LOL.... you got quite an imagination.... heheheh.

Hahaha... just PM me when you are ready loh.... see how it goes. We can't discuss buying and selling here.

Mealworms, what you do is buy RM1 from a petshop. Then put in a container without a cover, and feed it fishfood, dried dogfood or dried catfood and veggies. Feed it for 2 days first before you feed to a hedgehog. We call that gutload.

The canned ones in Malaysia are not fresh.... ugly things hahahah..... and got preservatives I think.....

You don't need to breed them. Just buy from a petshop, follow the steps I just mention. Then if you feel icky at picking a mealworm with your bare hands, use a chopstick or tweezers..... I used to use tweezers but now I gotten used to it so I use my hands.

HAhahah.... if you own a hedgehog, you must not be afraid of feeding insects lah....

Oatmeal is more for breeding... but I just found out that oats can harbour bacteria.... so just feed leafy vegies and fish food is fine.

You won't be saving much... trust me coz I bred before hahahah.... you only save RM1 or RM3.... but it takes a long time to breed and for it to become big and juicy.

You feed veggie and fish food, lagi become bigger than feed oatmeal. And much more nutrition also coz it would make the mealworms have more protein and also vitamins from the veggie.

Coz the breeders keep the females to breed more hedgehogs. Well, I don't hahaha....

Yah... those fish pellet. If you don't use fish pellet, dry dogfood or dry catfood also can.

Erm.... never breed if you do not have the right intentions..... also.... hedgehogs are quite depressing to breed. A female may eat up her young, like what mine did and foster caring is never easy. Keeping it's generation.... not a very good goal for breeding. Stressed hedgehogs would not breed properly, and it cannot breed after it is 2.5 years old but if you did not start breeding before it is 1 year old but after 6 months old, the pregnancy could be fatal and can kill a female hedgehog.... best is only 1 litter every 6 months and it involves careful planning and lots of monitoring.

For me it was never easy. And this is also why the price is high.

For my hoglet, I had to feed her every 3 hours, keep under a warm heat lamp, stimulate it to defecate... also I must make sure she doesn't get bloat and diarrhea..... so breeding should not be taken lightly lah.

I got many pets.... hobby lah.

My hedgehogs, my oldest is Sparky, my snowflake S&P that is 2 years old. Then I have his daughter, Donut that is gonna be 1 year old. Then a male called Crinkles, he is only about 6 months old. Their lifespan is short..... I keep coz of colour too. Hhaha... Crinkles is a Cinnicot, Donut is a normal S&P and Sparky a snowflake S&P.

Breeding hedgehogs needs alot of reading up and research. I had to plan when to breed, count the gestation days, get ready proper stuff just in case my female rejected her hoglets.... well, luckily I was ready.

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Nov 30 2007, 02:54 PM

High protein good mah heheheh.....

You of course need to DIY your own lid. Hedgehogs climb out by climbing onto their hideboxes or wheels.... so it acts like a ladder. If you do not have a hidebox or anything solid for it to climb on, then as long the toyogo box is more than 12 inches in height, then it is safe without a lid.

Could be allergies to the bedding or an infection. Change the bedding to only newspaper or cloth. If bleeding is still occurring after a day, bring to a vet fast.

I just use tissue box LOL....

LOL... cute yah, but got commitment to own one lah....

That little hedgie is going to her new home in another 1.5 weeks. Yay to her.

Yah, do your homework, then sure will be a great experience and a great pet for you. Last time I searched high and low to find my first hedgie, learned alot from the internet, and most alot of my own experience coz 2 years ago, nobody keep hedgehogs openly....

Hedgehogs can cuddle... but got only when it is tame. Mine can heheheh.... actually, out of my 3 adult hedgehogs, only Sparky and Crinkles can handle and hug hug a bit.... Donut can't.... but this little baby hoglet can hahahaha.... very tame. Gosh, the lucky owner gonna take before 18 Dec... I'm gonna miss this sweet little girl.

Today she is 63g.... fast fast put on weight.

Research more on hedgehogs, they eat cat food and insects, lifespan about 5 years to 8 years.... overall they are easy to keep lah but we must do research to understand their behaviour, what can be use for bedding and so on....

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.

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 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....

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.

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.

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.

Crying? LOL.... Does it sound like squeaking? Or like a little bird chirping? Do explain....

Good, feeding with crickets and mealworms is good for a hedgehog. Do introduce some quality dried catfood as it contains vitamins and also more protein for their health. But including crickets and mealworms to their diet is very good.

Do not worry, you just got him right? It will take time for your new hedgie to get used to your smell. They recognize scent.... so since you and your bf are new to him, he will feel insecure.

Nibbling and anointing the cloth is ok, quite normal. You need not be scared of all these little things for now, it is alright.