Grandpa's Best Timothy Hay Mini Bale, 10 Lbs (Packaging may vary),Brown

I read all of the reviews before I purchased, as I didn't want a huge shipment showing up and then forcing the bunny to eat the hay (it may not like) until it was gone. I started getting nervous as some of the poor reviews, but took a chance. I am so, so glad that I did. The condensed bale showed up, in a medium box, in a large plastic bag. No mess there to carry it through the house. It was very high quality, fresh, and fragrant. For those people like me who do read the reviews, here is my feedback with the other reviews in mind: 1. I think the people shocked at the condensed bale just do not understand hay or farming. Yes, this is 10 lbs of timothy hay super pressed into a tiny bale. Yes, it will be difficult to separate. You may need some sort of tool to loosen it up as you flake it out for your pet. This should be obvious it was not coming loose like the bags of hay that are loosely filled. Yes, you will need scissors to cut the bale open. Once again, this is 10 lbs of hay pressed into a tiny block!!! 2. My bunny LOVES it. Yes, there are random sizes of hay in the bale. This is normal. Again, you are buying a high quality, farm cut and processed, bale of hay. None of the hay is inedible. The bale I received is very fresh and bunny has NOT picked through it like other hays I have purchased (from petco, local farm store, walmart). Even the large pieces are eaten up quickly because they are NOT hard and stale. 3. It is okay for hay to loose color. Organic products (ie: plants) can loose color when it gains access to air and such. Just because it is not bright green in part of it does not make it bad. Mold and moisture is when hay is bad. I think this is an awesome, quality product that I will continue to purchase. I absolutely love that its pressed into a tiny bale. I can put it in a storage container with a lid to keep the mess down (vs that time i bought a 20 lb bale from the local farm store and it was huge and made an even bigger mess). Also, it is cost effective and as it lasts longer, I am being pro-active and not re-purchasing a bi-weekly plastic bag of hay from walmart or petco (less plastic is good!). As well, it makes me feel great to be supporting a small farm vs a large random company and low quality product.

The Timothy Hay is great. It has a fresh scent and is a nice, green color, not dry. My Sulcata tortoise loves it and devours it. However, my only complaint is the delivery time. This order took 3 weeks to arrive which caused me to buy the timothy hay from Walmart and my tortoise does not really like it.

After going through all 10 lbs I was concerned to get another one while waiting on shipping. I tired another brand, supposedly one of the best, and the hay did not even come close to comparing to Grandpas Timothy hay. The hay that we bought from here was much softer, and when we got our rabbit, he hardly ate any hay. But when we tried the hay, my rabbit ate so much so fast that I ran out faster than I wanted to! He will it touch the other brand at all, and it was much thicker, drier, and harder for him to chew. He doesn't eat it as fast as the grandpa hay. His poop also looked larger and more healthier. I am just anxiously waiting for grandpa's hay to come quickly so that I can give him what he originally loves. It's too bad about these other reviews because the rabbit and I have really loved this hay. It has changed his poop significantly then when we first got him which means he is very very healthy on this hay. Hope this reviews brings light to how great this product is. I don't mind pulling it apart. Once pulled apart, it's fluffy and great to work with. There were some yellow hay here and there, but not disappointed by it.

Every feed store i go to only sells bales in 100lbs and I: 1. Don’t need that much and 2. Am in a wheelchair and cant carry 100lbs of hay. I ordered this hay to try it out since i was paying $18 for about 3lbs of hay every two weeks. You can definitely tell a difference in the look, but its compressed, of course its going to look different. I didn't notice an aroma until i started to fluff the bale to loosen the hay. It “smells like a barn” in my house according to my roommate.... which is actually a great smell. The bale came apart quite easily, which is nice because i half expected to have to chisel away at it.... i gave my bunny’s a little piece if it still compressed to let them go to town, and they love it! Thinking of grabbing two of the 5lbs so they can have their own bales to gnaw at. The picture is the hay after i loosened up some of it, and i put some of their normal expensive hay in there to see a difference, and there really isn’t much other than the compressed hay is flat and the loose hay is more round. I’m now sneezing a bunch, so i know its real lol jkjk

