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Hedgehog feeding

LynLyn Posts: 23,190
in Wildlife gardening
Copied this from Facebook, just in case people are not sure what to feed hedgehogs on, this is not the right food.

Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Mine get Waitrose chicken cat food.

    Devon.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    There's posh.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Mine get worms, slugs and anything else they find for themselves. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • sarinkasarinka Posts: 270
    Can you give them milk? We always used to as kids.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    edited July 2020
    Lyn said:
    Mine get worms, slugs and anything else they find for themselves. 
    Ditto. I know we love our hogs, but I've had hedgehog families in the garden off and on for years. Never felt the need to feed them. It creates dependency. I feel exactly the same about wild birds these days, used to feed them, stopped now and it saves me a fortune. Still have plenty of birds in the garden foraging natural food.
  • GemmaJFGemmaJF Posts: 2,286
    sarinka said:
    Can you give them milk? We always used to as kids.
    Only if you want to kill them. They can't digest milk or bread, they are hedgehogs!
  • sarinkasarinka Posts: 270
    Poor little things, a life without brie.😱

    Ty for the info. 
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    They are the gardener's mate, so the more you feed them, the less they will clean up your garden of snails, ear-wigs and other wigglies.  It's their delight to forage around for food.

    Interesting article @Lyn Thank you.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    ‘Our’ hedgehogs come every night for their little fish of cat biscuits and a drink of fresh water ... but they spend most of their time rootling around in the beds, borders and veg patchpatch ... we get very little slug or snail damage 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    A dish of water is a very good thing to leave out for them, especially in the hot weather. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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