You can feed fruits. In the wild they would take berries and any ripe fruit that falls to the ground. Just no seeds.... seeds are toxic.

Young hedgehogs would need more food.... but once they reach 4 months, you can stop putting a full bowl and give 2 tablespoons a day. I normally let my hedgehogs finish before refilling the bowl. Less wastage.

The wire cages are bad. Coz hedgehogs can climb.... so if there is a way to climb, they would but they got no sense of proper balance when climbing so once they fall, there is a risk of injuries lah.

Anyway, the colours there are not 100% correct. I would refer to hedgehogcentral on colour morph.

LOL... quilling won't stop lah. 2 months will start to quill... and it would go on for a month or 2. So you need not worry lah. Go and Google up on quilling and look back, we got discuss about this in previous post.

mine.. i only give him the food when the bowl empty... cuz he looks fatter and still dun want to play the wheel...
its like every time i put him on the wheel and he will play play a bit but soon after that dun want to play liao -.-"

and he start to quill...

I give 1 table spoon to my male hedgie also can't finish...

Oh, u are going to give your hoglet away? hmmm... sayang... so cute...

hmm... can eat cat food eh? hehehe, great... can share with my cats d...

Is best you refill up the bowl once it is empty.... but if it doesn't go empty in 48 hours, throw away and refill....

LOL... slow eater I think... My hoglet eat 3 times a day, I blend the dogfood till become powder, then mix with milk, become like mash potatoes looking, she eat 1 teaspoon each time. Today she is 67g haahaha.... 1 day can put about 4g liao.

Yah..... coz I breed to gain tame hedgies for people, also to breed out a different colour. Too bad the different coloured one got eaten, so left this one which someone has booked before I bred my hedgehogs eeheheh.....

Yes, can eat catfood.... but best not those cheap brands and not IAMS.... other high quality brands are ok.

i wonder has anyone bred out pinto in malaysia.

I don't think so coz you need the pinto gene to make it bicolour.... just like the spotted gene with rodents..... 1 parent can give out some pinto offspring coz I think the pinto gene is dominant..... Without at least 1 pinto, you won't get any pintos here.

We are able to get cinnamons, apricots, cinnacots because of mixed genetics through the importation of them into the pet trade..... but some of these animals are imported from thailand or indonesia..... pintos are only available in US I think coz there they do colour breeding....

Hun, one of ur hoglet got eaten??

u mention Indonesia right? but just now I tried to search for some breeder or pet shop that sell hedgehog but... nothin *sigh*

LOL.... looks like you do not know, hedgehogs are not easy to breed like ABC.... there are pros and cons, risk of hoglets getting eaten.... that's why I said before, breed only after you have done tones of research. You must be prepared to do handfeeding..... not many people know about this. I know a few breeders who quit breeding hedgehogs coz they make loses since the females mostly eat up all their young and only leave 1 or 2 alive.... but this depends on the female lah.

Indonesia got.... you just have to know where to look for.... normally the underground pet trade.... gliders and hedgehogs go for like RM50 only.... but if you do not know anyone who can guide you to the pet trading area, then you won't be able to find lah.

yeah I know that but.. my cousin want to buy it but can't find a place to buy... and also I told him before that if he really want to buy hedgie ask him to do some homework... and I ask him not to buy around this... wait till I go back home then accompany him to go... cuz' I'm not sure whether the pet shop there n here is the same.. cuz' I found one pet shop who sell the hedgie... but still I asked him to do homework first....

if i breed i also want to keep it for myself only unless its too many..such cute babies

Ok la... set... next time if i ever want to get any animals, i will first ask u to see if u breed them so i could get tame one...

OMG! she bites you a lot and looks like bite with all her might . Dunno but from my experience thats not a very good sign of a tame hedgie

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Added on December 7, 2007, 5:18 amMy hedgie collection pics k. The special colour mutation usually are NOT FOR SALE

Snowflake champagne




Black eye whites/platinum(except still got very few around 5% of darker quills)




normal salt and pepper supermodel posing


cinnamon(until now still cant get a 100% real cinnamon like my stud here, best one only champagne )


Considering importing pintos from a reputable breeder in America but they say need to quarantine for 3 weeks, the cost are gonna skyrocketed. So i kinda like cancel for now

This post has been edited by max_cavalera: Dec 7 2007, 05:28 AM

The quarantine for 3 weeks is actually long for a hedgie... and yah, price damn high.

LOL.... my hoglet bites for play. Like tug of war.... this came about coz due to handfeeding as I had to separate her early and handfeed with syringe. Playfulness, not really aggression..... so far she is not scared of fingers or hands, which is good. If you hold a tissue paper in front of her, she would hold it in her mouth and tug at it like a little dog.

Actually 2 tablespoons is exactly what i give now
( I said they should always have food in the bowl, i didnt say they should always have a FULL bowl....im crazy, but im not THAT crazy)

1 tbsp at night, by next morning is usually at least 95% finished
then i add roughly another tbsp in the morning before i go to work depending on how much is left in the bowl
the amount he eats in the daytime can vary quite alot from 60% to 90%
then at night the bowl is washed and any leftovers thrown away before again adding food

Altho just putting in 2 tbsp at once is easier, i find going by 2 servings is handy for me to keep an eye on his food intake. There is very little wastage since i add on depending on how much is leftover.
Also as im using a water bowl and not a bottle i need to change the water, so putting 2 tbsp all at once does not save me much time

wow..why do they have to quarantine for such a long time to import a hedgie?

Coz new animals would always have a risk of carrying something contagious that could endanger local wild life. The quarantine is to monitor and make sure no disease or sickness spread openly. If it does have a sickness or disease, it would only affect the quarantine area, then it won't be so bad. Imagine if it brings a deadly virus? Then we mix with our hedgehogs, all later die.... then the virus also infects rabbits, chickens and so on..... so quarantine is basically monitoring their health before completely allowing it to come into our country. All countries got different length of quarantine.

calculated to import 1 single pintos from oversea is around rm2000++ ? whoah crazy. But the best thing is i will have bragging rights , if sell also of course rugi lo people cant afford... T_T

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Added on December 7, 2007, 6:34 pmGuys. Does anyone know if around Klang Valley area has any pet exhibition fair or something? kinda interested to go n see.

This post has been edited by max_cavalera: Dec 7 2007, 06:34 PM

climacool , sorry for the late picture about my huge pipe for my Bo Chai.

haha...good idea..use PVC pipe...my tissue roll din work..haha..i juz finish bathing Gie Gie!!! her 1st bath!!haha...the water full of shit..hahaha have to change water so many times...keep trying to escape..hehe...she likes the cuddling part...hehe...carry her like baby...she sleep there quietly oni...