4boipigs
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
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- Joined
- Feb 12, 2021
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- 932
I thought I made a topic like this, can't find it. Probably complained somewhere else.
For a while now, I've been getting irritated w/ Oxbow. I buy it because I get a discount where I work and I get points. Since they switched to the 90oz bags and started to pack it tighter, it's been a struggle. The quality is hit or miss. The hay in these bags is hard to get out, sometimes fresh, sometimes pointy, sometimes choppy and dusty, sometimes not. I bought 2 big bags during black friday at work, and both are full of dust, brown/green pieces, and they have the little sticky parts (from the flower maybe?) embedded in my fleece. It's making a huge mess and the boys are eating less of it and I'm having to throw away huge piles when I clean their kitchen every couple of days.
The only success I have is with the smaller bags, but with 4 boars, it's costly to keep buying small bags. Once I bought a huge box of Oxbow hay, but the quality was just like the 90oz bags.
I love Oxbow, but I'm done. So I ordered Fresh Pet Select today and we'll see how it goes. I will definitely recommend Oxbow for pellets, their treats, toys, etc but this hay shouldn't be such a hassle!
My store does sell other brands, but I consider them all inferior and don't really want to pay pet store prices for something my children may not like. I was trying to avoid ordering hay online for as long as I could, but this is the only way. The local feed store didn't even know what timothy hay was when I asked, so that's not an option.
For a while now, I've been getting irritated w/ Oxbow. I buy it because I get a discount where I work and I get points. Since they switched to the 90oz bags and started to pack it tighter, it's been a struggle. The quality is hit or miss. The hay in these bags is hard to get out, sometimes fresh, sometimes pointy, sometimes choppy and dusty, sometimes not. I bought 2 big bags during black friday at work, and both are full of dust, brown/green pieces, and they have the little sticky parts (from the flower maybe?) embedded in my fleece. It's making a huge mess and the boys are eating less of it and I'm having to throw away huge piles when I clean their kitchen every couple of days.
The only success I have is with the smaller bags, but with 4 boars, it's costly to keep buying small bags. Once I bought a huge box of Oxbow hay, but the quality was just like the 90oz bags.
I love Oxbow, but I'm done. So I ordered Fresh Pet Select today and we'll see how it goes. I will definitely recommend Oxbow for pellets, their treats, toys, etc but this hay shouldn't be such a hassle!
My store does sell other brands, but I consider them all inferior and don't really want to pay pet store prices for something my children may not like. I was trying to avoid ordering hay online for as long as I could, but this is the only way. The local feed store didn't even know what timothy hay was when I asked, so that's not an option.