BUNNY BRUNCH!!! (Wagg Bunny Brunch)

Member Name: moog27

Product:	Wagg Bunny Brunch
Date:	14/04/09 (175 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: price, availability, my rabbit likes it, health benefits

Disadvantages: selective feeding, colourings

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WAGG Bunny Brunch.
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'Tasty Food for Rabbits' is the claim on the front of my 2kg bag of Bunny Brunch.
My 3 year old rabbit is quite the connoisseur when it comes to rabbit food, he has tried practically every brand there is and has his clear favourites as well as the ones he wouldn't touch with a barge pole!

This particular rabbit food ranks near the top on his list of favourites and is only beaten by a more expensive pellet food (why oh why does he have such expensive taste!). In fact this is the first food he ever had when he was a teeny weeny baby rabbit and I now still always have a bag on standby.


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WHAT IS IT?
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WAGG Bunny Brunch is classed as a 'nutritious complementary food' for rabbits. The food consists of small crunchy pieces which are of various shapes and colours. The food mix contains vitamins and minerals including vitamin A, vitamin D3 and Vitamin E.
The bag states that the typical analysis is:
Protein 14.0%
Oil 4.0%
Fibre 9.0%
Ash 5.0%


I understand that you are unlikely to need to know the exact ingredients but I will list the main ones now incase you are considering this rabbit food and your bunny has an allergy:
Peas, Wheat, Wheatfeed, Oatfeed, Maize, Oats, Lucerne, Grass, Sunflower
Ext., Vegetable Oil, Syrup, Carob Meal, Linseed, Vitamins & Minerals, Yeast.
Vitamins and Minerals.
This product may contain traces of nuts, as it has
been made in a factory that uses nut ingredients.
Vitamin A: 6000iu/kg, Vitamin D3: 1000iu/kg,
Vitamin E: 40iu/kg, Copper: 16mg/kg.


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AVAILABILITY
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My bag of Bunny Brunch was purchased from my local Tescos and as I mentioned above is a 2kg bag. Bunny Brunch is also available in 4kg and 16kg bags, although these larger bags are generally only available in large pet superstores. The 2kg bags are the most widely available in supermarkets such as Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Co-op etc and small petshops tend to sell both the 2kg and 4kg bags.


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COST
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As with most products the cost varies from shop to shop but the following prices are from my own experiences of seeing this food for sale:

A 2kg bag costs around £2 to £3
A 4kg bag costs around £6
A 16kg bag costs around £10


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THE POSITIVES
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Whilst this food is not the cheapest available it is not too expensive either so if you don't have the money to spend on the more expensive foods, at least you know your bunny is getting something that is of a reasonable quality.

The packaging of the food states that the food does the following:

- Strengthens the immune system
- optimises digestion of food
- promotes lustrous coat and healthy skin conditions
- promotes strong and healthy teeth

The food is widely available and the bags sizes that it comes in are easy to store and the packaging is of a good quality so the bag wont fall apart!

My rabbit deems the food tasty enough for him to eat which is an obvious positive!

Each piece of the food is crunchy which helps keep your rabbits teeth down and also provides them with something to do (nibbling away on a bit of food is quite entertaining for a rabbit!)

I usually mix this food with a more expensive pellet mix as I cannot afford to just feed Snuffles the pellet mix as he eats like a horse but he tends to like having a mix of the two.

Each of the food pieces are coated with the same mix which has the intention of preventing selective feeding (where the rabbit only picks out the bits it likes and leaves the other bits thus resulting in an unbalanced diet.) However there is a certain part of the food that Snuffles will not each but I will discuss this further in the disadvantages.


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THE NEGATIVES
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As I mentioned above, although the food is coated to prevent selective feeding, there is one part of the mix (the small seeds) that Snuffles does not like and refuses to eat - infact he goes as far as to pick them out and throw them out the cage!!!! Obviously as a result, he is not getting the nutritional value for these pieces. For this reason a pellet food (where the food is just made from identical pellets) tends to be more beneficial for Snuffles as I know then that he is getting everything he needs in his diet.

Whilst the food looks 'pretty' to the human eye as it is lots of nice colours, this has no bearing on the rabbits enjoyment of it, and the colourings used to make the food look attractive to humans actually tend to make my rabbit hyperactive!And obviously these aren't as good for him as food without colourings would be. This therefore is a further reason why I tend to use a pellet food combined with Bunny Brunch as pellet foods are bland in colour, as they have no additives or colourings in them.

It is also important to remember that this food is only a 'complementary' food and therefore it is designed to compliment the rabbits natural diet of hay, vegetables, grass and water. So it is crucial that the rabbit also has these essential foods to maintain its health and a well balanced diet. (although this is also true with ALL man-made rabbit foods).


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FEEDING
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Individual rabbits will eat different amounts of food, as an owner you get used to the amount that your bunny eats and know how much you need to provide. The Bunny Brunch bag has feeding guidelines printed on it suggesting how much to feed your rabbit although with Snuffles, he never tends to eat more than he needs so I just keep an eye on his bowl and refill it when it gets empty.

An important point to remember is that rabbits must always have food available to them as if they stop eating for even just a short period of time (a few hours) their digestive system grinds to a halt and it is very difficult (and expensive in terms of vet bills) to get them better.

This food is designed to be provided to your rabbit in a small bowl - I would recommend a heavy one to stop your bunny throwing it around or chewing it up! I would also suggest putting the food bowl in an area of the hutch where rain water will not get to it otherwise the food can turn to mush if it rains particularly hard and water gets into the bowl!

It is also essential to always have fresh drinking water and fresh hay available in addition to the food.


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OVERALL
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Overall I am quite impressed with this rabbit food. As mentioned above, it does have its disadvantages which is why I combine it with a pellet food, however Snuffles is quite happy to eat this food on its own and it is evident that he enjoys it as he is very fussy with his food and wouldn't eat it if he didn't like it!!

If you do decide to try this food out on your rabbit, I would suggest gradually introducing it to their diet rather than just switching to it straight away as their digestive system may need time to adjust to a new food.

Summary: good rabbit food although not the cheapest