Small Pet Select 2Nd Cutting Timothy Hay Food TIMOTHYHAY-022

I ordered this hay from Small Pet Select in the first place because it said it was 2nd cutting quality blend but, I was greatly disappointed. I don't even believe this is 2nd cutting because it looks and feels like 1st cuttings. I was so upset especially for the price I paid. The hay smells good but not great, the texture is coarse and rough definitely not the 2nd cutting hay from High Dessert I previously purchased on Amazon. This hay from Small Pet Select is very dusty, rough, and plenty of seed heads that make me believe I didn't receive the quality 2nd cutting hay promised in the product description. My guinea pigs will not eat it, they will eat just about about anything but they refused to eat it this hay. I had to make a emergency order to High Desert for their hay because my pets simply weren't eating the hay instead they were just used the Small Pet hay to lay on. Not happy, not soft, or anything promised. Amazon really needs to do better about the description given on the site because I really use and rely on the information they provide about the products. This hay is bad NOT good, terrible quality, it's dry, coarse, with plenty of seed heads, very dusty and it definitely doesn't seem as advertised.

Green,fresh,great looking hay ,I sift every batch for my buns ,so I was happy to get very little to no waste…this is gonna last me few weeks and my buns are loving the crunch!

My guinea pigs love it. With other brands the hay is often shorter and crumbles, and my pigs would pull it out of the stack but not eat it. This they eat almost all.

When I first got my bunny as a baby I was feeding him alfalfa hay along with other veggies and a few pellets - he was already eating regular food. The thing with the alfalfa hay is that he was picking out the softer stuff and leaving behind the "sticks", so when it came time to invest in hay my first purchase from SPS was 3rd cutting because it is "softer" - so I bought the 40lb box. I have done farm work in the past and I know about hay. My first impression was of how there was so much brown and so little green. I thought that would change as I used the hay but it didn't change much, and it turns out as an adult my bunny preferred the crunchier stuff. That wasn't a problem because there was plenty of crunchy stuff, but then we came to the last 1/3 of the box, which was all shreds, fluffy stuff and dusty stuff. I needed to buy more hay, and now knowing he prefers the crunchier stuff, I chose to purchase the 25lb box of second cutting from SPS. Wow! It was like night and day! 100% green, highly compressed (the top of the box was bulging when I got it) and the bunny absolutely loves it and is now eating more hay. I didn't even keep going with the old box, and I think this 25lb box is going to last longer than the bigger one! I have nothing to complain about with my purchase of second cutting, and have since found out that most bunnies are fed second cutting unless they are older and need softer hay, or picky eaters. The thing I know about 3rd cutting is that it is the one MOST affected by summer - whether there are dry conditions and for how long, etc. This product came perfectly packed, UPS dropped it a day early, and the quality of the hay is top notch. I will probably stick with this brand and second cutting now for the foreseeable future, and would recommend Small Pet Select.

My rabbit and guinea pigs love this hay.