I have two small rabbits. They love this hay and so do I. The compressed bales are incredibly convenient. I have indoor rabits and live in a townhouse. Hay is cheaper when you buy 10+ lbs at a time, but it usually comes in huge boxes. These mini bales save a ton of space. They are also way less messy for me because I can easily put them in a plastic tub without spilling any hay (that part of the process is usually a huge mess and frustrating because I the tubs usually only fit about half the box of other kinds of hay). And I can fit more hay into a feeder at a time which makes my life easier (only need to feed them every other day now). The bunnies love the hay and seem to eat all of what I give them and then flop down in their way that indicates they are happy and satiated. The bales have smaller cuts of hay with more stems/ fewer flowering seed pods than some other brands of hay, but my bunnies don't seem to care. From what I've read, the stems are perfectly fine for nutrition ( some bunnies apparently have taste preferences for the seeds, but mine don't). And the price is right. I paid about $2.50 per pound for a 10 lbs box, which is about as cheap as any hay I've seen on this site. Complaints about dust/ small flakes seem overblown. Yes, there's some dust, but I've never found a brand that doesn't have that. And I appreciate that it comes in plastic bags (some brands don't which really sucks when the cardboard box gets wet in the rain).

This sounded like a great deal since it was the same price as what I was currently purchasing (Nature's Harvent by Katee from Target), but organic and compacted into a more space-saving bale (since we often hit the road, paws and all). My furry baby refused to eat it, which I can understand. It was not as soft or green as what I had been purchasing. It seemed dryer and older, thicker and longer, and since it had been pressed/smashed into this bundle you had to try to fluff it up again. Since my baby didn't just pick at it but refused to eat it at all I attempted to reach out to the seller to see if I got a bad/old bale. There was no contact information for the seller so I searched the internet for Grandpa's Best and was informed they are the manufacturer but it is actually a Vet Office that is selling their products on Amazon (so THE SELLER IS NOT THE MANUFACTURER AS IT APPEARS). In the course of my conversation with the owner (and quite by accident) I was informed that ONLY THE ORCHARD GRASS IS ORGANIC, despite the organic symbol/logo on the picture of all four products together and the ingredient listed as, "Sun cured 100% Organic Native Grass Hay". At the real Grandpa's Best (the manufacturer) I spoke with Chase (the owner) and Mike (in customer service). Mike was not willing to do much about it but Chase was much more interested in the quality of the hay and discovering the incorrect advertising. Their apathy made much more sense when I realized they were not the Amazon seller who I paid. IN CONCLUSION: I was unimpressed with the quality of this product, and very frustrated to learn the actual Amazon seller misrepresented themselves as the manufacturer as well as the product. Unless I decide to try a different company's organic timothy hay, I will stick with my 48 oz bags from Target that my baby loves.

I have been buying this hay and it has been great and our guinea pig would eat it up. Until the last 2 shipments. I was refunded 2 shipments ago because the hay was more brown than green. I reordered and this shipment was a little improved but still not what it used to be. When put up against the scraps that were left in cage from 3 shipments ago that was finished up 4 days ago, the new stuff so brown and unhealthy looking.

I bought this because it was a better deal then the Timothy Gold we first bought. The packaging is exactly as described it is very compact for the weight, Which I like. you have to use a decent knife to cut into the red binding, once you do it does flake off as stated and it comes apart very easily. It is a first cut not a second cut and it is not very soft. It has some very stiff twig like pieces. It does not smell as fresh or sweet as the Timothy Gold did. It is not completely dust free but that has to be expected as it is shipping and getting knocked around for the amount. Young rabbits apparently need first cut hair because it is not as soft and it helps to wear down their teeth. I was a little bit worried initially at how stiff it was but my bunny loves it. First cut does not smell as sweet as second cut. Second cut does not have as much fiber as first cut. So if your bunny only ate second cut hay expect a few more droppings from this initially. My sweet bunny seems to like it does not have issue we will buy this again.