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Question for people who buy Pets at Home hay
- Thread starter susie bun
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Lspacehopper
Wise Old Thumper
In my experience the hay was hit and miss for quality. Have you any farms round you that you can buy a nice lush bale from? You could then buy some of the fancier hays for additional
Pebblesetc
Mama Doe
I find that a bag of their timothy hay only lasts a week, Buckley is a single 3 month old lionhead.
It gets a bit short towards the bottom of the bag as well.
The quality is very inconsistent. One week it'll be too green, the next there will be no green in it at all. And it's SO EXPENSIVE.
Their meadow hay isn't bad. Generally a good balance of green and brown (Buckley likes it brown and stalky) and it smells quite nice.
The woodlands hay (which is petsathome putting on their friendly face) is about a pound more and has carrot and apple bits in it and smells lurrrrverrrrlyyyyy.
The hay cookies smell AMAZING and Buckley loves them but because they're so heavily compressed they don't have the long long pieces of hay that bunnies so dearly love. Also, they're really messy. Bunny teeth + hay cookie is similar to sand paper + mdf. Muchos dust.
I only get their hay because OH is paranoid about hay from a farm having mites... I would rather get farm hay because it's cheaper and you know it hasn't been sat in the plastic for months on end potentially festering...
It gets a bit short towards the bottom of the bag as well.
The quality is very inconsistent. One week it'll be too green, the next there will be no green in it at all. And it's SO EXPENSIVE.
Their meadow hay isn't bad. Generally a good balance of green and brown (Buckley likes it brown and stalky) and it smells quite nice.
The woodlands hay (which is petsathome putting on their friendly face) is about a pound more and has carrot and apple bits in it and smells lurrrrverrrrlyyyyy.
The hay cookies smell AMAZING and Buckley loves them but because they're so heavily compressed they don't have the long long pieces of hay that bunnies so dearly love. Also, they're really
messy. Bunny teeth + hay cookie is similar to sand paper + mdf. Muchos dust.I only get their hay because OH is paranoid about hay from a farm having mites... I would rather get farm hay because it's cheaper and you know it hasn't been sat in the plastic for months on end potentially festering...
susie bun
Wise Old Thumper
I usually buy from The Hay Experts (used to get small bags of different hays from Animal Magic, but they don't do them now). I think Spenser likes variety, but it's difficult to tell what he really likes. One day he'll favour one type, then it will be something else. Actually he really loves Morrison's straw, but it's got no nutritional value. He's getting to the end of bags of green oat and Western Timothy hay. I was thinking of buying one hay online and another locally to save postage as I'll soon not be working for a while.
Have you tried Morrisons hay? Bunsk and Belle love it
susie bun
Wise Old Thumper
Yes, I buy that for his basin, and I notice he often noms it. He seems to relish peed on hay as a particular delicacy. :mrgreen::lol:
Pebblesetc
Mama Doe
Poop and pee are the salt and pepper of bunny mealtimes!
:lol:
On the rare occasion I still buy hay from P@H I get this : http://www.petsathome.com/shop/timothy-hay-1.8kg-by-alfalfa-king-36642
which I think is good quality, probably because its not P@H's own brand. I also get the hay cookies.
which I think is good quality, probably because its not P@H's own brand. I also get the hay cookies.
Georgeypudding
Wise Old Thumper
I brought some excel barn dried grass from P@H yesterday, it smells like tea :lol: but the buns loooove it!
