🌿 Wych Elm Leaf – Pure or Grass Mix

Pure- 2 Cups, Approx 35G

Mixed - 2 Cups, Approx 45G

Choose Your Option

🌿 Pure Wych Elm Leaf – 100% Wych Elm Leaves

or

🌿🌾 Wych Elm Grass Mix – 70% Wych Elm Leaves • 30% Natural Grass

Digestion • Natural Browse • Appetite • Enrichment

Bring a little bit of the British woodland into their forage with Wych Elm Leaf – a naturally fibrous browse offering plenty of texture, variety and opportunities for natural feeding behaviours.

Wych elm (Ulmus glabra) is a native British tree whose leaves have a long history of being used as animal fodder. Its broad, slightly textured leaves create a completely different browsing experience from softer meadow plants, making them ideal for animals who enjoy selecting, chewing and exploring their forage.

Choose 100% Pure Wych Elm Leaf for simple, single-ingredient browse, or select the Grass Mix for the same generous leaves combined with natural grass for additional fibre, grazing and enrichment.

Simple. Natural. Proper woodland browse.

🌱 Choose Your Option

🌿 100% Pure Wych Elm Leaf

Wych Elm Leaves – 100%

Nothing added and nothing hidden.

The pure option is perfect if you want complete control over your animal's forage or enjoy creating your own combinations using different leaves, flowers and botanicals.

Offer it alone, scatter it through hay or mix it with other suitable GGT forage.

Why Choose Pure?

✔ 100% single ingredient

✔ Natural woodland browse

✔ Provides plant fibre and dietary variety

✔ Encourages chewing and exploration

✔ Perfect for creating personalised forage blends

✔ Easy to scatter amongst hay for enrichment

🌿🌾 Wych Elm Grass Mix

Wych Elm Leaves – 70%

Natural Grass – 30%

The same natural wych elm leaves combined with a fibre-rich grass mix.

The grasses add contrasting textures and encourage animals to spend longer searching, selecting and grazing, rather than simply eating forage from a bowl.

Why Choose the Grass Mix?

✔ Extra natural fibre

✔ More varied textures

✔ Encourages grazing and food searching

✔ Excellent scatter forage

✔ Supports normal digestive function

✔ Creates a more natural foraging experience

🌿 Wych Elm – Natural Benefits

🌳 Natural Browse

Wych elm has been used historically as animal fodder, making its leaves a genuine browse ingredient rather than simply a decorative addition to forage.

The broad, slightly rough leaves provide a very different texture from grasses, flowers and softer herbs.

🌱 Digestive Support

Wych elm leaves provide natural fibrous plant matter that can contribute to a varied, fibre-led diet.

For hay-eating species, they work best alongside unlimited good-quality hay rather than replacing it.

🍽️ Appetite & Variety

Introducing different safe leaves, scents and textures can help maintain interest in forage and encourage animals to investigate their food.

Wych elm is particularly useful for adding variety to animals already familiar with common browse such as willow, hazel and hawthorn.

🌾 Natural Enrichment

Foraging isn't just about nutrition.

Searching through leaves and grasses allows animals to sniff, select, chew and explore, helping turn feeding into a natural behavioural activity rather than simply another bowl of food.

🌿 GGT Categories

Primary

✔ Digestion

✔ Enrichment / Natural Browse

Secondary

✔ Appetite

✔ Daily Botanical Variety

🐾 Suitable For

🐹 Guinea Pigs

Wych elm provides fibrous leafy browse and a different texture from softer forage plants, encouraging natural chewing and exploration alongside a hay-led diet.

🐰 Rabbits

Rabbits naturally benefit from a varied selection of safe browse. Wych elm offers additional leafy diversity and works particularly well scattered through hay or mixed with other tree leaves.

🐹 Chinchillas

Provides botanical variety without sugary fruit or starchy treats, making it useful in controlled amounts alongside unlimited hay.

🐹 Degus

A naturally low-sugar leafy browse suitable for adding plant diversity and enrichment to a fibre-led diet.

🐹 Hamsters

Small quantities provide natural textures, scents and food-searching opportunities when scattered through the enclosure.

