Switching Pelets

[wingittim]

I have finally found a store near by who sells Mazuri. I have been feeding Kaytee wich i now understand is not the best quality. Can i switch the pellets over cold turkey or do i need to do it over a couple weeks? Thanks everyone.

 

[AZChins]

It would be best to do it slowly. I always recommend to mix it until the old food is used up completely. Sometimes the chins switch themselves over cold turkey...and most of the time here I take them off of whatever they were on to begin with. The stress of coming all the way to a new home is more traumatic than just switching their food anyway. But, in your case, I'd mix them half and half and see how it goes.

 

[wingittim]

One other question, there is a large feed store near me. I have read that a high quality rabbit food is a good diet. Would it be better than a high quality chin feed sold at pet stores? Surely its cheaper.

 

[AZChins]

It would really depend on the rabbit pellets. I've looked into switching to locally milled pellets because they are much cheaper and I would assume fresher, but there's always some mystery ingredients or very gross, bad things added. You'd have to see what they have at the feed store. You don't want to end up buying something just because it's cheaper. If that store is a Purina dealer, you may have several options that would work out well. The Mazuri is much cheaper at a feed store in a larger bag than buying it from the petstore in 2.5 lb bags...that's for sure!