Hamster: How to Feed Your Animal Properly

22.10.2023 02:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:22

It is recommended to give rodents a little cottage cheese, a boiled egg, milk, and once a week a small piece of boiled meat.

Many hamsters like small insects - ants, worms, grasshoppers, beetles, locusts.

It is best to buy such “live” food in pet stores.

What to feed your hamster every day

From fruits - apples, pears, apricots and peaches, and from berries - grapes, currants, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, cherry pulp.

Fresh vegetation is very useful for hamsters: lettuce, dandelion, plantain and clover leaves, dill, parsley, beet leaves.

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In winter, greens will replace hay, oat or wheat sprouts for hamsters.

What you should absolutely not give to hamsters

Exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as citrus fruits; Sweets and honey;

Cabbage is very harmful to the stomach of a rodent;

Apricot or peach kernels: These can be fatal to a hamster.

How long can you go without feeding a hamster

But still, if we talk about how long a hamster can live without food, it is not recommended to leave it without food for more than 2-3 days.

Author: Diana Dashkevich Editor internet resource

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  1. What to feed your hamster every day
  2. What you should absolutely not give to hamsters
  3. How long can you go without feeding a hamster