Hedgehog Utopia
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Hedgehog Utopia
I know some off you won't get to see hogs in your gardens so thought I would share how blessed we are..
We feed and water them every night and have been for the last couple of years.
These six were this evening about 9:20. Watched them come running from their hides to the food.
Scratchy the male has been every night for the last four weeks lucky hog I was mixing some bait in my shed last Friday, already had one inside by my feet then this one turned up. Don't you just love em.
Andy
We feed and water them every night and have been for the last couple of years.
These six were this evening about 9:20. Watched them come running from their hides to the food.
Scratchy the male has been every night for the last four weeks lucky hog I was mixing some bait in my shed last Friday, already had one inside by my feet then this one turned up. Don't you just love em.
Andy
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Really good to see
glad you'r helping the little fellas out. id love to see more of them about.
glad you'r helping the little fellas out. id love to see more of them about.
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Sad lack of them down this way.
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Have a soft spot for hedgepigs, Dawn and I used to run a little rescue centre from home for them, had about 20 of them one winter, nice little things!
Cheers Alan
Cheers Alan
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Great to see a family like that. I have 3 or 4 at the end of my garden, my Jack Russell drives them mad
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If this was Pikeys Pit everyone would be going "mmm dinner".
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Kev Berry wrote: ↑Wed May 23 2018 08:15 -I didnt know song thrushes ate slug pellets as well, Kev!
Cheers Alan
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Here's the other in the shed with me.
As their quite fussy with some foods and we want to give them a varied diet as possible.
Although at dusk they come running from their beds, they do go off foraging after a quick munch and a drink
Which is good to see, it's like they use us for breakfast before they start their night shift
No slug problem in our garden. Just wished they could work out that Hosta's collect snails.
We don't know how many others come into the garden as theirs always one or two showing on the camera
Through the night.
The most we have seen is seven together.
Hopefully we will get to see some babies this year, so far they have been camera shy.
Andy
Alan ref food did you or anyone else that feeds them have any recommendations that you found they like?As their quite fussy with some foods and we want to give them a varied diet as possible.
Although at dusk they come running from their beds, they do go off foraging after a quick munch and a drink
Which is good to see, it's like they use us for breakfast before they start their night shift
No slug problem in our garden. Just wished they could work out that Hosta's collect snails.
We don't know how many others come into the garden as theirs always one or two showing on the camera
Through the night.
The most we have seen is seven together.
Hopefully we will get to see some babies this year, so far they have been camera shy.
Andy
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cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Wed May 23 2018 08:52 -they eat the snails that ate the pellets ---ya feckin drongo
nice to see you back Alan
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Cyprio wrote: ↑Wed May 23 2018 09:11 -Andy, cat food that doesn't contain fish is generally accepted as ok for hogs, we used to mix that with a bit of waterHere's the other in the shed with me.
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Alan ref food did you or anyone else that feeds them have any recommendations that you found they like?
As their quite fussy with some foods and we want to give them a varied diet as possible.
Although at dusk they come running from their beds, they do go off foraging after a quick munch and a drink
Which is good to see, it's like they use us for breakfast before they start their night shift
No slug problem in our garden. Just wished they could work out that Hosta's collect snails.
We don't know how many others come into the garden as theirs always one or two showing on the camera
Through the night.
The most we have seen is seven together.
Hopefully we will get to see some babies this year, so far they have been camera shy.
Andy
Kev Berry wrote: ↑Wed May 23 2018 09:28 -Thanks mate, just got back from a holiday to Turkey with both girls and their fellas, great place to go for Sun. fishing, water sports etc and fantasizing over the the female airport security with machine guns and how I would promise to do as I was told...exactly as I was told!cookiesdaughtersdad wrote: ↑Wed May 23 2018 08:52 -they eat the snails that ate the pellets ---ya feckin drongo
nice to see you back Alan
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They do like peanut butter! Lol
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One of them found the Hosta escargot last night
Poor camera was on plant setting not hogs
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Cyprio wrote: ↑Thu May 24 2018 09:44 -Bloody camera's ya just can't rely on them
One of them found the Hosta escargot last night
Poor camera was on plant setting not hogs
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Got some little houses and pigs in my garden. leave them alone as much as possible but see them most weeks.
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We found a couple of babies by the side of a busy road in broad daylight, took them to a wildlife sanctuary and a fortnight later they rang us and asked if we wanted them back,we had them and released them onto our paddocks
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Last season a lad on the LAS forum posted a photo of a nice Perch around the three-pound mark. And also a photo of a Hedgehog that he saw along the way, more or less to a man everyone commented on the "Hog" and not the fish. That to me speaks volumes, nice Perch ten a penny the little "Hogs" much less so. Cracking photo's gents.
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Can’t remember last time I seen a live hedgehog lovely wee creatures
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This thread's prompted me to dig out my trail cam and check that the run under the fence was made by a hedgehog and not rats! I knew something had used it last night because I'd strimmed the grass weeds yesterday and covered the hole up. Something had pushed its way through. Sure enough it was a little hedegpig. A bit camera shy though.