Oxbow Animal Health Western Timothy Hay Small Pet Treat, 15 oz.

No more 50lb boxes. Ordered 40lb box with massive 71% increase in price since my last 50lb box order. Hay comes pressure packed into two 25lb bags. Useless. I'll pour the hay into my old 50lb box with liner. Hay pieces are very small and a lot of broken hay. No stalks of hay present just small hand fulls of mossy-like hay. Reviews by other buyers back what I write and give mostly 1 star reviews.

The quality of Oxbow hay (every kind) has deteriorated horribly since 2023. I have found foreign objects in various bags (bale twine, thick white cord, unidentifiable hard woody stalks, and dried insects). Some bags are just packaged dust, no strand longer than three inches. Others are full of moldy seed heads and damp hay, as if the hay was rolled and packaged while wet. Other bags are full of wads of brown dead pieces of hay, or huge straw like pieces that a camel would have trouble eating. Then there are the bags full of sharp needle-like stems and seed heads so long that they caused my bunny to choke badly. It is deeply distressing as this an essential for a rabbit and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find healthy hay. What is happening at Oxbow?

I used to love this product, for starters it is no longer 50lbs it's 40lbs now for the same price. It used to be long pieces of hay lightly packed. Now it is 2 super super tightly packed bags that are so hard to get the hay. I have gotten so many small pieces of hay in my fingers. It is also super super pieces maybe 4 to 5 inches. It looks like what the hay normally looks like when my bunnies are done with it. I am very very disappointed with this hay now. I will be looking for a new brand to buy if they dont change the current product. Huge disappointed

As of March 2026 I can say the quality has definitely dropped. I have made a few orders of 50lb and 40lb boxes on chewy and the hay is a lot shorter now then before. A lot more hay dust then there was before also. My pigs love this hay but if this doesn't change I will not continue to buy this product sadly.