Is wagg bad?

[aj82]

I wondered if u should stop feeding wagg to bobbie. He gets Timothy hay and veggies but his dry food is wagg. I heard muesli mix is bad and pellets are better. What is the best food? Thank you x x

 

[Watermelons]

I wouldn't feed it.
The pellet portion of their diet should be just that... Just Pellets.
Wagg looks like it has a lot of junk in it. Low fiber as well.
If you have an adult house rabbit, try looking for a Timothy based pellet (Just pellets no mixed whole grains). With a protein of 14% or lower, and calcium under 1%.

 

[aj82]

Super I will do that. He is about 4 months old so don't know if that means he is a baby or not. X

 

[Watermelons]

6 months is usually the Baby/adult line for normal sized bunnies (ie not a Flemmie or other large breed)
Younger then 6 months an alfalfa based pellet or hay gives them a bit extra protein/calcium to grow. But those are things adult house bunnies should avoid.

 

[Bindi]

All in one pellets are generally better because the rabbit can't selectively feed the bits it wants to eat, but also I think to a degree the muesli mixes are created to look nice to us- all different coloured pieces of stuff so we think that's a nice looking variety mix. Some of those bits, when looked at closely, aren't nutritionally great for rabbits, like maize kernels and bits of sugary fruit.

I used to use Burgess Suparabbit but my previous bunny Oren used to get tummy troubles from it (I've heard of this happening occasionally in some rabbits, I think someone said it had a higher sugar content? Not sure...) so now mine are on Science Selective instead and he never had a problem on that.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Used to feed mine Wagg when it was the only thing I could get hold of easily and I would not feed them it now as muesli type food is not recommended for our bunnies. I was feeding them Burgess Lifelong which they´ve now discontinued and which they really like so have just ordered Excel Adult Tasty Nuggets which has I don´t think they´ll stop making and it has really good feedback from users.

 

[aj82]

Ok I will take a look at burgess and see of he goes for that one.