🐭 Gerbils

The leaves can be hidden amongst bedding and forage areas to encourage natural investigation and searching.

🐀 Rats

Adds fibrous botanical variety and environmental enrichment alongside a balanced staple diet.

🐁 Mice

A small scatter offers interesting natural textures and scents while encouraging food-searching behaviours.

🐿 Chipmunks

Can be offered in small quantities as leafy botanical enrichment and natural browse.

🐢 Herbivorous Tortoises

Can provide occasional dried leafy variety alongside an appropriate fresh weed and plant-based diet.

🦎 Green Iguanas

Small amounts can be mixed through their fresh leafy foods to introduce additional botanical variety and browsing texture.

🥄 Feeding Guide

Guinea Pigs: Approx. 5–10g per animal, 3–5 times weekly, scattered through hay or offered as browse.

Rabbits: Approx. 10–20g depending on body size, 3–5 times weekly, mixed through hay or scattered around the enclosure.

Chinchillas: Approx. 2–4g, 1–2 times weekly, alongside unlimited good-quality hay.

Degus: Approx. 2–4g, 2–3 times weekly, scattered through hay or forage areas.

Hamsters: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times weekly, scattered for enrichment.

Gerbils: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times weekly, hidden amongst bedding or forage.

Rats: Approx. 2–5g, 1–2 times weekly, offered as scatter forage or enrichment.

Mice: Approx. 0.5–1g, 1–2 times weekly.

Chipmunks: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times weekly as botanical enrichment.

Tortoises: Approx. 1 tablespoon, 1–3 times weekly, mixed amongst suitable fresh weeds and leafy foods.

Green Iguanas: Small sprinkle, 1–2 times weekly, mixed through fresh leafy greens.

Introduce new forage gradually and always provide clean drinking water.

Hay-dependent animals should have unlimited access to good-quality hay.

🌿 Pure or Grass Mix – Which Should I Choose?

Choose Pure Wych Elm Leaf if you:

🌿 Want a simple single-ingredient browse.

🌿 Like creating your own forage combinations.

🌿 Already provide plenty of hay and grasses.

🌿 Want to introduce woodland leaves individually.

🌿 Prefer complete control over what goes into your animal's forage.

Choose the Wych Elm Grass Mix if you:

🌾 Want additional fibre and texture.

🌾 Want a ready-to-feed forage combination.

🌾 Enjoy scatter feeding.

🌾 Want to encourage longer grazing and searching sessions.

🌾 Have animals that enjoy picking their favourite leaves from amongst grasses.

🌳 Why Wych Elm?

Wych elm is Britain's only truly native elm species and has been used historically as animal fodder.

Rather than loading this forage with unnecessary extras, we've kept it simple and allowed the leaf itself to do what natural browse does best:

🌿 Provide variety.

🌿 Encourage chewing.

🌿 Increase plant diversity.

🌿 Give animals something interesting to investigate.

🌿 Help recreate natural browsing behaviours.

Sometimes good forage doesn't need a huge list of ingredients.

Sometimes a really good leaf is enough.

📦 Storage

Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.

Reseal after opening to protect against moisture and help maintain the natural aroma and texture.

Best used within 6 months of opening.

⚠️ Important

Feed as a complementary forage alongside a balanced, species-appropriate diet.

Wych elm forage should consist of correctly identified Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) leaves.

This forage is not a replacement for hay in hay-dependent species.

Always introduce unfamiliar forage gradually.

🌿 The GGT Approach

Natural forage doesn't have to make dramatic promises to be valuable.

Wych elm has a long history as animal browse, and that's exactly what we're using it for – natural leaves, dietary variety and enrichment that encourages animals to forage the way they're built to.

Choose it pure, or add grass for an even more varied grazing experience.

Browse. Graze. Search. Explore.

Ingredients

Pure Option: 100% Dried Wych Elm Leaves (Ulmus glabra)

Grass Mix Option: Wych Elm Leaves (70%), Natural Grass Mix (30%)

No grains. No added sugars. No artificial colours or flavours.