With the perfect balance of enriching variety and delicious nutrition, Forage Wise is made to engage your pet's foraging instincts with a fun blend of shapes, colors, textures, and flavors.
Unlike other mixes that can lead to selective feeding of ingredients lacking in essential nutrients, every piece of our Variety Smart Recipe is formulated to provide essential nutrition.
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We switched to these for pellets about a month ago and they have been a great addition to my bunnies diet! He is very sensitive and often other food gives him digestive issues, but ever since switching there has been little to no issues in that area!
My pigs go nuts for it!
I have 5 guinea pigs and all of them went nuts over this new mix. I have used Oxbow pellets for their entire life, they normally ate the Garden Select. They all really enjoyed this new food because there is a variety of pieces in it. All of the pieces are hay-based, so there are no harmful ingredients, like seeds/sugar/etc. However, it does have different types of hay blends in the pellets, which they absolutely LOVE! My girls love to forage, so they really enjoyed the bigger pieces, digging for them and then running off with them. I've never seen my pigs so ravenous over a food before! I would love to continue feeding this selection.
What is Selective Feeding?
Small animals will instinctively select the most calorically dense pieces of food first when given the choice. When selectively eating, small pets will often leave behind the pieces containing the most valuable nutrition in the form of fiber, protein, vitamins, and minerals.
Selective feeding has been linked to dental disease, GI stasis, bladder sludge, and other serious negative health outcomes.
Rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, and gerbils are all wired to forage for their food. In the wild, these animals are required to search high and low for their daily sustenance. As a pet parent, it's important to create opportunities for your pets to mimic this behavior. The good news is that there are some fun and easy ways to inspire your fluffly loved ones to forage, even in the comforts of home.
Scatter feeding is a great way to make mealtime a little more challenging. Scatter feeding can be practiced with pellets, greens, healthy treats, or any other food that you might typically serve your pets in a single dish.
When supported in healthy and meaningful ways, foraging is a beneficial and instinctual activity for small animals. In this article, Dr. Micah Kohles, DVM outlines numerous ways to support your pet's inctinctual foraging behaviors the right way.
Foraging should be fun! That's why we offer a wide variety of enriching accessories to help you support your pet's foraging instincts in healthy and engaging ways each day. Learn more about our ten favorites!
