Oxbow Animal Health

Based on a family farm in the middle of rural Nebraska USA, Oxbow is a worldwide supplier of premium life-staged feeds and supportive care products for small herbivores.  Oxbow's products are used and recommended by top exotic animal veterinarians across Australia and around the globe.

Oxbow focuses on education and proper nutrition for these pets.  We continually emphasis the importance of consistent, high fibre diets with grass hays constantly available in their habitat.   The Oxbow product range is built around premium quality grass hays (soft, green, fresh) and super high fibre, pelleted diets, including adult maintenance diets for rabbits and guinea pigs made with nutritionally superior, custom made Timothy grass meal rather than that more commonly found Lucerne (alfalfa) meal.

The veterinary community widely promotes the use of grass hays (including Timothy) because they have found them to be the healthiest combination of fibre, calcium and protein levels for adult pet herbivores.

Professional Advisory Board

Oxbow's Advisory Board consists of the top exotic veterinarians, nutritionists and research professionals.  They specialise in zoo, non traditional animal health care and nutrition worldwide. The Oxbow advisory board members are recognised leaders in exotic animal science.  They have published over 100 peer reviewed articles in scientific publications, and presented these topics, at more than 200 scientific conferences and meetings on exotic animal science worldwide.

References and Recommendations

Oxbow Products are currently recommended in a growing list of veterinary textbooks and journals including:

 

Rabbit and Rodent Dentistry (Vittorio Capello)

Rabbit Rodents & Ferrets (Quesenberry & Carpenter)

Exotic Animal Formulary (Carpenter)

The Veterinarian , Rabbit Clinical Techniques, Aug 2008, (David Vella)  

Saunders Manual of Small Animal Practice (Stephen J Birchard; Robert G Sherding)

British Small Animal Vet Association, Manual of Reptiles, 2^nd edition

Veterinary Clinics of North America- Exotic Animal Practice, Exotic Pet Management for the Technician (Michelle Schulte, Agnes Rupley)

Exotic DVM Magazine (numerous issues)

 

The products have been cited as beneficial in numerous veterinary conference and seminar lectures including:

 

·               Australian Unusual & Exotic Pet Veterinarian’s Specialty Group Conferences

Veterinary Nurse's Council of Australia Conference

·          International Conference on Exotics      

 The North American Veterinary Conference

·               British Small Animal Veterinary Association Seminar, Dental Disease of Rabbits

·               Japanese Animal Hospital Seminar Series, Introduction of Non-traditional Pets: Challenges in the 21^st Century, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, June 2004

·               Association of Amphibian and Reptilian Veterinarians Conference

·               The Japanese Exotic Veterinary Conference

 ·               Association of Avian Veterinarians Conference

·               The Western Veterinary Conference

·              Association of Exotic Small Animal Veterinarians