Great news Tim, at last you know hes had a feast before he goes off on his travels. Do you have any hogboxes in the garden for them to possibly hibernate in? I have 2 at the moment, 1 is in regular use and the other has only been in situ for a couple of weeks so fingers crossed it will be "discovered" soon.
No, just the food hut. My garden is very small (modern housing develoment), so my hogs just come, feed, and go. I'd love to put in a hog box, but being such a small garden, I fear any resident hog would be disturbed too much for example mowing the lawn at weekends. Also, being such a small garden, it doesnt have the space for the untidy areas (ie fallen leaf mounds) that hogs love.
with a pond you can make a slip way for them to climb out or shelving so hedgehogs and frogs etc can get out.put a small dish of water out(change water freg) so they can drink from that.
you can always get details of a hedgehog carer or rescue centre from www.thehedgehog.co.uk or ask on http://www.hedgehoghelp.co.uk/ that way you can always get helpo and advice at any time of day or night
Morning peeps, Just found this site looking for what to do in the same situation. I pulled a full grown one out of my garden pond this morning. It was exhausted.
So, we placed it in a dry bowl, kept it away from strong light and animals. Placed a small amount of fresh cat meat in with it, and left it alone for half an hr.
It spent some time shaking and lying on one side. However, after 1 1/2 hrs, it had eaten all the food and had perked up back to normal.
As we live next to miles of open fields, we let it go free into the fields.
So glad that you found it Alan Can you get some plastic covered chicken wire and make a sort of scramble net, maybe over some logs or rocks at the edge of the pond, so that if this happens again the hedgehogs can climb out.
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Great news Tim, at last you know hes had a feast before he goes off on his travels.
Do you have any hogboxes in the garden for them to possibly hibernate in? I have 2 at the moment, 1 is in regular use and the other has only been in situ for a couple of weeks so fingers crossed it will be "discovered" soon.
with a pond you can make a slip way for them to climb out or shelving so hedgehogs and frogs etc can get out.put a small dish of water out(change water freg) so they can drink from that.
you can always get details of a hedgehog carer or rescue centre from www.thehedgehog.co.uk or ask on http://www.hedgehoghelp.co.uk/ that way you can always get helpo and advice at any time of day or night
anybody got any info on hogboxs i,ll put some up the allotment, what are they like and how to make please
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Morning peeps, Just found this site looking for what to do in the same situation. I pulled a full grown one out of my garden pond this morning. It was exhausted.
So, we placed it in a dry bowl, kept it away from strong light and animals. Placed a small amount of fresh cat meat in with it, and left it alone for half an hr.
It spent some time shaking and lying on one side. However, after 1 1/2 hrs, it had eaten all the food and had perked up back to normal.
As we live next to miles of open fields, we let it go free into the fields.
Good luck hoggy
I'm glad you found it Alan, and it has recovered. Good thinking giving it some food to get its strength back up.
Perhaps a bowl of water left out for those with no pond or with steep sided ponds could help in case of future visits
So glad that you found it Alan
Can you get some plastic covered chicken wire and make a sort of scramble net, maybe over some logs or rocks at the edge of the pond, so that if this happens again the hedgehogs can climb out.
http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/garden-hazards.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.