Hegehog diet

[beepig]

saw this young heghog las niught mooching under hive. Do they eat dead bees

 

[bjosephd]

Probably anything meaty they can get their hands on.

We used to always feed our local spikey hogs cat food.

 

[bjosephd]

Double post

 

[Millet]

By all means feed them but nothing with fish in it as it will kill them eventually, dog food is a far better option and no milk just plain water in a little bowl..also they are not breeding yet so that will not be a young one, it will be last years young though.

 

[Karsal]

They also love peanuts. High energy food for them

 

[linoleum bonypart]

Why does fish kill them surely protein is protein

 

[Millet]

They also love peanuts. High energy food for them

It's a Hedgehog NOT a Squirrel ..

 

[Millet]

Why does fish kill them surely protein is protein

It must be because the fish drag them under water and drowns them.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

rescued a hedgehog that had wandered out too early and was caught in a cold snap some years ago - kept it in a box in the house for over a month - it fared well on a diet of catfood and water. Found out two things -
A)they're noisy little blighters when they want to be
B)For such small quantities, their crap really does stink

 

[Millet]

rescued a hedgehog that had wandered out too early and was caught in a cold snap some years ago - kept it in a box in the house for over a month - it fared well on a diet of catfood and water. Found out two things -
A)they're noisy little blighters when they want to be
B)For such small quantities, their crap really does stink

Do you have PC or internet issues..

Instead of asking advice on a bee forum just google Hedgehog rescue .
Even i can do that.


Ps not you jenky by the way.

 

[BrianO]

Beautifull creatures... Sadly in serious decline in both UK and Ireland due to increase in intensive farming, destruction of hedgerow habitat.

 

[Dusty Rhodes]

Disappointing thread.

When I read, "Hedgehog Diet", I was looking for some interesting recipes.

Dusty

 

[Tremyfro]

Disappointing thread.

When I read, "Hedgehog Diet", I was looking for some interesting recipes.

Dusty

Just what I thought....but more...Why would people want to eat hedgehogs?

 

[Millet]

Just what I thought....but more...Why would people want to eat hedgehogs?

They do look like a rabbit when skinned but i doubt they taste the same.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Beautifull creatures... Sadly in serious decline in both UK and Ireland due to increase in intensive farming, destruction of hedgerow habitat.

................. and the massive increase in the badger population - brock's two favourite snacks? hedgehog and bumblebee nests.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

They do look like a rabbit when skinned but i doubt they taste the same.

not bad at all according to my grandfather who used to share a meal with the local Welsh gypsies when they were passing through and camped up on the moorland near his grandparent's farm back in the early 1920's.

Handy - as they come with a plentiful supply of toothpicks

 

[madasafish]

never tasted one.

Please advise how to cook and skin please...

 

[dpearce4]

the best way is baked in clay in an open fire that has gone to embers. the clay stops them burning and also when u remove them from the clay it takes all the spines and skin with it.

 

[REDWOOD]

the best way is baked in clay in an open fire that has gone to embers. the clay stops them burning and also when u remove them from the clay it takes all the spines and skin with it.

Yep That's how I was told how they cook them.

 

[REDWOOD]

Slug pellets are the biggest killers of hedgehogs, don't use them just put a container of beer in the ground, the slugs get p!$$ed and full in the container and drown. Better to see a p!$$ed hedgehog than a dead one