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

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.

This hay is the MOST affordable PLUS u get a good size bag that's compressed really solid. I been buying this hay for some time. I also went ahead and subscribed to the merchant for a discount on future buys. I bought this hay when the price was 15$. There out of stock of 5 pounds bags as of 11/4/2025 but I got a notification that my order is being delivered on the 12 which is perfect. I'm paying 18$ now on the hay. Everyone's prices are at least 30$ but it won't be 5 a pound bag.

I have been subscribed to this product for a few years. We like the compact packaging. It’s great for storage, serving. I can fit more hay in a smaller space. The hay breaks off in a square instead of a handful of loose hay, which seems to go farther, with fewer times refilling the feed bag and makes less of a mess when filling her feed bag. One complaint I have is the texture of the hay can be inconsistent , sometimes it is darker green and softer with a grass like consistency and other times it appears lighter and coarser with a more hay like consistency.

Wow, what a disappointment. Make that a shock, after reading the product details and watching their video. The first shock was opening the bag and finding a pretty pale looking block, with no fresh hay fragrance at all coming from it. Maybe the mini-bale I got was one that got forgotten somewhere for months? Next shock: it' turns out to be almost completely unusable, putting out pieces that aren't big enough to actually serve up. A mysterious mini-brick of hard stuff that you get to fight with to unpack into - a mega-mess. So all in, a waste of money - and time. Because make no mistake the clean up of the mega-mess is a major hassle, and a real health hazard for vacuum cleaners - as well as for any being that breathes. Which isn't actually a joke. Inhaling those fine particles even if they're organic ones is seriously not OK for any species, including not for us! So much for "low dust" hay. I first thought maybe I didn't know how to work with the compressed hay. So I tried to figure this out before I wrote a review. This is what I found. When I eventually pried apart one the superglued slabs (I can't see these as "flakes": they're good and solid wads, nothing flake-like or " Soft-Textured Formulation" about them) and tried to "fluff" it like in the video, I ended up with a pile of tiny fragments and itty-bitty stalky bits with some flattened and broken up seed heads, and.... a whole lot of dust, I mean a LOT of crushed into powder leaf etc. Then I tried to see if I could get better results, meaning more actually usable sized pieces and also less powdery fall out, by gently, slowly teasing the wads apart, and NOT bashing the "flakes" up like in the video. That's when I saw with certainty that the reason I was ending up with itty-bitty stuff wan't because I was crushing it up trying to get it apart, but because the wads themselves are made up of really little bits, fragments, and powdery stuff all compressed together. That's also pretty much, what my eyes were warning me when I watched the video. But I wanted to believe what the nice demonstrator said, that it's really "nice long pieces". The video also says their way of packing hay is designed to reduce mess. Which is true - so long as you don't take the hay out of the bag to use it. Maybe some critters could decide to eat this like it was a giant gnawing block or giant food pellet. I thought of trying that. But I dropped the idea because that seems like literally letting them shove their noses into wads of stuff that is going to release rounds of fine particles right into their faces as they gnaw. Not OK. My takeaway is really wanting to know what exactly their "patented hand sifting process" is - and why it's not actually producing what they tell us they're producing, and if it's going to if they get it right. Because a handy, safe, and also fairly cost-effective compressed - low dust AND organic - pack of Timothy hay IS a really great idea! Meanwhile I just don't get it. They don't say that they're starting out by chopping up regular bales of hay into little bits and pieces. Short of doing that, the only part of a regular bale of first cut, and a more mature second cut Timothy hay you can "hand sift" is the itty-bitty stuff that falls out of the regular or big hay bales as they get handled and stacked/moved around. Cutting up, and/or handling super dried out hay bales both generate a lot of bits and pieces and powder level crushed stuff. Maybe they will work out a better "process" to get that. Maybe I got a bottom-of-the-barrel one and they need to work on better quality control. Maybe they make enough profit doing it this way that they don't need to do anything. Meanwhile it's back to reading reviews for me. I really appreciate the many other people who share their experiences so I can try to make more informed choices.

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).