Nummy
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Hello all :wave:First of all Nummy is going through a bit of stasis... I think his fiber intake was too low or something.
I have to start by explaining my situation, Nummy has had a bladder stone. He passed it but endured pain and discomfort as you can imagine. I have since then been trying to get Nummy the best food I can get from a pet store for him. He was eating the "Martin" brand pellets for sometime before I noticed that it was all alfalfa meal. I thought maybe feeding that to him may have caused him the bladder stone. So of course I wanted to get him on a better pellet and avoid the stones occuring. I live about 1 1/2 hours from Nummy's vet who happens to sell Oxbow brand Pellets. Which I noticed were a timothy hay based pellet. It took a while to convert Nummy to the new feed but he eventually did the switch. My problem is this, I can't seem to find anyone that is local who sells Oxbow brand pellets. I have a pet value and a petsmart available to me and the choices are few. I stupidly bought Nummy some "Nutriphase" brand pellets only to notice for the last week I have been feeding him a alfalpha based pellets :headsmack. I am frustrated with how little of a choice there is for a healthy adult rabbit food. Well a week after eating this "Nutriphase" he started to show symptoms of early stasis. Even the vet noticed his less than normal sized poops at his last visit. The scary thing is that I just read the feed bag today don't ask me what I was thinking the day I bought that food... must have been having a bad day or something. Well I had to think fast when it comes to Nummy and his stasis so I made a fast trip to the store to buy him his favorite pellets..."Martin Brand" I figured it would quickly help to bring him out of stasis. This time I bought him the Less Active rabbit brand and noticed the first ingredient on the bag was timothy hay. Of course Nummy did indulge a little and I was glad he accepted the food.
Now this is my big question... is the Martin brand okay to feed to him? Does anyone have a suggestion for a good brand that I could get?? Any advice is welcome . I have added some pics below of the food bags and the nutritional information aswell.
That is the information for "Martin" which he was eating before but was eating the regular formula instead of "Less Active" which he has been eating the last couple of days because of the stasis. The following pics are of the food he was on that I think may have lead to his stasis.
As you can probably see there is nothing good in this food... I am slapping my head big time today.
I have to start by explaining my situation, Nummy has had a bladder stone. He passed it but endured pain and discomfort as you can imagine. I have since then been trying to get Nummy the best food I can get from a pet store for him. He was eating the "Martin" brand pellets for sometime before I noticed that it was all alfalfa meal. I thought maybe feeding that to him may have caused him the bladder stone. So of course I wanted to get him on a better pellet and avoid the stones occuring. I live about 1 1/2 hours from Nummy's vet who happens to sell Oxbow brand Pellets. Which I noticed were a timothy hay based pellet. It took a while to convert Nummy to the new feed but he eventually did the switch. My problem is this, I can't seem to find anyone that is local who sells Oxbow brand pellets. I have a pet value and a petsmart available to me and the choices are few. I stupidly bought Nummy some "Nutriphase" brand pellets only to notice for the last week I have been feeding him a alfalpha based pellets :headsmack. I am frustrated with how little of a choice there is for a healthy adult rabbit food. Well a week after eating this "Nutriphase" he started to show symptoms of early stasis. Even the vet noticed his less than normal sized poops at his last visit. The scary thing is that I just read the feed bag today don't ask me what I was thinking the day I bought that food... must have been having a bad day or something. Well I had to think fast when it comes to Nummy and his stasis so I made a fast trip to the store to buy him his favorite pellets..."Martin Brand" I figured it would quickly help to bring him out of stasis. This time I bought him the Less Active rabbit brand and noticed the first ingredient on the bag was timothy hay. Of course Nummy did indulge a little and I was glad he accepted the food.
Now this is my big question... is the Martin brand okay to feed to him? Does anyone have a suggestion for a good brand that I could get?? Any advice is welcome . I have added some pics below of the food bags and the nutritional information aswell.
That is the information for "Martin" which he was eating before but was eating the regular formula instead of "Less Active" which he has been eating the last couple of days because of the stasis. The following pics are of the food he was on that I think may have lead to his stasis.
As you can probably see there is nothing good in this food... I am slapping my head big time today.