Cheap But Good Hay?

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I get my guineapigs the 5 a day hay from the range and I think you can also get it from B&M! It's really good quality, bright green, smells sweet and also has flowers of dendelion and dried pumpkin, peppers, beetroot and Marigold which encourages foraging. It is only about £2.50 :love:
 
I feed this in my litter trays
(2016) 20kg of Timothy Hay | Timothy Hay | Hay Supplies UK
it lasts ages and is very good quality. I don't mind them weeing on this as it actually works out at £2 a kg which is cheap, yet I know they are still getting excellent quality Timothy. Very little dust at all too.

This goes in the corner tray
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I usually by ings which is just under £2 a kg, but they're current batch isn't great. Iv switched to the meadow and am happy with it, same price.

This goes in a rack to avoid being weed on and is probably everyone's favourite
Alfalfa King Timothy Hay for Small Animals
Works out about £4 a kg but can be dusty.

This goes under the hay rack and is similar to the hay above but at £5 a kg.
Bunny Fresh Grass Hay at zooplus

Fudge gets all her hay on a large flat tray or floor due to her arthritis.. So she wee's on all of it!


I feed the b&m hay as a treat and it goes down well. None of mine will eat pets at home hay and personally I find it to be poor quality with a not nice smell.
 
:agr: about the P@H hay, my girls don't like it at all :td: but it could have been a bad batch I got the one and only time I got it.
 
Adelle said:
I feed this in my litter trays
(2016) 20kg of Timothy Hay | Timothy Hay | Hay Supplies UK
it lasts ages and is very good quality. I don't mind them weeing on this as it actually works out at £2 a kg which is cheap, yet I know they are still getting excellent quality Timothy. Very little dust at all too.

This goes in the corner tray
Order Hay
I usually by ings which is just under £2 a kg, but they're current batch isn't great. Iv switched to the meadow and am happy with it, same price.

This goes in a rack to avoid being weed on and is probably everyone's favourite
Alfalfa King Timothy Hay for Small Animals
Works out about £4 a kg but can be dusty.

This goes under the hay rack and is similar to the hay above but at £5 a kg.
Bunny Fresh Grass Hay at zooplus

Fudge gets all her hay on a large flat tray or floor due to her arthritis.. So she wee's on all of it!


I feed the b&m hay as a treat and it goes down well. None of mine will eat pets at home hay and personally I find it to be poor quality with a not nice smell.
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Thanks for your reply! I filled up the hay rack on Sunday with the pets at home hay and it hasn't even been touched since
 
Crystella said:
:agr: about the P@H hay, my girls don't like it at all :td: but it could have been a bad batch I got the one and only time I got it.
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The pets at home hay ha
Crystella said:
:agr: about the P@H hay, my girls don't like it at all :td: but it could have been a bad batch I got the one and only time I got it.
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gus doesn't seem too interested in it
 
My piggies used to have the Pets At Home one (when Oreo had a cage mate) but I switched to the Burgess Marigold and Dandelion hay, which is much preferred by Oreo.

The Timothy hay from P@H was very expensive for the quality (yellow-brown colour in my area with small amounts of green). The other bedding hay (as I call it) was also poor quality and again didn't smell fresh or look it. I switched to Burgess after finding multiple stones and plenty of spiky weeds in the hay, which my piggies did not enjoy.

I chose the Burgess one as I liked the added forage element and it was a good price for the quality. I now order it off of Amazon for around £14 for 3kg/3 single kg packs. It lasts exactly 2 months with 2 pigs. The ones in P@H seem to be a lot older than the ones on Amazon, so P@H is a last resort for the hay.

Oreo has Oxbow hay as a treat but is extremely expensive (£5-£6 for 500g). The quality is amazing though. I am lucky that my local pet store stocks it along with Oxbow nuggets.
 
Little Ones said:
That's awful, in the hay I use to buy I found three dead mice on separate occasions. I remember one time I was on the phone freaking out to my mum because I just saw a squished clump and a claw, I thought my Guinea pigs foot had fallen off!:td:
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OMG!


I would have been completely traumatised at that! revolting!

That's even worse than when i put my hand into what i thought was a bag of raisins to find it wasnt raisins, but dates. I dropped the whole bag in horror! I was shaking! Heaven knows how i would manage a mouse in the hay:woot:
 
tabelmabel said:
OMG!


I would have been completely traumatised at that! revolting!

That's even worse than when i put my hand into what i thought was a bag of raisins to find it wasnt raisins, but dates. I dropped the whole bag in horror! I was shaking! Heaven knows how i would manage a mouse in the hay:woot:
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It was awful, I think what made it worse was that I didn't just find it in the bag, it was there in the cage, I thought one of my babies was dying from foot loss :eek:
Dates! Oh the horror :D:D
 
The blackbird's wing in my hay made it into the cage...really not nice!
 
CogGirl said:
We get the Morrisons Meadow Hay - it's £3 for 2 bags, and really 'nice' hay.
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My local Morrisons has been out of stock of this for ages (their pet section is tiny) but I finally got some today! Good sized pack, but still manageable in terms of walking home with it! Most importantly, it got approval from my girls :)
 
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