What type of oxbow pellets?

[Fen]

Hello!

I’ve been searching around and researching what type of pellets is best, and it seems that most people recommend Oxbow. However, when i looked onto their website to check it out for myself, i noticed there are quite a few varieties such as Garden Select, Organic Bounty, Essentials, and Simple Harvest. When i browsed some threads on here everyone was just recommending Oxbow, but not saying what type.

I tried to look at the ingredients of most of them but unfortunately the picture on a few was too small and blurry for me, but i did catch that Essentials has cane molasses.

Curious what your thoughts are and what type of Oxbow pellets you use? What’s best?

[Asriel and Bombur]

Most people use Essentials, but my boys really love the Garden Select. There’s really not a huge difference between each of them, just that Essentials has more protein and fiber.

[LittlePuffyTail]

I use the Adult Essentials.

[JLH]

I also use the Adult Essentials, it’s the best one if you don’t want a chubby bunny.

[Q8bunny]

The Organic ones have the best ingredients and formulation of the Oxbow line, imo.

[Doodler]

That is so frustrating when the pictures are blurry like that. I don’t understand the point of even putting them up if you can’t read it.

If you go to Oxbow’s website you can see the ingredients and analysis of them. I would say the decision mainly depends on what you feel about soy and molasses and whether organic is something you prefer.

The main ingredients in Organic Bounty is Organic Grass Hay, Organic Canola Meal, Organic Wheat Straw, Organic Barley, Organic Sunflower Meal and Organic Flaxseed. Minimum Protein is 12%, Fat 2.5%, Fiber Min 23% Max 25%

The main ingredients in Garden Select is Timothy Grass, Oat Grass, Orchard Grass, Oat Hulls, Canola Meal, Whole Barley, Whole Yellow Pea and Tomato Pumace. Flaxseed is also in there. Minimum Protein is 12%, Fat 2.5%, Fiber Min 22% Max 26%

The main ingredients in Essentials is Timothy Grass Meal, Soybean Hulls, Soybean Meal, Cane Molasses and Wheat Middlings. Minimum Protein is 14%, Fat 2%, Fiber Min 25% Max 29%

The main ingredients in Simply Harvest is Timothy Grass Meal, Soybean Hulls, Canola Meal, Sunflower Meal, Steam Rolled Oat Groats, Cane Molasses and Sunflower oil. Minimum Protein is 12%, Fat 2%, Fiber Min 22% Max 26%

As you can see the analysis is pretty comparable except that the Essentials has more protein and fiber.

I personally combine Garden Select with Supreme (my bunnies can’t get enough of the Supreme or I would cut that out completely). My buck was raised on Sherwood but then he started to not eat it very well. My vet recommended Oxbow and I tried Essentials first. They didn’t care for it much at all so I then tried Garden Select and they like it, just not as much as the Supreme. I personally like the ingredients of the Organic and Garden Select the best.

[Azerane]

Any of the four is a decent choice. I feed essentials but would probably feed Garden Select if it was more readily available to me.

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