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【Pet Hedgehog Feeding】What do newborn hedgehogs eat?

2021-09-03 / 879 Read

If you have a hedgehog at home, many people are first-timers. If you want to know more about its diet, you might as well take a look with the editor today. Feed the newborn hedgehog and give it to the newborn hedgehog. What is it? I hope the hedgehog diet knowledge provided by the editor can help everyone.

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What does a newborn hedgehog eat?

A newborn hedgehog can't eat anything, Can only eat female hedgehog milk. So make sure to give the mother hedgehog enough food and water, so you don't have to worry about the little hedgehog not eating. When the little hedgehog is weaned, it will eat normal food with the mother hedgehog, and you can prepare more food at that time. If there is no female hedgehog, you can put a hose on a syringe and feed the little hedgehog some milk or goat milk. Feed 3-5 times a day, 1-5ml each time or until the little hedgehog doesn't want to eat. After a week, you can add some strawberry flesh, and after two weeks, you can add some fruits such as cantaloupe and apple.

The correct feeding method for the little hedgehog:

Use a needle to put the mouth and the hedgehog's lips together and squeeze a drop to let it inhale, not more than two or three mouthfuls of milk, or feed too much, which will lead to inconvenience. Carefully hurt it. Feed every 2-3 hours, or if you hear them screaming, call to feed first.

The correct weaning time for hedgehogs:

You can usually start weaning hedgehogs when they are three weeks old. Note that this is only a weaning process, not a complete weaning, just start mixing some dry food, soften it with warm water, about 5-6 weeks of age, you can let them eat dry food on their own.

Precautions for feeding small hedgehogs:

1. Little hedgehogs prefer to eat chicken, so when you are at home, prepare finely chopped chicken for the hedgehog, and then order other vegetables. Feed it to the little hedgehog.

2. Little hedgehogs especially like to eat carrots and cucumbers. Therefore, in normal times, you can eat more of these two types of food for hedgehogs. Pay attention and wash them.

3. You can't just eat the above two kinds of vegetables. The best thing is to add some meat. Chicken is the best choice. There are also caterpillars, earthworms or snails, which can also be eaten by small hedgehogs.

4. In fact, little hedgehogs eat a variety of foods. Generally, there are nut foods, which can also be suitable for hedgehogs to eat. It's also good to let it play with nuts. For nuts, you can use peanuts, walnuts, or almonds. Only in this way can good results be achieved. In terms of nutrition, hedgehogs still pay more attention to nutritional balance.

5. The feeding of small hedgehogs is very simple. As long as they are not given spoiled or stale food, their hedgehogs can be raised well.

So, do you all know what the new-born hedgehog eats? Then you must learn the above related content, so that you can better feed your hedgehog.