I’m not familiar with timothy hay, I had always assumed it didn’t have seed heads or flowers. I think it’s probably dandelions baled up with the hay. The buns love them and they’re totally fine to eat. The meadow hay I use has dandies and alfalfa bit thru it. Alfalfa is really sweet smelling, thick stalks with green leaves all over. The tim hay, from what I understand is more like long lengths or blades of grass.

Timothy hay is very uniform-looking, all long blades of grass. Depending where you get your hay, it can have dandelion flowers in it. You should be able to recognize them as such easily. Alfalfa is not grass-like in appearance, it is a pea plant. It has a thick stalk from which small flowers grow out of. In the dried state of hay, these flowers tend to get crushed up a bit. But you can tell it’s alfalfa by the thick stalks that branch out into the flower clusters. — Can you take an up-close photo of your hay and post it?

They don’t look like dandelions to me. I would be suspicious of the hay, it does not look like Timothy or alfalfa. Hmm, lets see what others say too.

I wonder if that is dried clover- I am not sure though.

that looks a lot like a new hay i’m trying. mine’s from sweet meadow, which i heard is a reliable source and it’s called “herbs & timothy.”

That looks like dried clover to me. I’ve had that in some hay I ordered from Farmer Dave before and he has hay especially with the clover in it.

That looks like dried red clover, no wonder your rabbits love it. It’s like candy to my rabbits also.
Clover is another member of the pea family so it is richer in protein than grasses are. It has a very aromatic scent.

I see some alfalfa, too, at the right, with the thick stem. All in all a mix.

Skibunny: i edit what I said, I went into my yard and looked at some clover. By the time the clover has the flowers it also has thick stems. So I might be mistaken about your hay having alfalfa in it.

I’ve only used packaged Timothy hay, and I’ve never had anything that looks like that at all. It’s very plain with tiny fuzzier stalks at the most.

Yes, that’s how red clover looks dried. It is extremely yummy for them, but clover is like alfalfa, high in calcium and protein, so only recommended for buns under 1 year. I give clover fresh as part of the daily greens, I should cut back a bit, too. If there is a lot of clover in your hay then I would buy a batch of pure timothy and mix the two hays together to use it that way.