Can rabbits eat guinea pig food?

[RubyRain]

I know it’s probably a dumb question but here’s why i ask. I got a bag of the Oxbow GP food for pigs younger than 1 yr and a bag for the GPs older than 1 yr because I didn’t know what I was going to adopt but wanted to be prepared when I got one. Well, my piggies are both over 1 yr so I’m using that food.

Now my son just adopted 2 lionhead bunnies today-both are supposed to be 4mos but I think it might be a mother/daughter because one is a good deal larger and gets very agitated if you take the smaller out to hold. Guess that’s another thread…

ANYWAY, I have this alphalfa based pellets from Oxbow for young guinea pigs and was wondering if I could use it with the bunnies since they are young. It’s not a big deal if I can’t, I just didn’t want it to go to waste and we don’t have a shelter locally that takes guinea pigs that I could donate it too.

They are getting unlimited timothy hay and I offered them some romaine lettuce and carrots, but no interest in that yet. They came with a partial bag of Carefresh Complete Rabbit food-is this any good? It’s got 24% fiber but it has dried colored bits (maybe dried carrot?) and I know that’s bad for piggies. Wasn’t sure if I should keep feeding this or toss it.

I know all about guinea pigs but it’s been almost 15 yrs since my last house rabbit and I’m rusty…..

Thanks for your help.

[Sarita]

I think in the short run it will be fine – they do add vitamin c to the mix which is really the only difference.

It wouldn’t be something you would want to continue with though, but the short term there is no harm.

I’m not entirely certain of the Carefresh Complete but I do know Oxbow pellets are high quality and you would eventually want to go with those.

[jerseygirl]

If the bag is unopened, you can always see if you can return it or swap it at the store.

From what I can tell I think the carefresh pellet has two colours of the pellet(kibble) and possibly bits of carrot. Unless it’s a 3rd coloured kibble. It does have carrot listed as ingredient. You can always take out the carrot if t seems too much. Fibre:protein ratio seems pretty good for this feed. If you don’t continue with the Carefresh food, begin to transition them onto a new food by mixing with the old one while you still have some.

[RubyRain]

I bought the Oxbow on-line so it would cost too much for me to send back a 10lb bag of food.

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