Burgess Excel Dried Forage Feeding Hay 1kg

Burgess Excel Dried Fresh Grass Timothy Feeding Hay – 1kg

This is barn-dried grass and nothing else, declared by Burgess as Timothy hay and grown on their own Yorkshire fields. Drying it under cover rather than leaving it to weather in the swath is what keeps the colour and holds the leaf on the stem, and leaf is where most of the feeding value in a grass hay sits.

Burgess declare beneficial fibre at 55% — the fraction that actually keeps a rabbit’s gut moving — with crude fibre at 29% and protein at only 8%. It is bulk forage rather than a feed with calories in it, which is exactly what it should be, given a rabbit needs to eat at least its own body size in hay every day.

Performance & Benefits

• 100% barn-dried grass, declared by Burgess as Timothy hay.
• Beneficial fibre at 55%, the fraction responsible for keeping the gut moving.
• Crude fibre 29% with protein at only 8%, so it fills a rabbit without fattening one.
• Long fibre demands the sideways chewing action that wears rabbit teeth evenly.
• Barn drying rather than field weathering preserves colour and leaf retention.
• Sodium declared at 0.00%.

Suitable For

• All rabbits — the species Burgess name on this pack.
• Rabbits whose diet needs shifting towards forage and away from nuggets.
• Stuffing hay racks, tunnels and cardboard boxes to spread feeding through the day.
• Mixing with Excel Forage & Feast hay bars where a rabbit needs persuading to eat hay.
• Burgess name no other species on this pack; guinea pigs can eat grass hay but still need their vitamin C from a food such as Burgess Excel Guinea Pig Nuggets.

Feeding

• Offer at least the rabbit’s own body size in hay or feeding grass every day.
• Keep it available constantly rather than as a measured meal.
• Burgess feed it alongside a small measured portion of Excel nuggets, some leafy greens and constant fresh water.
• Fill racks and stuff cardboard tubes with it so the rabbit has to work at getting it out.
• Shake a handful out before filling a rack, so any fines drop away rather than sitting at the bottom.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: 100% barn-dried grass (Timothy hay).
• Analytical constituents: beneficial fibre 55%, crude protein 8%, crude oils and fats 1.8%, crude fibre 29%, crude ash 7%, sodium 0.00%.
• Supplied as a 1kg pack.
• Burgess publish no dust content figure for this hay, so none is stated here.