Hedgehog feeding

Lyn

Copied this from Facebook, just in case people are not sure what to feed hedgehogs on, this is not the right food.

Hostafan1

Mine get Waitrose chicken cat food.

josusa47

There's posh.

Lyn

Mine get worms, slugs and anything else they find for themselves. 

sarinka

Can you give them milk? We always used to as kids.

GemmaJF

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.

GemmaJF

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!

sarinka

Poor little things, a life without brie.😱

Ty for the info. 

tuikowhai34

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.

Dovefromabove

‘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 🤞 

Lyn

A dish of water is a very good thing to leave out for them, especially in the hot weather.