Food brandSun Seed Vita Plus Adult Rabbit Formula

[ilovemylittleman]

Does anyone use Sun Seed Vita Plus Adult Rabbit food?

Label says………….. What do you guys think?

 

Ingredients: Dehydrated Timothy Meal, Soybean Hulls, Dehulled Soybean Meal, Ground Corn, Yeast Culture, Cane Molasses, Ground Corn Cob, Wheat Middlings, Chopped Timothy Hay, Ground Flax Seed, Dehydrated Banana, Dehydrated Carrots, Dehydrated Papaya, Calcium Carbonate, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Dehydrated Alfalfa Meal, Feeding Oatmeal, Ground Wheat, Salt, Spirulina, Vegetable Oil, Whey, Ground Barley, Papaya Powder, Dehydrated Parsley, Choline Chloride, Magnesium Oxide, Potassium Sulfate, Magnesium Sulfate, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Riboflavin Supplement, Calcium Pantothenate, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Dicalcium Phosphate, L-Lysine, Potassium Iodide, Biotin, Folic Acid, Thiamine Mononitrate, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate (Source of Vitamin C), Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Methionine Complex, Manganese Methionine Complex, Copper Lysine Complex, Cobalt Sulfate, Cobalt Glucoheptonate, Dehulled Ground Sunflower Seed, Kelp Meal, Grape Seed Pomace, Wheat Germ Meal, DL-Methionine, Dried Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Fermentation Product, Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Niger Fermentation Product, Dried Aspergillus Oryzae Fermentation Product, Dried Trichoderma Viride Fermentation Product, Amylase, Protease, Cellulase, Betaglucanase, Lactase, Beta Carotene, Sodium Selenite, Color Added.

Guaranteed Analysis %:

Crude Fiber  35  Crude Protein  12  Crude Fat  1.5

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

OK I’m hoping you copied and pasted that and didn’t type that all out !! hehe

I’m a bit concerned over the corn cobs, flax seed, sunflower seed, ALSO I looked on a few sites and I cannot find a calcium content which to me is bad. It should be less then one percent and if they don’t list it it probably isn’t.

I’m not saying these will hurt your bun if you feed out the rest of the bag, but I think overall they sound junky I buy just plain old (boring I know!) timothy based pellets with no colored bits, dehydrated bits or seeds in them-and I know it’s boring looking but it’s healthiest

[Hedi]

It looks like what you have listed is what we refer to as junk food for rabbits. Its like feeding them McDonalds all the time which will make them fat. Most of us here feed Oxbow Bunny Basic T for adult rabbits. If you go to oxbow’s website: http://www.oxbowhay.com you can see if there is a local seller near you. Some vets and petstores sell them.

BTW..when you do switch to something else more nutritional you will need to take at least a week or two to switch the pellets over so you dont upset your buns stomach too much. So mix them up and feed both together and gradually phase out the old pellets to allow your buns tummy to adjust.

I am sure that there are others on here who cant get Oxbow but have a good pellet they feed. Hopefully someone else will chime in.

[Beka27]

I’ll ditto the others… Sun Seed is really not the best brand in general… another brand that is good that may be available at a local petstore is Zupreem: Nature’s Promise Premium Timothy Rabbit food. I use the Oxbow Bunny Basics T (I think the majority of us do) and now they are availale at some petstores (PetSmart included).

You want to stay away from foods that have nuts, seeds, corn, cereal pieces.

from the Oxbow site: http://www.oxbowanimalhealth.com/products/type/fortified_food;jsessionid=090D4E4E3A5A35DE11627F4EB54FA03C.vipa-03

You can tell that it has much more natural ingredients, altho I am no nutrition expert, I think there is less “processed stuff” in there.

Premium Ingredients

• Timothy Hay = Essential Fiber
• Soy Products = Fiber, Balanced Protein, Healthy Fat
• Wheat = Ideal Carbohydrate and Energy Source

Ingredients

Timothy Grass Meal, Soybean Hulls, Wheat Middlings, Soybean Meal, Cane Molasses, Salt, Limestone, Yeast Culture (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Vitamin A Acetate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement (tocopherol), Vitamin C Supplement (Ascorbic Acid), Colloidal Silica, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex (Vitamin K), Riboflavin, Niacin Supplement, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, Thiamine, Choline Chloride, DLMethionine, Pyrodoxine Hydrochloride, Folic Acid, Sodium Selenite, Magnesium Sulfate, Ferrous Sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, Manganese Oxide, Zinc Oxide, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Mineral Oil, Calcium Iodate, Potassium Chloride

Guaranteed Analysis

• Crude Protein min 14.00%
• Crude Fat min 1.50%
• Crude Fiber min 25.00%
• Crude Fiber max 29.00%
• Moisture max 10.00%
• Calcium min 0.35%
• Phosphorus min 0.25%
• Salt min 0.50%
• Salt max 1.00%
• Vitamin A IU/KG 20,000
• Vitamin D IU/KG 880
• Vitamin E IU/KG 140
• Copper mg/kg 20

 

 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

True Oxbow is hard to get if a local store doesn’t carry it-with the weight its expensive to ship. I buy bulk pellets that are locally produced but I live in Alberta and it’s a farm area so that’s not always possible.

A pellet I was using before is “Martins Little Friends” it’s an extruded (round pellet-diff process but good!) timothy based pellet with no other junk peices in it. My bunnies loved it and the one time I was able to get ahold of Oxbow (purchased it while in Vancouver) they all dug that expensive oxbow on the ground to get to the Martins’ pellets. They are just as nutritional, I think they just liked them as they are extruded?

[bunnytowne]

The store was out of Oxbow when I went it goes fast.   They were out of Zupreem too.   So I got the kaytee timmy pellets.   Cotton loves them. Ruby I think loves them too.

I was thinking to switching to Zupreem cause both stores carry it but the one down the street is sometimes out of it. Seems like everywhere I go someone is out of something.

[ilovemylittleman]

Hmph! I guess I’ll have to see if I can find something else. Thanks all for your input. 

[FluffyBunny]

I feed Kaytee Timothy Complete Pellets, they’re healthy and the bun likes them…http://www.kaytee.com/products/timothy-complete-rabbit.php

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