Quiko Hedgehog Food: High quality dry food for hedgehogs
- Normal price
- 20,49 €
- Special price
- 20,49 €
- Normal price
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- Unit price
- 6,83 €per kg
Immediately available
- Nutritious complete food for free-living hedgehogs
- For year-round feeding and as a support for wintering
- Balanced feed for young and old animals
- With insects and egg cookies for protein requirements
- With vitamins and trace elements
- Reclosable - optimum freshness guarantee
Quiko Hedgehog Food - Dry food: 500 g and 3 kg
Quiko Hedgehog Food is a high-quality complete food that has been specially developed to meet the needs of hedgehogs. The Quiko Hedgehog Food contains high-quality insects, shrimps, meat and bee honey. Vitamins and trace elements as well as egg whites with extra protein round off this balanced food.
What and when do hedgehogs eat extra food?
Hedgehogs are wild and free-living rodents that can easily find sufficient food for most of the year, but there are times when they are happy to eat extra food. Especially in spring and late fall.
In both seasons, the natural food supply is not particularly large. While neither ripe fruit nor insects close to the ground are available in large numbers in spring, there is again a lack of food in late fall after the natural crop rotation - especially as other small animals compete strongly with the hedgehogs for the increasingly scarce food supply at this time in preparation for hibernation.
In spring, the hedgehog's own reserves are used up from the winter break. Hedgehogs need sufficient new food for the new feeding and reproduction period - which is not always available in sufficient quantities, especially after frosty or prolonged winters.
Hedgehogs give birth to their young in the second half of the year. Hedgehogs' food requirements are particularly high during the first breeding period. As hedgehogs usually give birth to several young, there is direct competition for food between the young hedgehogs. There is not always enough food available naturally to get all the young through the winter.
Quiko: Over 50 years of quality - Made in Germany.
Complete food for hedgehogs
Add approx. 4 tablespoons of Quiko Hedgehog Food to a shallow dish every day. Add some fresh water in a second bowl, but no milk! Feed some raw mince or lean beef several times a week. Twisted beef heart, offal and fresh, unsalted fish are also suitable. Mealworms should be fed as a special treat. Scrambled eggs (without fat) and small pieces of sweet fruit are also a welcome change. Please note that hedgehogs are nocturnal animals and only eat in the evening!