lb box's price is ok ($54) but shipping is hefty (about $38), totaling $92, and it always takes 10+ days to arrive; the cost & inconvenience really adds up, we often run out of hay before the big box arrive & end up buying bad quality hay from pet stores. I started to find other places to order hay, fresh, affordable & fast shipping are my priorities, please leave me a comment if you have good recommendations. Thanks.

I am not normally not someone who feels compelled to write a product review, but this is a product we have regularly ordered for our rabbits for the past few years and enjoyed very much... until recently. The most recent orders we have been receiving have come in different packaging and are of dramatically lower quality.Their are pictures of both "variants" of this product at the top of the page:- the larger rectangular white box is the high quality hay that we have been regularly receiving for a long time- the narrower brown box has started coming recently and is of much lower quality (hay is highly compressed which makes it harder to deal with, very finely ground/chopped which makes a huge mess, and doesn't seem to be enjoyed as much by the rabbits)Until this product returns the high quality we have come to expect I must rate it 2/5: the inconsistency is unacceptable. Either provide a way to select the "high quality" variant or I will have to start shopping around for alternatives

I have tried a few brands of hay in the past, and until I saw and smelled this one, I didn't know hay could be this good. It was a refreshingly green color and very soft. It smelled like it just got cut off the field and made my downstairs smell like a lovely farm :)The quality waaay surpasses the competitors. It is in full grass form with almost no stalks. It is in a de-compacted form so reaching in and grabbing a handful doesn't mean you have to rip and tear some away making a mess all over your floor. It comes in a white box, in a clear bag, with one of those ties that come on bread. This apparently really helps keep it fresh. Don't get rid of the box, keep it in there. The way the hay is layered in there really helps with the feeding process.And unlike the other brands, this stuff made my bunny run to it like she does to a bowlful of veggies. As soon as I put it in her hay rack, she goes right for it. And there is significantly less of the inedible stuff on the floor of her cage.The verdict? A wonderful hay that is way worth the price and the wait. Forget about the stuff in the pet store and make this your go-to brand.