Undesirable ingredients can easily be visually disguised within an extrusion, although if it is an unpalatable ingredient, animals may refuse or waste the food. Only the highest quality cereals, legumes, forages and oils are incorporated into Supreme's product range, and the ingredients used are declared on the packet, so the owner knows exactly what they are buying. A complementary product may also be balanced, but because you can't necessarily guarantee what else the animal eats, and how much, the final diet more often than not is unbalanced. T he whole diet is balanced i.e. Russel supplies all the key nutrients needed to meet the daily needs of the animal, together with sufficient energy to sustain the animal. The Russel Rabbit foods can also be described as a balanced diet, as not only is each nutrient neither deficient or toxic, but it is present in the correct ratio to the energy content and other nutrients.
Many nutrients are in forms that are more available and hence useable by the animal.
In restricted conditions, with little stimulation in the cage, a single component diet such as a pellet or extrusion will do little to alleviate boredom. On the one hand boredom can lead to divisive behaviour such as self-mutilation, cannibalism and infanticide. On the other, if the animal's only source of pleasure is eating, this may lead to obesity. Variety of ingredients. In the unlikely event of food intake tailing off, one of the other products in the Russel Rabbit range may be gradually introduced into the diet.