doodle wrote:
All the feedstores around here carry the same kind of rabbit feed because it'smanufactured here. It's called Prime Quality and is a"grower" formula because the market is for breeders, notpets. There are a few other brands, but they have even higherprotein. This one is 16% minimum protein and 16-18%fiber.
Wish I could at least get Purina Rabbit Chow, but nobody has it.
There are the pet store brands like Kaytee, but it costs about 5 timesmore. I've thought about switching to Oxbow or something thatI would have to order online (and would cost like 8 times more), but Idon't know if it's worth it. What do you all think?
Some of you mentioned better ingredients - what are things to look for?
Doodle,
here are a list of the %'s on OxBow's ingredients..so if you wanted tosearch for something you have something to compare by. Besides justbeing comparable in ingredients i would make sure that if the pelletyou are buying, especially if they are a small independent company, arefresh. Not to the fault of the pellet, but some stores dont changetheir stock out until almost all is gone. So I would just besure tocheck that in addition.
Oxbow bunny basics/T
Crude Protein (min) 14%
Crude fat (min) 1.5%
Crude Fiber (min) 25%
Crude Fiber (max) 29%
Moisture (max) 10%
Calcium (min) 0.35%
Calcium (max) 0.85 %
Phosphorus (min) 0.25%
Salt (min) 0.50%
Salt (max) 1%
Vitamin A IU/kg 20,000
Vitamin D IU/kg 880
Vitamin E IU/kg 140
Copper mg/kg 20
oh oh and here are the ingredients list:
Timothy grass meal, soybean hulls, wheat middlings, soybean meal, canemolasses, salt, limestone, yeast culture, vitamin a acetate, vitamin d3supplement, vitamine supplement (tocopherol), vitamin csupplement (abscorbic acid), collodal silica, menadionesodiumbisulphate complex (vitamin K), riboflavin, niacin supplement, vitaminb12 supplement, pantothenic acid, biotin, thiamine, choline chloride,DL-methionine, pyrodoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, sodium selenite,magnesium sulfate, ferrous sulfate, cobalt carbonate, manganese oxide,zinc oxide, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, mineral oil, calciumiodate,potassium chloride.
i really appreciate it! ive been wondering what themajority out there really was when it came to pellets and i can now seethat it really is mixed up!! the reason im switching from the purinagreen bag to oxbow is because i always have to order ahead for thepurina at the feed store and if i switch to oxbow, it will be moreexpensive but i can just order it online. (i know, im horribly lazy!)thanks again!!
