Jerzy - active, most of the time in search of food. They are curious nocturnal animals that spend a lot of time exploring the surrounding countryside. To keep a hedgehog at home, it should be thoroughly acquainted with the intricacies of their content, namely, that he eats. After all, for the normal development of the animal required complex nutrients.
That hedgehogs eat in nature?
Hedgehogs feed on both plant foods and feed sweetly meat, they are omnivores. Most of their diet consists of insects, slugs, worms, lizards, frogs, snakes, etc. These animals are resistant to poison, so they can eat poisonous Representative easily. Also, if a hedgehog find a bird's nest in range, it will ruin it, can eat the eggs and chicks. Jerzy forests nurses, since the discovery of its fall they eat.
Low intakes of plant foods, namely fruits and berries. If a hedgehog settled in your area, do not worry, because it performs a useful function, namely eating insect pests can ruin a nest of wasps, snakes without any difficulty.
That hedgehogs eat at home?
So that the hedgehog had lived a long and happy life, it is necessary to provide a complete diet at home. Although the hedgehog and it is considered omnivorous, all in a row it should not be fed. For hedgehog detrimental to the use of citrus, dried fruit, salt, spices, milk, nuts, bakery products, etc. Hedgehog diet should be close to the power supply in the wild. Its menu should be varied and include:
- Meat. The diet should be present hedgehog meat raw or cooked form. Feed hedgehogs can: beef, mutton, chicken, horse meat, turkey, mice, frogs. Pork to feed the hedgehogs are not recommended. Meat should be cut into small pieces or make him stuffing. Under natural conditions, hedgehogs consume raw meat, but at home it is recommended to boil the meat or scalded with boiling water. This is necessary in order to disinfect it.
- Insects. The hedgehogs love to enjoy beetles, larvae, worms, grasshoppers, crickets, locust, moths, etc. Insects can be given in raw form or in baked. In the summer, their own collected or acquired insects, it is necessary to bake in the oven, then folded into banks and tightly close the lids.
- Vegetables and fruits. In small quantities of hedge eat tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, sweet peppers, carrots, pears, apples, strawberries, raspberries, etc. The best of all the hedgehog eat a grated carrot.
- Porridge. In the ration of the hedgehog, you can enter buckwheat, rice, peashed, wheat, pearl porridge, but it is necessary to cook them strictly on water without adding spices. In such a porridge you can add mince, bone flour, small insects.
- A fish. In nature, hedgehogs do not feed on fish, but at home the fish can be included in the diet. To feed the hedgehogs is better than fresh marine fish, as the river fish can cause a lack of vitamins.
- Cottage cheese. In the ration of hedgehog, you can enter cottage cheese in a small amount of about half a teaspoon per day.
- Liver, offal. These products must be given in boiled form. Hezhi love the liver, heart, stomach, spleen, light, etc.
- Eggs. Several times a week, chicken or quail eggs, in cheese or boiled form, must be included in the ration of hedgehog, at the rate of 30 grams per meal.
- Potato. You can feed the hedgehog only boiled potatoes. It can be confused by adding fish flour, bone flour, minced meal and shape balls.
Also in the ration of the hedgehog need to introduce greens, namely the sprouted grain, the leaves of the dandelion, etc. Vitamin complexes can be purchased in veterinary pharmacies. It is very important to provide hedgehog clean drinking water, it needs to be changed every day. She must be around the clock.
In order for the hedgehog to develop and lived a long life, it is necessary to provide him with a comprehensive nutrition that contains a sufficient amount of nutrients.
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