Our Hedgehog

[coura]

Cool never saw a hipomelanistic one that was not albino

 

[wolfsburgfanatic]

I've just noticed, have you given your hedgehog a ball to play with?

yup Apparently they love to play with a lot of the generic cat toys. They can also be trained to come on command and use a litter box (we haven't gotten to that point though). Definately a pretty cool animal.

 

[HX67]

storebought hedgehog food consisting of wheat, oats, raisins, peanuts, etc.

Is that really what it contains?

Sounds a bit odd, for a primarily insectivorous animal...

 

[wolfsburgfanatic]

Is that really what it contains?

Sounds a bit odd, for a primarily insectivorous animal...

yup, heres the two foods we bought. Please excuse any typos as I've been up for about 30 hours now

Vitakraft Hedgehog Food: Puffed Wheat, Rolled Oats, Raisins, Crushed Peanuts, Cod-Liver Oil, Sunflower Seeds, Shrimp, Sugar Beet Syrup, Dried Pork Meal, Ground Prawn, Corn Meal, Puffed Corn, Soybean Oil, Rice Flakes, Honey, Dehydrated Carrots, Nutmeg Fine, Calcium Propionate

Crude Protein (min) 17.7%
Crude Fat (min) 15.4%
Crude Fiber (max) 2.6%
Moisture (max) 11.0%
Ash (max) 6.1%
Calcium (min) 1.0%
Phosphorus (min) 0.4%



Complete Nutrition Hedgehog Diet: Poultry By-Product Meal, Chicken Fat, Corn, Corn Gluten Meal, Chicken Digest, Wheat Flour, Choline Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Sulfate, Taurine, Iron Sulfate, Zinc Proteinate, Vitamin E Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Iron Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Niacin, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Proteinate, d-Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin, Copper Sulfate, Cobalt Carbonate, Biotin, Thiamine Mononitrate, Folic Acid, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Copper Proteinate, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite, Sodium Selenite.

Crude Protein (min) 30.0%
Crude Fat (min) 8.0%
Crude Fiber (max) 5.0%
Moisture (max) 10.0%

 

[jdiidy271]

very cute!!!!!

 

[HX67]

yup, heres the two foods we bought....

All right, the "ETC" held a lot under it, then. Sounds better.

A fair substitute for a special hedgie food would be a mixture of dry ferret food and dry low-fat catfood...
Mixture depending on the age and activity of the animal.

Nice animal, by the way.

A curious fact: a friend of mine made a "hamster wheel" for his african pygmy hedgie. The wheel is about 1,5 feet diameter. He installed a bicyckle trip gauge to it (and yes, he has adjusted it right) .
It's outrageous. The hedgehog does 10+ KILOMETERS every night, the record being over 18 km.

 

[HX67]

a friend of mine made a "hamster wheel" for his african pygmy hedgie.

Just thought I'd put up a reference link:
http://www.suomensiiliyhdistys.fi/diy/wheel/wheel.html

 

[wolfsburgfanatic]

The hedgehog does 10+ KILOMETERS every night, the record being over 18 km.

Thats like 6 1/2 miles a night! I knew they were extremely active at night but thats insane

She does have a wheel, it was just out of frame in the picture. Like this one:

Thanks for all the comments guys!

 

[SaintSin7]

ha those are cool. i almost got one once