Oxbow Western Timothy Hay, 2.55 kg

Perfect bedding or food for your small animal

This hay is one of the best we have ever had for our guinea piggies. Its a vibrant green colour, sweet smelling and long stemmed. Our boars just snaffle it up. It is on the expensive side but we have ordered a few bags now and there is barely any dust left at the bottom of the bag. You know its great hay when they are begging for treats and this is enough to stop them 😘

First time I’ve been impressed in a while. We had to purchase other hay options for a bit, including the Orchard Grass hay which depleted in green colour & quality. This has just arrived as it’s super green! Very happy, my guinea pigs can’t eat it fast enough Must be careful if you have hay fever as it sets it off but really the only drawback

I have adopted two adorable but fussy guinea pigs and seeing the rave reviews purchased two bags.Guess my piggies really are picky as they didn't like it at all,so it has ended up as very expensive bedding.The hay looks lovely,with lots of big strands,but is an odd texture -almost like its freeze dried? I also noticed that the bottom of the bag is full of dusty broken bits,which make my wee girls sneeze,even if used in bedding.Disappointed,but keeping on searching for the perfect gourmet hay for them.

I’ve been really pleased with the Oxbow Western Timothy Hay — it smells fresh, has long green strands, and my rabbit absolutely loves it. It keeps him busy chewing and supports his digestion well. The only downside is that the bag can be a bit pricey and sometimes has some dust at the bottom, but the overall quality makes it worth it for my bunny’s health.

I bought this timothy hay for my two guinea pigs. I have tried a variety of different hays previously- the £1.50 bag from home bargains, the Pets at Home brand, the highly-rated Excel timothy hay and finally this one, the Oxbow. I would just like to say that this hay is amazing and by far the best of all my previous tests. It has a fresh, lovely smell, the hay is the greenest I have ever seen (by comparison the excel hay is nearly brown!) and my guinea pigs, after a small and fussy adjustment period, now literally jump for joy when they hear the bag rustling. My guinea pigs go through a bag of 1.1kg in around 10-14 days, so for cost effectiveness I've now decided to buy on subscription the 4kg bag! There are criticisms, however. The main two criticisms are: 1. THE PRICE. Ye Gods, I know you get what you pay for, but I'm a student and this amazing hay (which I'm certain is the best for my piggies) is really emptying out my pockets. Somebody should start a petition for a price drop or something. 2. THE BOTTOM OF THE BAG. The last 8th/10th of the bag is always just very fine, very tiny strands of less than 2cms, completely inedible to my guineas. For the price I would like to see the full bag loaded with long strands and nothing but long strands. To summarize, if you love your animals and you want the best hay around for them, Oxbow is easily the best supplier on the market!

Initially when I first started ordering this I would chose the 1.1kg size & the quality of the hay was invariably very good. However, in order to be more economical, I decided to start ordering the larger sizes of 2.55kg or larger, assuming that it would just be a larger bag of the same soft, green hay. For some reason, the hay in the larger bags is far more coarse & straw-like & my guinea pigs tend to pick out the few finer bits & leave the coarser stuff which makes it rather wasteful. Also, I have found that even the quality within the 2.55kg bags can vary with the last bag I had being full of brown, not very appealing hay, which is even worse than the coarse, straw-like stuff! I am hence going to stick with the smaller bags - they may prove more expensive in the long-run but they seem to contain the finer quality hay.

As good as any bought in the pet shop, although more expensive, but then the pet shop had none and this was delivered to the door.