Oxbow Western Timothy Hay Small Animal Food

Perfect bedding or food for your small animal

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.

I've been using Oxbow products for nearly 20 years. I have 5 house rabbits and a guinea pig and it's very important to me that they eat top quality food and hay and products that do them good. Hay is a vital part of rabbits and guinea pigs diets. Rabbits are supposed to eat their size in hay per day and a hay based diet supplemented with fresh vegetables and a good pellet food is a natural and healthy diet. Rabbits teeth are constantly growing and hay is a good way for rabbits to gently wear their teeth down. Most cheap shop bought hays are very poor quality and suitable only for bedding. Oxbow offers a variety of hays, each different. The Orchard Grass hay is generally a softer hay than the others. Depending on which cut it is, this hay can be very soft to a slightly harder hay. Bunnies with dental issues often struggle to eat hay, but this softer hay means that most of my dental buns have enjoyed it. It smells delicious and for me that is a sign of a good quality hay. I wouldn't feed my animals hay that had no smell - it's a bit like strawberries. Strawberries that smell yummy taste much nicer than those with no fragrance. In all the years I've had bunnies and guinea pigs, Orchard Grass has always been a favourite.

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

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

I was genuinely at a loss with hay for my two teenage, male guinea pigs (Fudgy with black/white fur and Cookie beige/white). I had tried about 7 types of hay over the last few months including second cut, third cut, USA / UK grown etc. After a a few days of eating normal amounts, they would leave huge quantities. I kept having to throw bags of hay away and trying new varieties as they would near refuse to eat the hay. It was a nightmare, they even started losing weight! I thought if this Oxbow variety of hay/grass doesn't work then it is off to the vets as it was becoming such an issue. The moment I gave it to Fudgy and Cookie they devoured it, in a way they had never done before. It smells wonderful (like tea leaves). I couldn't believe it but, I thought they may stop eating later as they had done previously. However, they just keep eating the hay with no issues! I am having to refill their haystacks about 3 times a day which was unheard of before. Over the moon, as they have put their lost weight back on and are now well over that weight (nearly 700g). They waste hardly any straw every single day. Can't recommend this variety enough. Thank you very much to Oxbow for providing such amazing quality for my 2 picky pigs - I will be ordering this variety for many years to come! PLEASE NOTE - this review (although glowing!) is not sponsored at all - honest review of personal experience.

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.

As good as any bought in the pet shop, although more expensive, but then the pet shop had none and this was delivered to the door.