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Tips from the Veterinarian: How and What to Feed Your Hamster
12.06.2023 23:00
Updated: 13.05.2024 21:25
Hamsters are small rodents that are easy to care for. In order for the animal to live a long and healthy life, it is important to monitor its diet.
How to properly feed your hamster
The best diet for rodents is a grain mixture and green food - this is what they eat in nature. Seeds of wheat, oats, and corn are suitable as grain. You can feed hamsters watermelon, pumpkin, sunflower seeds, beans, peas. Infrequently, but you can give walnuts, pine nuts, cashews, peanuts.
Feed the hamster twice a day, and the main portion is given in the evening. If a hamster is trying to bury food in a secluded place in the cage, he should not be allowed to do this.
Feed can spoil and become the cause of various diseases. It is better to reduce the amount of food.
How to feed a hamster
Certainly not from a faucet. It is better to give him boiled or pure spring water at room temperature. Young animals and female hamsters during the bearing and feeding of offspring will benefit from table mineral water without gas.
You need to change the water every day.
What absolutely can not be given to hamsters
Watermelon, citrus fruits, exotic fruits (kiwi, persimmon, pineapple, pomegranate, avocado and others), mushrooms, acorns, red beans, branches of coniferous trees, apricot pits, peaches, plums, cherries are contraindicated for hamsters.
