Which food brand is best?

[1357rabbitlover]

I used to feed my bunnies on Burgess excel rabbit nuggets, then in the pet shop i noticed another good brand of bunny food for £2.99 cheaper called Wagg optimum rabbit nuggets, and i have started feeding my bunnies it, i slowly swapped the food over for about 9 days. I know it's lower in fibre than excel but my bunnies only get pellets every other day and only in small handfuls, so would it actually make a difference? Or should i swap back to excel?

Nutritional values of Wagg - Protein 13.5%, Fat Content 4.5%, Crude Fibre 17%, Crude Ash 7%, Calcium 0.7%, Phosphorous 0.5%.

Burgess Excel - Crude Fibre 19% Protein 13% Ash5.5% Calcium 0.9% Phosphorous 0.51%

 

[silversky2668]

I'm not from the UK, but I sometimes go on a UK rabbit forum and I've read many posts there that say Wagg Optimum isn't great (it's okay but there are better pellets) and to go for either Excel or Alan and Page Natural

 

[jamesedwardwaller]

1357rabbitlover wrote:

I used to feed my bunnies on Burgess excel rabbit nuggets, then in the pet shop i noticed another good brand of bunny food for £2.99 cheaper called Wagg optimum rabbit nuggets, and i have started feeding my bunnies it, i slowly swapped the food over for about 9 days. I know it's lower in fibre than excel but my bunnies only get pellets every other day and only in small handfuls, so would it actually make a difference? Or should i swap back to excel?

Nutritional values of Wagg - Protein 13.5%, Fat Content 4.5%, Crude Fibre 17%, Crude Ash 7%, Calcium 0.7%, Phosphorous 0.5%. i have not even looked at a label for quite some time,--i use purina rabbit chow complete-only a hand full per day--like a treat,,---what you need to know is the rabbit diet must be high in NON-digestable fiber-i.e.(timothy/orchard grasses)-this keeps the teeth and gi-tract happy,,---too little non digestable fiber in the diet will have negative impact on the rabbits entire system--remember it is strictly a herbivore-(grass eater)--you are in the united kindom-so i would consider myxi as a possibility and get the required vaccinations every 6mo. if there is an outbreak--it is a very ugly disease which governments have modified for maximum killing--a website in the u.k is rabbits united -for myxi information,,--in australia vacines are forbidden,,--good luck and god bless--save our buns--,sincerely james waller

Burgess Excel - Crude Fibre 19% Protein 13% Ash5.5% Calcium 0.9% Phosphorous 0.51%

 

[1357rabbitlover]

Yes i know all that, but which one do you think is best James waller?

 

[SneakyDragon]

Purely looking at the two listed, I would go with Burgess Excel due to the higher fiber and lower protein.

Dana Krempels, a renowned rabbit researcher, recommends the following:

• * at least 22% crude fiber
  * no more than approximately 14% protein
  * about 1% fat
  * about 1.0% calcium.

http://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Pellets#Pellets