Viking Farmer Oat Hay for Rabbits & Small Pets, 5-lb box

I received a good batch of oat hay. Both my bunnies enjoyed it. There were plenty of their favorite flowering tops in there. I will continue to give them this as a treat hay as their main is 1st cut timothy.

I am allergic to both timothy and orchard hay, and thought we'd found a solution with Oxbow oat hay, but our guinea pigs hated it and refused to eat it - it was all yellow and straw-like. Thank goodness for The Viking Farmer hay!!!! It's much more green and tender, and they LOVE it! I'm keeping a close eye to make sure the seed heads aren't too high calorie for them (they go for those right away), but I can genuinely say that this hay has made all the difference - a solution for both me and them.

This used to be such good hay and it’s the only brand my rabbits with enthusiastically eat but their quality has taken a nose dive in the past few months. This is the third box I’ve gotten that is about 50% yellow/brown in color and about 20% of the box is dusty bits that are too small for a rabbit to chew. This is not living up to its price tag anymore and I’m using it mostly for the litter box.

My rabbits were not fans of this hay. I have a bonded pair and a single, making three in total aging 4, 8, and 12 respectively. I have offered it to them several times and while they initially seem interested in the new option, they refuse to eat it even after several weeks of continuous introduction. The texture is very straw-like, being hard and almost hallow in some strands with fiber-like puffs on the end. It also did not have the scent that I'm used to from opening a box of hay, which is generally a very grassy-natural auroma. It had almost no scent at all. It was, however, packed very well. My rabbits might just be picky, but this product wasn't for us.