Burgess Excel Junior and Dwarf Nuggets with Mint – 1.5kg

Burgess Excel Junior & Dwarf Rabbit Nuggets with Mint – 1.5kg

A higher-specification nugget for growing rabbits and for the small breeds that never stop being small: crude protein at 16% against 12% in the adult recipe, and crude fat at 4% against 3%. Burgess put predicted energy at 2.3 kcal per gram and list it as suitable from a week old.

Grass meal leads the composition, with dried mint declared at 1% and short chain fructo-oligosaccharides at 0.3% as a prebiotic. Beneficial fibre is 36%, lower than the adult nugget manages — that is the trade-off for the extra protein a growing rabbit needs to build on.

Performance & Benefits

• Crude protein 16%, four points above the adult recipe, aimed at growth.
• Beneficial fibre 36%, with crude fibre at 17%.
• Dried mint at 1%, which is what makes it palatable to a fussy young rabbit.
• Prebiotic FOS at 0.3%, marginally above the adult nugget’s 0.25%.
• Predicted energy 2.3 kcal per gram.
• Single nugget format, so a rabbit cannot pick out the parts it prefers.

Suitable For

• Junior rabbits from a week old, through weaning and growth to twelve months.
• Dwarf breeds at any age, which stay on this recipe rather than moving to the adult one.
• Rabbits needing condition put back on after illness, on veterinary advice.
• Households switching a young rabbit off a muesli mix.
• A standard-sized adult rabbit does not need 16% protein — Burgess Excel Adult Rabbit Nuggets with Mint is the right recipe once growth has finished.

Feeding

• Feed a small measured portion alongside hay or grass, which should make up the majority of the diet and be available at all times.
• Add a small handful of leafy greens daily.
• Constant access to fresh clean water.
• Change over from a previous food gradually, across about a week.
• Burgess give their guidance as a five-step feeding plan rather than a grams-per-day table, so no fixed daily weight is quoted here.

Composition & Analysis

• Composition: grass meal, wholegrain wheat, soya bean hulls, wheat feed, oatfeed, soya bean meal feed dehulled, yeast (brewer’s yeast and grains), dried lucerne, dried mint (1%), soya oil, calcium carbonate, monocalcium phosphate, salt, dicalcium phosphate, short chain fructo-oligosaccharides (prebiotic FOS 0.3%), lignocellulose.
• Analytical constituents: beneficial fibre 36%, crude protein 16%, crude fat 4%, crude fibre 17%, crude ash 7.5%, calcium 0.8%, phosphorus 0.5%, sodium 0.2%.
• Predicted energy 2.3 kcal per gram.
• Burgess state the soya ingredients are produced from genetically modified soya.
• Also sold in 3kg and 10kg.