Hi guys,
I don't usually post down here so hello! Thought I'd probe the minds of the bunny experts!
I found something unusual in my bag of pets at home rabbit nuggets and was wondering if anyone else had found something similar?
I've attached a pic, it's the round "thing"
It's slightly red in colour compared to the standard dark green nuggets and smells almost yeasty/meaty

I usually use Excel nuggets so not sure if this is unusual for the pets at home brand or just a normal nugget that got missed during processing.

I've emailed pets at home, in the meantime I guess I'll have to buy another bag of food in case it's something harmful

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How weird, I found something like that in my bunnies bag of wagg optimum the other day!
No idea what it is though.

Ooh weird! Wonder if the brands are manufactured at the same place?!
Have you continued feeding them the food? Hard to know if it's harmful or not

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I am not a complete nutter........Parts of me are missing.

looks like a bit of food that just hasnt been processed correctly, shouldnt cause any harm, because of the lapse of standards in pet food manufacturing you do occasionally get a few bits that manage to bypass the full process, especially in the poorer brands.

personally i wouldnt use PAH food, it is a very poor quality, and only 14% fibre (very very low)
i also wouldnt use excel, as it has quite a lot of nasty aditives in it (including animal by-products) and is known to cause mucky bums, however it is one of the better ones for fibre content (19%)
personally i use allan and page naturals (24% fibre) which is in my opinion the best mix, and does not have anything nasty added (it is also fully organic)
if i couldnt get A+P i would use science select, or wagg optimum

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Thanks, will definitely ditch the rest of the bag then if you've not seen anything like it before, bah!
I offered a normal nugget and the odd "nugget" to my cat to see if he showed any interest in the "meaty" one and he paid it much more attention than the normal one (he stuck his nose right on it sniffing deeply whereas the normal one he did a half sniff and looked away) but he didn't try and eat it, whatever that means lol
Guess the buns are stuck with hay until tomorrow!

Will definitely update if/when I hear from PAH

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Thanks! I bought the PAH brand simply because I couldn't afford to buy a sack of the Excel (LOTS of vet visits last month )
I'll look into the better brands though I usually feel lost looking at the bunny foods, hard to know what is good, so I stuck with Excel as it's what I used to use with my first lot of bunnies years ago.

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I didn't know excel was a bad food? I was told it's good and it's the only pellets Leo will eat

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Owned by Buster cairn terrier mix and Leo netherland dwarf mix bunny

Flippin heck, Allan and Page is half the price of Excel for 10kg more?!

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excel is one of the better brands, purely for its fibre count, but it is at the bottom of the okay foods lists, if that makes sense, its the one you get if you cant get the others
i personally would never feed it, and so many rabbits are prone to mucky bums on it (probably due to the animal by-products in it)

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