@dappledshade , let me know how you get on with the school (when they reopen of course).
I filled the dish twice last night, the second lot had gone by 9.30pm. Any late arrivals will have had to have made do with the hoggy biscuits. I can just imagine the grumbling 🦔
I know not everyone has a thermal imaging camera (!), but please, please spread the word about checking for hedgehogs before strimming. Even if you or your friends and relations think you don't have hedgehogs in your garden, please check anyway. My local rescue has already had 2 hogs put to sleep in recent days due to possible strimmer injuries and also rat glue traps (but that's another story).
They circumnavigate our garden which has a high bank around three sides (this area was used for gravel extraction so garden levels are all over the place.
And they do actually use it. This part of the bank is around 3/4 ft high and only about the same in depth at that point so quite a severe slope.
Haven't posted for a fair while but thought i would come on here to post about feeding hoggies in lockdown. I run a rescue but have had very few hogs in so far this year.
Hoggies will get most of their food from foraging so your food would just be a standby or top-up, so don't worry if you run out of food to give them. Hoggies will happily eat any kind of meat flavoured cat food, wet or dry, and wet dog food. Chum loaf is always acceptable, as are supermarket kitten biscuits. They usually aren't keen on fish flavours but it won't harm them. Dry dog food kibble is perfectly edible but tends to be in big biscuits and they have tiny teeth and mouths so can't eat them. Please don't feed them dry mealworms (it can make them very ill) or peanuts or sunflower seeds.
The most useful thing you can do for your hoggie friends is to plant a wide range of plants to encourage the kind of food they like (crunchy with many legs, or caterpillars) and not the kind they shouldn't have (slugs and snails), and to provide water even in the hottest weather.
Glad to hear your rescue isn't too busy @Frankie6 My local one is still accepting patients, they have a system in place for leaving the hogs in a ready made container on the door step, together with the necessary paperwork for completion 🦔 Have you had a quiet winter?
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Will see if the school would let us do that.
I filled the dish twice last night, the second lot had gone by 9.30pm. Any late arrivals will have had to have made do with the hoggy biscuits. I can just imagine the grumbling 🦔
Even if you or your friends and relations think you don't have hedgehogs in your garden, please check anyway. My local rescue has already had 2 hogs put to sleep in recent days due to possible strimmer injuries and also rat glue traps (but that's another story).
They circumnavigate our garden which has a high bank around three sides (this area was used for gravel extraction so garden levels are all over the place.
And they do actually use it. This part of the bank is around 3/4 ft high and only about the same in depth at that point so quite a severe slope.
Hoggies will get most of their food from foraging so your food would just be a standby or top-up, so don't worry if you run out of food to give them.
Hoggies will happily eat any kind of meat flavoured cat food, wet or dry, and wet dog food. Chum loaf is always acceptable, as are supermarket kitten biscuits. They usually aren't keen on fish flavours but it won't harm them. Dry dog food kibble is perfectly edible but tends to be in big biscuits and they have tiny teeth and mouths so can't eat them.
Please don't feed them dry mealworms (it can make them very ill) or peanuts or sunflower seeds.
The most useful thing you can do for your hoggie friends is to plant a wide range of plants to encourage the kind of food they like (crunchy with many legs, or caterpillars) and not the kind they shouldn't have (slugs and snails), and to provide water even in the hottest weather.
My local one is still accepting patients, they have a system in place for leaving the hogs in a ready made container on the door step, together with the necessary paperwork for completion 🦔
Have you had a quiet winter?