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Originally Posted by AmityvilleHams
That sounds like your food just isn't a good quality food.Shapes and such meant to appeal to humans rarely appear other than in poor quality foods(Kaytee etc).
The food must be natural and contain the necessary nutrients,along with no unsafe ingredients(unspecified biproducts including derivatives and digest and "liver" or animal liver,any artificial dyes,any artificial flavors,any artificial sugars or processed sugars such as maltodextrin,dextrose,and sorbitol,and also no unsafe preservatives which would be BHA/BHT/ethoxyquin which are all known to cause cancer).
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Thanks, that's good to know. I checked the ingredients and the food doesn't contain any of those ingredients except some dye, but I think I will try out a different type of food and do more research to find another high quality food that has the right nutrient balances and such and ideally no dye.
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Originally Posted by cypher
A lot of hamsters won't eat pellets, not knowing which food you use it's hard to say for sure but the pellets are often alfalfa or grass & hams just don't like them so I wouldn't really class that as picky eating.
Ideally you want them to eat everything in the mix so feeding the best quality mix you can is the best thing, not sure where you are but most people in the UK feed Syrians Harry Hamster, some hams will still get picky with some bits in that but most seem to do well on it.
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It looks like the pellets are made from alfalfa, as that is listed in the ingredients. That would make sense then, if hamsters just don't like alfalfa. As I mentioned above I will be looking for another type of food and I'll make sure alfalfa or grass aren't a part of it. Thank you!