🌿 Meadow Defence Forage

Cow Parsley • Echinacea Leaves • Rose Petals

Immunity • Digestion • Antioxidant • Appetite • Vitamins • Enrichment

A simple but purposeful botanical forage designed to support digestive health, natural immunity and everyday wellbeing.

Meadow Defence combines soft, highly palatable cow parsley with nutrient-rich echinacea leaves, then finishes the blend with a light scattering of fragrant rose petals for antioxidant variety, colour and natural enrichment.

Rather than relying on sugary vegetables or heavy treat ingredients, this blend keeps things clean and botanical — making it ideal for animals who benefit from a varied forage rotation with a little extra nutritional support.

Soft meadow leaves form the bulk of the blend, while echinacea adds the functional element and rose petals provide the finishing touch.

Simple ingredients. Clear purpose. Natural forage.

🌱 Ingredients

🌿 Cow Parsley – 70%

The Meadow Base

Cow parsley provides the soft, leafy foundation of Meadow Defence.

Naturally fibrous and highly palatable, it encourages grazing, appetite and natural foraging behaviour while adding botanical variety to a fibre-led diet.

Its light texture also makes it ideal for animals who prefer softer forage.

🌿 Echinacea Leaves – 25%

The Botanical Support

Echinacea leaves contain naturally occurring plant compounds including polyphenols and caffeic-acid derivatives.

Traditionally associated with immune support and general wellbeing, echinacea also contributes valuable antioxidant botanical variety to the blend.

Included at a moderate level, it provides a functional element without overpowering the forage.

🌹 Rose Petals – 5%

The Floral Finishing Touch

Rose petals provide colour, scent and a completely different texture to the leafy base.

Naturally containing antioxidant plant compounds, they add botanical diversity while encouraging animals to investigate and explore their forage.

The small amount keeps them firmly as a functional topper rather than decorative filler.

🌿 GGT Categories

Primary

✔ Immunity

✔ Digestion

Secondary

✔ Antioxidant

✔ Appetite

✔ Vitamins

✔ Enrichment

🌿 Benefits at a Glance

🛡️ Immune Support

Echinacea

Provides naturally occurring botanical compounds traditionally associated with supporting normal immune function and general wellbeing.

🌱 Digestive Support

Cow Parsley

A soft, fibre-rich forage that complements a healthy digestive system and encourages continued grazing.

🍽️ Appetite & Food Interest

Cow Parsley • Rose Petals

A combination of soft leaves, floral aroma and contrasting textures helps keep forage interesting and encourages natural feeding behaviour.

🌹 Antioxidant Variety

Echinacea • Rose Petals

Provides naturally occurring polyphenols and other antioxidant plant compounds as part of a varied diet.

🌾 Natural Enrichment

The different scents, colours and textures encourage animals to search, select and explore, turning feeding into enrichment.

🐾 Suitable For

🐹 Guinea Pigs

A soft, highly forageable blend that works well alongside unlimited hay. Cow parsley encourages grazing while echinacea and rose provide additional botanical variety.

🐰 Rabbits

The leafy structure complements a hay-led diet while providing different scents and textures for natural browsing and food searching.

🐹 Chinchillas

Offers botanical variety without fruit or sugary additions. Best used in controlled amounts as part of a varied forage rotation.

🐹 Degus

Naturally low in sugar and based entirely on leaves and flowers, making it suitable for botanical enrichment alongside a fibre-led diet.

🐹 Hamsters

Provides additional scents, textures and food-searching opportunities when scattered throughout the enclosure.

🐭 Gerbils

Works well as scatter forage, encouraging natural investigation and exploration amongst bedding.

🐀 Rats

Adds botanical variety and enrichment alongside a balanced staple diet.

🐁 Mice

A small amount provides plenty of aroma and texture for natural food-searching behaviour.

🐿 Chipmunks

Can be offered as occasional botanical enrichment, adding additional leaves and floral variety to the diet.

🐢 Herbivorous Tortoises

Can be used in small quantities alongside an appropriate variety of fresh weeds and leafy plants.

🦎 Green Iguanas

Can be sprinkled through fresh leafy greens to increase botanical variety and encourage natural browsing.

🥄 Feeding Guide

Guinea Pigs: Approx. 5–10g per animal, 3–4 times per week, scattered through hay or offered as forage.

Rabbits: Approx. 10–20g depending on size, 3–4 times per week, scattered through hay or around the enclosure.

Chinchillas: Approx. 2–4g, 1–2 times per week.

Degus: Approx. 2–4g, 2–3 times per week.

Hamsters: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times per week.

Gerbils: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times per week.

Rats: Approx. 2–5g, 1–2 times per week.

Mice: Approx. 0.5–1g, 1–2 times per week.

Chipmunks: Approx. 1–2g, 1–2 times per week.

Tortoises: Approx. 1 tablespoon, 1–2 times per week, mixed through suitable fresh weeds and leafy foods.

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

Introduce new forage gradually and always provide clean drinking water.

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

🌿 Why This Blend Works

✔ 70% soft leafy forage keeps the blend palatable and fibre-led.

✔ Echinacea provides the functional botanical element without dominating the mix.

✔ Rose petals add antioxidant variety and enrichment without turning the forage into a treat mix.

✔ No sugary vegetables.

✔ No grains.

✔ No unnecessary fillers.

✔ Every ingredient has a reason to be included.

🌾 The Spirit of the Blend

Meadow Defence is built around the idea that supportive forage doesn't need to be complicated.

Soft cow parsley creates a familiar, gentle base.

Echinacea adds purposeful botanical support.

Rose petals finish the blend with colour, aroma and natural antioxidant variety.

🌿 Grazing from cow parsley.

🛡️ Botanical support from echinacea.

🌹 Antioxidant variety from rose.

A simple meadow-inspired forage designed to support the body while still letting animals do what comes naturally:

Graze. Search. Explore.

🌱 Full Ingredients

Cow Parsley (70%), Echinacea Leaves (25%), Rose Petals (5%).

📦 Storage

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

Reseal after opening to protect from moisture and preserve natural aroma and quality.

Best used within 6 months of opening.

⚠️ Important

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

This product is intended to provide nutritional, botanical and enrichment support and is not a replacement for veterinary treatment or prescribed medication.

Introduce gradually if your animal has not eaten the individual ingredients previously.

For hay-dependent animals, unlimited good-quality hay should always remain available.

Handmade at Heart, Rooted in Rescue.