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Hi All,
I’m new here, But I have owned many rabbits in the past a few years back, I had always fed them horrible pellets like peters and random pellets from stores but now I know how important the diet is and I want to get the best possible diet for my new bun buns.
I haven’t gotten my bunny yet, I will be picking her up when I get everything for her but I am planning on feeding Oxbow young rabbit pellets but right now they are a little to expensive so I picked up some Vetafarm rabbit pellets to try, I did notice they had Lucerne in them so I was thinking they would be fine up until she is 6 months and then swap to Oxbow Adult Rabbit pellets.
Anyway I do live in Australia so its super hard to find good quality pellets and the Vetafarm has less ingredients but the analysis is similar to Oxbow
Ingredients: fescue, lucerne, oat fibre.
Whole grains: wheat, soybean and oats
Vitamins: A, B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B9, B12, C, D3, E, H & K
Minerals Calcium, cobalt, copper, iodine, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus potassium, selenlum, sodim, sulphur & Zinc
Analysis:
Min Crude Protein: 13%
Min Fibre: 16%
Min Crude Fat: 3%
Max Salt (NaCl): 0.5%
If anyone knows any other great quality pellets and preferably cheaper too (but I am willing to pay more for good quality) for both young and adult rabbits in Australia and if there are places in South Australia that sell them feel free to mention!
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The food is ok, it does contain a few too many grains, which are usually fattening and bad for bunnies. The fiber, however, is very low. I would only feed it until you can get your hands on some oxbow, and make sure your bunny is eating lots of hay.
I hope AndHenry comments on this thread, as she lives in Australia and feeds oxbow, so hopefully she could give you some insight on where to purchase good food.
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Okay Thankyou for the reply’s,
The Oxbow around here costs close to $40+ a bag, I will defiantly be feeding her Oxbow but for the times where I just cant afford Oxbow I was wanting something to feed them until I can afford a new bag of Oxbow, not necessarily cheaper, but pellets that come in smaller proportions so it was be as expensive, as the Oxbow at my local pet store only comes in one size, I was a little wary of the fibre content as I know it should be higher.
I have only found 1 store that sells oxbow food products near me, another store occasionally sells the hay rolls but only Vetafarm as pellets, and we don’t have burgess in Australia
Thanks for the help again
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