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  1. Diet and Nutrition
    Fiber Digestion in the African White-Bellied Hedgehog (Atelerix albiventris): A Preliminary Evaluation DOI: Redirecting We have a great pinned post discussing the advanced nutrition regarding ingredients and guaranteed analysis. However, a lot of the community has chosen favorite food brands...
  2. Diet and Nutrition
    Hello all, I recently adopted my grandmothers hedgehog and have been doing my best to give her only the good stuff. I was kind of surprised that the standard diet is kibble and mealworms and want to give her some healthy/fresh things. I’ve done my research and tried a few different things: snap...
  3. Diet and Nutrition
    Why does the general hedgehog community dislike Mazuri? So I get that based on ingredients, it doesn't look like the best quality. However, Mazuri has several scientific studies featuring their diets for exotics, including the insectivore diet that hedgehogs would be fed. Conspiracy/hypothesis...
  4. Diet and Nutrition
    Hello everyone! I have been very indecicive latley about how much food i should be feeding pickles. At first i was feeding her 1 time a day and feeding her about 3 table spoons and she was demolishing it within 30 minutes so I thought she was very hungry. I googled it and it said to start...
  5. Diet and Nutrition
    I saw this post on a FB group, hopefully it can help some South Africans on this forum
  6. Diet and Nutrition
    A few months ago I got my first hedgehog, Penumbra, from a breeder. She’s a cute, pretty picky baby, and I’m looking to add some variety to her diet. I don’t necessarily want to do a raw food diet, but I was thinking more of a whole food approach to supplement her kibble. Right now she gets a...
  7. Diet and Nutrition
    Hello :) Our Heggie is healthy 1 year and 10 months old. Since our heggie did not like eating kibbles, we had to look for some other balanced alternative. So we decided to give him wet cat food along with 5-7 different types of insects as a staple diet. Occasionally he gets egg, or salmon as a...
  8. Diet and Nutrition
    Hello! So I have been experimenting the kibbles with Eiji lately. She likes it when it’s dry eventhough it looks a bit tough for her to chew it but she ate alot when its not soaked with water. Is it good to let her eat it like that??? She is just 3 months old. However, when I tried to soaked her...
  9. Fecal & Intestinal issues
    Hi! My hedgehog Loki is probably getting close to 3 years old and he has lost some teeth, so recently I’ve been soaking his dry food in water. I want to ditch the kibble because after some reading it seems like kibble in general is not good for them (cats too). Anyways, does anyone have a...
  10. Diet and Nutrition
    I've been feeding Pebbles a mix of Purina kitten chow and Vita Kraft hedgehog food for about a year now, and recently it doesn't seem to be sitting well with her, so I'm looking to switch. Ideally it would be a mix of foods with less seafood in it and enough nutrients I don't have to worry about...
  11. Fecal & Intestinal issues
    My 4 month old quillpig has had anemic poops since I've gotten her and, at first, I thought it was normal for hoglets especially with the stress of a new home and everything, but it still hasn't gotten any better. [Could it possibly be her diet? I'm feeding her Vitakraft Vitasmart Hedgehog...
  12. Diet and Nutrition
    Hi so I need like a answer, my hedgehog hasn’t eaten his hedgie pellets with nutrients and vitamins as well with high protein as the bag says, the brand is Vita Prima hedgehog food, usually I give him cat food with it. I went out of town recently about Sunday afternoon til about Tuesday evening...
  13. Diet and Nutrition
    Our little girl has been having some tummy issues and is not pooping as much as she normally does. She is still pooping though and no pained noises while doing so, so we are confident it's not an obstruction- just a little constipation. To fight this, we are going to start giving her a little...
  14. Health
    Hi everyone! My little guy just turned 1 this month. He is super active, very friendly and I have had no issues with him! Within the past 3 days I have noticed he is pooping skinny logs. At first I didn’t pay much attention because he will poop a big one then a smaller one a bit later. But it...
  15. Diet and Nutrition
    I've been looking into getting a hedgehog and have seen that cat food is often recommended. I currently have a cat that eats Iams Proactive Health healthy senior. Would that be good to also feed a hedgehog?
  16. Diet and Nutrition
    Thoughts on mixing 5lbs of CANIDAE® UNDER THE SUN® GRAIN FREE WITH CHICKEN CRUDE PROTEIN (MIN.) 25.00% CRUDE FAT (MIN.) 11.00% CRUDE FIBER (MAX.) 4.00% MOISTURE (MAX.) 10.00% Chicken meal, garbanzo beans, peas, chicken fat, dried whole egg, chicken, flaxseed, suncured alfalfa, natural flavor...
  17. Diet and Nutrition
    Hello, I was recently looking into the WholeHearted Grain Free Chicken Formula Dry Cat Food. I read on a previous forum that Cat Food should be around 30% Protein and 12% Fat. Well, the Protein percentage is at about 32% and the Fat is at 12% so I figured that looked alright. The Ingredients...
  18. Diet and Nutrition
    Hi all! I have recently taken ownership of a lovely (yet very grumpy & unsocialized) spikey child. She is currently eating Friskies cat food, but I am not happy with it's quality. I have done my best to look through the existing forums for food advice, but cannot seem to find a definite...
  19. New Member Introductions
    Hey everyone ! I have heard numerous sayings that grain is good for hedgies but also have heard it is not something you should look for in their food. Can someone please clarify ?!? thanks :)
  20. Diet and Nutrition
    Hi all, I'm new on here :). I've had little Yuki for 7 weeks (he is just under 7 months old and we bought him from an exotic pet store). The pet store was feeding him Mazuri Insectivore Diet which I was quick to discover is no good and full of bad things. We kept him on it for the first month...
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