I find dried grasshoppers. At least one large one every other day. I saw Deirdra eating one, how gross. It was crunchy.

what do you find?

I must be getting the boring hay.... never found anything but hay in the hay.

DRIED GRASSHOPPERS???

EEEEEEK!!

I'm sure they were crunchy - lol...yikes!!

found all kind of stuff in KAYTEE brand hay... not supposed to be in there. things like plastic rings, plastic, rope, flower buds with spikes that will stick to your fingers [dangerous for bunny's intestines], dirt, roots, small stones. 

no dead snakes or rodents, yet...?!

LOL. I guess, BB's hay you can buy on here is pure and checked but Kaytee obviously isn't.
My hay is local from a hay farm so it is in bales. There is no way they can avoid wrappping up the locusts, they are so abundant.

they are hay-colored and hard to see.

Even when I dry my own grass from my yard it has the hoppers in it. They 'jump' in, you know?

I think it might have been last year, when I just had Archie I believe, I was cleaning out his litter and there was a dead flattened mouse in   Needless to say we switched where we got our hay (plus there was too many weeds and flowers in it...it was more horse hay I think) and the place we're getting it now hasn't had anything in theirs.  Although we may switch in the summer when ads are posted for hay because when we pick it up there, their dog runs around and it looks like it might attack (fur all straight up and barking) so it's a bit scary...but hey for $3 a bale we could lose a hand right?

Grasshoppers?! I heard of someone who found a mouse once.

Yeah, I'm mlucky...never found anything. I do buy the "fancy bagged hay", and I think I don't want to try baled hay now.

Oh dear, Kaytee has all that in it? *wishes she didn't have 3 extra bags...*

Posted By Petzy on 03/11/2010 05:25 PM
Just make sure it's not that hand that you use to stock up the hay racks with... three dollars, that's outlandish cheap! A complimentary mouse is definitely bad deal. I have mouse traps all over my hay shed in the fall just in case.

Yeah that hay was free (from my brother-in-law's in-laws farm), I forgot that one time there was a cricket in there too! ALIVE!  It actually crawled out the tub full of hay and went under our hot water tank.  It was soo loud and annoying and I looked everywhere, went down there with the flashlight and stood there for 5 min. waiting for it to churp.  I thought that thing was huge and it was so tiny!  Took me like 3 days to find it   That mouse was probably already in the hay since it was dead...and flat   Wasn't the best hay but that's what ya get for free.

Oh yes a diamond ring I want some of that kind of hay.

Well I found a stick in the hay.   Twice.   

Posted By Petzy on 03/11/2010 06:53 PM
A corpse like a dead mouse can infect hay with botulism. I guess, your bunnies had a guardian angel.

  I think I might have posted about it but no one ever mentioned that.  Glad nothing happened!  Next time I see a dead mouse I'll know what to do but hopefully this hay won't have that.