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New excel!!
- Thread starter Bunnyx
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Hunnybunny2007
Warren Veteran
Does this mean it will have to be introduced gradually into their diet - like a new food?
FudgeMallow
Mama Doe
Really 
Mine are on Allen and paige but prefer excel and with a new higher fibre content i may try them on it!
Although Fudge did get runny poo on excel and she is great on A&P! Is it worth trying to sticking to what i knows best?
Mine are on Allen and paige but prefer excel and with a new higher fibre content i may try them on it!
Although Fudge did get runny poo on excel and she is great on A&P! Is it worth trying to sticking to what i knows best?
Bunnyx
Warren Scout
Umm...Im not quite sure if the actual recipie is different ill have to check as I still have some left of the other bag. Dont worry I will introduce it gradually. Well you could give it a try I spose...my two love there excel but I thought I was going to have to change as I was a bit worried that the fibre content was only 16% but now this new one contains 39% thats great! Ill let you know how my two get on with it! I went on the burgess website and it says theres a new website coming soon so it will probably show it on there then!
Hunnybunny2007
Warren Veteran
I was just wondering if you have to treat it like a new food, because I've got some of mine on A + P and some on Excel:?
Bunnyx
Warren Scout
I know Im a bit confused but I spose if you are someone like me who feeds thier rabbits on excel all the time wouldnt you just conmtinur feeding it the same way?:S It douesnt say anything different on the bag one sec ill post some pics of it. By the way it also says that its a bristish food is this good?
FudgeMallow
Mama Doe
Is that the adult nuggets?
Whats the junior one like? Same colour or different?
Whats the junior one like? Same colour or different?
tigerangel
Warren Veteran
....39% fibre?!?!?!? :shock::shock::shock: WOW!
Wonder if I should try gently moving them onto it though they do seem to be quite happy with their SS pellets and get plenty of hay already :?
Wonder if I should try gently moving them onto it
though they do seem to be quite happy with their SS pellets and get plenty of hay already :?
Bunnyx
Warren Scout
This excel was on offer today in pah £5 for a big bag!
Ive just checked the ingredients on the new bag and the old bag and they are different!!!
Old excel:
INGREDIENTS: Cereal grains, dried forages, products and by-products of legume seeds, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats, fructo-oligosaccharides and tocopherol-rich extracts of natural origin.
New excel:
INGREDIENTS: Grass, Oat bran, wheat, soya bean hulls, lucerne, peas, yeast, molasses, mint, soya oil, calcium carbonate, monocalcium, phosphate, Ligno-cellulose, fructo-oligosaccharides 0.25%, salt, vitamins and minerals, contains natural antioxidants.
So I guess I will have to introduce it gradually over a few days
By the way remember that the 39% fibre is only in the new bags so keep an eye out for them x
Ive just checked the ingredients on the new bag and the old bag and they are different!!!
Old excel:
INGREDIENTS: Cereal grains, dried forages, products and by-products of legume seeds, derivatives of vegetable origin, minerals, oils and fats, fructo-oligosaccharides and tocopherol-rich extracts of natural origin.
New excel:
INGREDIENTS: Grass, Oat bran, wheat, soya bean hulls, lucerne, peas, yeast, molasses, mint, soya oil, calcium carbonate, monocalcium, phosphate, Ligno-cellulose, fructo-oligosaccharides 0.25%, salt, vitamins and minerals, contains natural antioxidants.
So I guess I will have to introduce it gradually over a few days
By the way remember that the 39% fibre is only in the new bags so keep an eye out for them x
willowholly
Mama Doe
My buns have always had excel.THink will go buy a bag so i can mix it in with the old stuff just in case it causes a problem.Is it the same price?
Santa
Wise Old Thumper
Interesting - the SS guy at the RWA conference was telling me that SS had recently overtaken burgess as market leader - I wonder if that and the launch of the SS mature/junior range has prompted Burgess to revamp their product. Be interesting to see what it is like, how much it costs, how long its shelf life is and whether bunnies seem to like it
Bunnyx
Warren Scout
Interesting - the SS guy at the RWA conference was telling me that SS had recently overtaken burgess as market leader - I wonder if that and the launch of the SS mature/junior range has prompted Burgess to revamp their product. Be interesting to see what it is like, how much it costs, how long its shelf life is and whether bunnies seem to like it
Oh yeh! I notcied the other day that SS had food for junior and mature bunnies yes it will be interesting to see I will let you know what my two buns think of it and yes it is the same price as I said it was on offer today in pah which why I thought oooo Ill grab that and when I saw the 39% I couldnt belive my eyes :lol: Anyway on the burgess website www.burgesspetcare.co.uk it says there will be a new website launching in April so maybe they will show all thier new things then!! I will be checking x x
tigerangel
Warren Veteran
Isn't molasses a form (/byproduct) of sugar? :shock: or am I mis-educated? :lol:
willowholly
Mama Doe
There seems to be alot of mention of calcium in it,I hope it will be ok for B on her low calcium diet.Think I will email Burgess.
willowholly
Mama Doe
Sent an email to Burgess but not heard yet.Our pets at home has not got it in yet.
Mackers
Wise Old Thumper
Just picked up a bag of this new Excel from our P@H. The nutritional analysis states 'Beneficial Fibre 39%' and then 'Crude Fibre 19%'. It goes on to explain how manufacturers are only required to list the crude fibre on their food but that crude fibre isn't a measure of the total beneficial fibre content. I think I may send an email to the Science Selective peeps to find out what the beneficial fibre content is of their pellets.
Not sure if we're being 'had' here. I'd like to think that the 39% fibre is a new thing -fantastic if it is. But until we know what the beneficial fibre content of SS pellets is, how do we know that the new Excel pellets are any better than SS, given the crude fibre content is 19% on both the new Excel and SS pellets? Mind you, the first ingredient on the new Excel pellets is 'grass' which can only be a good thing.
Not sure if we're being 'had' here. I'd like to think that the 39% fibre is a new thing -fantastic if it is. But until we know what the beneficial fibre content of SS pellets is, how do we know that the new Excel pellets are any better than SS, given the crude fibre content is 19% on both the new Excel and SS pellets? Mind you, the first ingredient on the new Excel pellets is 'grass' which can only be a good thing.
