16/10/2024
Don't mistake the word 'natural' for meaning suitable. Natural ingredients may include vegetables like peas, fruit and even seeds or grains. But these aren't species suitable for your rabbits.
Take Rosewood products for example! Rosewood create natural products for small animals, but each small animal has a different set of nutritional needs and ingredients they require. Hamsters need seeds, rabbits don't for example.
A very common purchase we see people making is the 'dandelion salad' or natures salad, which is available to buy from many stores and different suppliers (like Rosewood, simply nibbles, etc). These are not species suitable for rabbits, despite them being "natural".
When we talk about feeding your rabbit forage, we mean whole plants, herbs and leaves, not grains, corn, veg and seeds.
Check out the ingredients of the natures salad: ❌️
Oat flakes, wheat flakes, marigold (8.7%), parsley, red beet, alfalfa, nettle (4.1%), pea flakes, carrots, dandelion (3.64%), plantain, wheat, burst wheat, burst maize, edible leaves, cornflowers, rose petals, peppermint (2.25%), maize flakes, melissa, red clover.
And then compare to our favourite in the Rosewood range for rabbits, Fields of Gold: ✅️
Marigold (Calendula) (30%), Maize Leaves (20%), Chamomile (10%), Sweet Vernal Grass (10%), Raspberry Leaves (10%), Oat Herb (10%), Fennel (5%), Lovage (5%)
See the difference? As rabbit care givers you have to get savvy with reading ingredient lists and understanding what is suitable for rabbits versus rodents. Or, you could just let us do the hard work for you and follow the One Hop Shop - where every product sold is vetted by us and 100% species suitable for rabbits.
