I want to ask something about hamster food...

As advised by this thread, I bought Silius. I rried looking for others but they didn't sell.

There's a TON of 'living world' brands though, considerably cheaper than Silius with larger packs. I've learned that large packs don't always mean it's good for my hamster...

And she's not particularly fond of Silius either.

So, what about it?

Yeah it's quite recent.

Oh, sorry. My question was about the quality of foods. I don't mind paying a bit more for better food.

Silius contains oilseed byproducts, germinated (and dried) seeds, hamster pallets and can't remember the other things. Made in Netherlands (!!) and stuff like that. It smells quite like thyme.

My hamster has a tendency to be very picky, first she'll eat all the corn and slowly only things changed.

I tried out from japanese brand earlier...she ignored the wheat.

P.S The most common brand I see around me is "living world", any thoughts on that?

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Jun 23 2008, 10:41 PM

Um, yes. Oops. I got the name wrong, my bad

I think a little bit of egg is good for your ham. Just not too much and the fella might hoard it...you don't want it to hoard egg.

Slius is a bit pricey though. So tempted to buy the Living World one (you mean no one has ever heard of it???) but I look also no confidence.

EDIT: To force my ham to eat the green cubes I put them right in front of her house. And she'd nibble.

For some reason she disliked the foamy looking one.

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Jun 23 2008, 10:56 PM

I also want to discuss something about my hamster's fur. She has three legs and no, I didn't buy her. Someone cannot take care of her anymore and passed it to me. Eventually I changed the cedar to corn cob things like that.

People always say don't bathe the hamster with water. So I bought sand for her...she don't want to roll in it. Eventually one side of the hamster becomes so mucked with oil she started to lose hair.

And that's the point where we usually use very warm water and bathe. My mom helps, since she don't like mine.

She always sleep on the oily side too. Strange ham

Lose more fur than growing back. It is much better the days after we bathe her...then the muck problem starts again @_@

One section looks quite tall...won't the hamster get hurt? O_O

I always wonder how they climb up and down the vertical ones

The blue ball and the green upright tube...or is it going to be placed sideways?

No no I saw the wheel it won't be sideways. It's...90 degrees upward O_o. Safe or not ar?

Eh speaking of brush...can't even brush my hamster...it's that mucked up. Look like no choice but to bathe it tomorrow @_@

Yes. Only one side of the hamster is hopelessly oily. The legless side...

My hamster is a tricycle; 3 legs only.

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Jun 24 2008, 12:00 AM

I don't have any pictures of my hammy, I'm afraid. And my camera's temperamental too.
Just imagine that one side of the hamster has pristine fur and another a complete oily wreck, and on the hind leg of the wrecked side is missing.

She, actually. Her name is Bean.

The story is like this. Someone else in the neighbourhood bought two hamsters, mother and daughter (Bean). When little Bean was a little baby, the hind leg mysteriously shriveled up and dropped off. When they bought it, she was already 3 legged.
Then cannot take care of the hamsters anymore, got into a fight and can only keep one so Bean was given to me; cage and everything.

When we first got her we noticed that she was quite grubby especially on one side, so gave her a bath....

Then we noticed that one side will eventually turn very grubby, always. The one with no leg...it was to the point she started losing fur...so occasionally after 1 week or two we will bathe again.

I tried to brush (with powder) but it was soooo mucked up it gets tangled and the hamster was not happy with me trying to get it untangled. I tried sand bath and...the sand sticks to her instead (only roll in once or twice then completely ignores it).

Oooh... I see.

I tried helping her bathe before and she clamped on me. No blood but she clamped for quite a bit. Very gentle but very timid hamster who will drop her food most of the time...

Whenever we take her out of the cage she eventually gets nervous and try to get back home.

Non scented talcum powder or rice power can ar? She don't like the toothbrush too.

So Slius is worth the money...that's good to know. The pack was really, really small compared to the others.

P.S The clamping happened during the sandbath. She was very quiet with the water one.

This post has been edited by Sophiera: Jun 24 2008, 12:39 AM

Meanwhile if I don't have the pet powder, how do I help her have a sandbath? gently sprinkle on her?