Go to the Oxbow website and type in your zipcode in the top right hand corner. That will give you all the stores near you that sell oxbow stuff. Make sure you call the store in advance to make sure they still have what you want.

I get my OxBow at my vet. It is a bit more pricey but the pellets (maybe 13 dollars?) I bought at the beginning of August are just now running out – and they have a very nice zip lock in the bag.

Same with Hay – I buy several types of the Oxbow in the small bags – and mix them up for her. I think I pay 7.99 per bag (small) of Hay. But I am in Canada, so my pricing doesn’t make any sense to the States.

I don’t buy huge bags of hay – as I worry that she wouldn’t get through them before they got stale. I keep them in my kitchen pantry – cool, dark and dry.

Coco adjusted ( and now adores) her Oxbow pellets. She refused at first since I was weaning her off of an alfalfa based pellet. But now she gets all excited when she sees the bag coming. Also, I should add – she is a small bun – a bit over 4 pds, so she only gets about 1/8th of a cup of pellets a day. The rest she eats in veggies and hay.

some PetSmarts and other stores have been carrying Oxbow products. that’s what i use. i actually just went there today and bought hay, pellets and litter (i love how everything runs out all at once…) and the guy working there said, “what kinda pets do you have?”

“rabbits.”

“oh WOW! how many do you have?” he is clearly thinking i have, like, 10 or something with all the stuff i was buying…

“two…”

*shocked silence*

i used to buy the pellets and hay at the vet but they stopped carrying it… def. call around. even if it’s at a vet you don’t use, you can go there and just buy the stuff…

American Pet Diner is also a good brand as well. You can also go to their site and look up retail locations.

Whichever pellet you decide on, be sure not to throw away your old pellet so you can mix it with the new as you gradually wean him off the old. Oxbow provides directions on how to do with on their package. Basically you add more new pellet, less old pellet over a months time.

why do you believe he’s not ready for veggies? where have you heard/read that? i would def. check out shipping costs. it is more convenient to be able to drive to the store to buy, but if it’s much cheaper to ship…

that could have been from many different reasons, i believe coccidia can manifest itself by diarrhea and that has nothing to do with veggies at all. it is true that you need to start slooooooowly, introducing basic veggies like green leaf lettuce and parsley in small amounts, but i think you can go ahead and start already. it’s generally recommended that you start at 12 weeks, altho i think most buns can handle them at 8 weeks with little to no issue.

now as far as carrot, that has to be very strictly limited due to the high sugar content. no more than a couple slivers a few times a week… if that. if you have any more questions regarding diet, please ask.

as far as that link… most of the info is correct, but i think you’ll find more consistent info in the BB diet section or on the HRS diet page: http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/diet.html 

edited again: this is another great article… http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/diet.html

try to start giving him some of the same veggies you feed the new bunny, one at a time and in smaller amounts. watch the poop and his behavior. i think you’ll find that he loves them…

Bunnies are disbelieving snots, sometimes, and will refuse what you offer them, at first. Keep leaving it for them, and after 3 refusals, they’ll probably go for it like it’s the best thing they’ve ever tasted!

I, personally, don’t go out of my way for any particular brand. I make sure the pellets are Timothy-based, and they are a consistent brand, but since my local petstores don’t carry Oxbow, I go with the Timothy-pellets brand that they do carry. Veggies are the basis of their diet, not pellets.

As far as hay goes, I go to feed stores. I make sure it’s fresh. And it is DIRT CHEAP, compared to pet store hay!

like lightchick said, keep offering it. you will possibly have to try over a dozen things to get a good selection of stuff they will like.

another thing i just thought of… are you feeding the veggies separately from the pellets? so in the morning if you feed pellets at night, or vice verse?

well, you might want to feed veggies in the morning before feeding pellets, maybe by an hour or so to give them time to explore the veggies. once the pellets get limited (at 7 months for Ollie and now for Lila), you’ll find they might eat more hay and veggies which is of course the basis of the diet. even if the vet says Lila is underweight, i would not give her unlimited pellets, you need to be aware of how much she’s eating and free pellets will most likely take away from hay eating which is the most important thing.

petfooddirect.com sells Oxbow pellets and hay as well as several other brands of rabbit food.  Their shipping charges are not as high as Oxbow, and once you order from them and get on their newsletter list, they will email you a discount coupon frequentlly (once a week or so).  The discounts range from 13% off to 22% off. 

Drsfostersmith.com also has reasonable shipping on Oxbow pellets and hay – that’s where I order most of my bunny supplies so I don’t have to support the pet stores!

I order my bunny supplies from Drs Foster and Smith.  You have to have a large enough order to make shipping worth while- but that is never a problem at my house.  The last time I ordered I bought two 10lb of the Oxbow T pellets and they stayed fresh without a problem.  I use a snapware jar to hold the pellets with a scoop so that twice a day I am not fussing with a sealable bag- and I reseal the bag after I fill the pellet jar.  I only have 1 rabbit but did not find 20 lbs of food to be too much as it was in 2 different bags and it stays fresh- and is not any different than being on a shelf at a store really.

I DO like that Drs F & S charges flat rate shipping based on your order amount.  We have a saltwater fish tank and we order 5lb buckets of salt and other supplies.  So if you are ordering heavy things- 20 lbs of bunny food total, 5lb buckets of salt- shipping is extremely reasonable.

But with that being said- I do feel that it is important to support the local pet stores IF they deserve the support and carry the products you need.  My local petstore that I buy all my cat food, cat litter, and dog food from does not carry Oxbow- they have other stores in their small chain that does- but they do not.  And I have learned from experience- not to special order somethng if you need it soon- their system is not as efficient as it could be.  PLUS- they have a bunny cage set up in store with a adoptable spayed/neutered bunny from the Humane Society- how cool is that? They support adoption and also have 2 cat cages set up for humane society cats.  They do not sell any animals (other than hermit crabs and mice).

Yeah – there are only a couple of pet stores in my town and neither of the “local” ones support adoption in anyway. The one always has rabbits in stock, and when they aren’t selling they slash the prices to as low as $10 a rabbit to make room for the next batch – which can only encourage impulse rabbit purchases as a “cheap and easy” pet. The Petco does have a sign that encourages people to adopt rabbits before considering purchasing theirs, and I do shop there for some of my supplies like litter, just not the hay and pellets. But yes – if I had a local store that carried the supplies I needed and encouraged adoption like yours, I would definitely want to support them too!