Fresh clean water should be available at all times and changed everyday. They can use an 8 to 16oz. We strongly recommend keeping your hedgehog on this food. Sudden changes in diet can lead to runny stools, refusal to eat, or other illness. On rare occasions, your hedgehog may become overweight. If this happens you will have to limit its food. Alternate Diet 1 for one adult hedgehog per day: 1 heaping tsp. Alternate Diet 2 for one adult hedgehog per day 3 heaping tsp.
Alternate Diet 3 for one adult hedgehog per day tsp. Remember baby hedgehogs should have as much as they want to eat, they are growing! The higher the protein the better. If you discover that your hedgehog will not eat the fruits and veggies, you can discontinue the fruits and veggies. You do need to ensure that your hedgehog has another source of fiber available, however.
Choose a solid plastic wheel that is marketed as a good size for a chinchilla or guinea pig. Hedgehogs also need to be provided with a safe hiding place to sleep in during the day. A large exercise ball can also provide safe out-of-cage time for your hedgie. Once you have your pet up in your hands slowly work the shavings out much like separating a yolk of an egg. Once your hedgehog can feel the skin of your hands on its underside they start to relax and lay their quills down.
It is a natural reflex when anything startles them or approaches them from above to huff up their quills and to click in order to protect themselves. In most animals licking is a sign of affection but not in hedgehogs, it means either food, or something they think might evade a predator.
Bathing and Hygiene:It is important to keep you hedgie clean. You will notice that their feet will show signs of filth before the rest of your hog will look dirty. You can read this post for information regarding the vitamin and mineral content of mealworms if you would like more information. We have mentioned earlier in the article, giving your hedgehog too many mealworms can be bad.
Hedgehogs tend to be prone to easy weight gain that can then become a nightmare to burn off. As we touched on earlier in the article, frozen or dried mealworms can lead to impaction problems. Usually, a trip to the vets will be in order for something that can be avoided relatively easily. You can check out this thread and this thread for additional information if you choose. If your hedgehog simply refuses to eat mealworm then there are plenty of other hedgehog food and treats you can try.
Additionally, our article on the best cat food for hedgehogs may be able to help you choose other food types to experiment on with your hedgehog. Our ultimate hedgehog food list guide also contains an extensive selection of foods that you can feed your hog. Still Frozen We have seen some reports from hedgehog owners saying that their hog refused to eat mealworms that were frozen.
Too Young We have also seen a number of reports stating that hogs simply refused to consume mealworms until they were around one year old. You will be getting a healthy selection of three-quarter inch long live mealworms that are jam-packed with nutrients and energy.
How Many Mealworms To Feed A Hedgehog When it comes to hedgehog mealworms , we often see people asking how many mealworms they should feed their hog.
Are Dried Mealworms Good For Hedgehogs As we have already mentioned, high-quality live mealworms can be used as a treat for your hog. Leading to a crisis point of hedgehogs struggling with their damaged bones to survive in the wild. This opens them up to predators who they otherwise could protect themselves against but now struggle as a result of this devastating disease. Mealworms do have some calcium, slightly more if they have been bred by being gut fed additional calcium sources.
Some people have put small pieces of vegetables that have calcium nutrients like broccoli in with their mealworms so once eaten by the mealworms the calcium builds up in the mealworm. The best way to feed mealworms to a hedgehog is to put the mealworms in an area where the hedgehog can hunt for them.
By hiding them, the hedgehog can during their nightly forage for food, exhibit the hunting skills they use in the wild and sniff out mealworms. We used to put them into his cage at night but the mealworms would wriggle under the bedding. As soon as Hynee picked up their scent, he would be like a hedgehog possessed, knocking things over as he tried to get the mealworms. I try to put them in different areas of the cage and put one or two under the bedding, but I do remove his wheel, feeding bowls, house, heat mat and anything else that may either fall or cause problems before putting any mealworms on the bedding.
I never put mealworms in the cage when our hedgehog is not supervised as he can run a mock looking for them, like a bull in a china shop. It is best to give hedgehogs live mealworms to eat but in moderation only. Live mealworms can be put in the hedgehogs cage , allowing the hedgehog to come out in the evening and during their nightly foraging in the cage, they can hunt the mealworms down, catching them and eating them.
Even when he lost some of this teeth to dental problems and had problems chewing mealworms, he would still try to eat them. Dried mealworms contain hardly any water and this is not good as it can be a problem for hedgehogs when it comes to digesting the mealworms.
The dried mealworms can be come difficult to pass through their digestive system leading to faecal impaction, causing a blockage and making it difficult for them to defecate. The freeze-dried mealworms as the name suggests are dried, so contain hardly any water and this can be a problem when it comes to digesting these freeze-dried mealworms.
As the freeze-dried mealworms can become difficult to pass through the digestive system for some hedgehogs leading to impaction, where they cause a blockage in the hedgehogs digestive tract.
Always check with canned mealworms that nothing else has been added to try to preserve them, as this preservative could be detrimental to a hedgehogs health. Mealworms need to be stored properly and refrigerating them is highly recommended. As otherwise, they can change from being larvae into beetles.
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