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Old 04-06-2015, 01:46 AM   #11
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Default Re: Is my dwarf ham diet adequate?

That`s why I bought a pestle & mortar cypher. It`s great because I pop in an extruded biscuit or one of the science selective heart shaped biscuits, give it a light `tap` and it breaks the biscuit up into little bite-sized pieces! I use it to mash up nuts too!
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Old 04-06-2015, 02:38 AM   #12
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My hams both love the HH pieces and eating them keeps them busy seeing as it takes a while lol! But I think once I run out I might stop using HH and find an alternative. I just worry because when I stopped feeding it to Nimbus and only fed dwarf supa hamster he got SUPA bored of it and stopped eating as much. But I'm sure if I find other alternatives to keep him happy I'll stop using HH
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Old 04-06-2015, 03:36 AM   #13
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That`s the beauty of mixing a couple of foods together. Say, Burgess Supahamster, add some biscuits from the science selective, add some Canary seed and wean them off HH if you feel they only eat parts of it. Thing is though, if they like the HH, then it might be better to stick with it and just break up any larger biscuits in it? x
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Old 04-09-2015, 12:01 PM   #14
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I haven't been too impressed with what's out there for dwarf hamsters. The ones I am looking after were using ordinary Asda hamster food when they came to me but they didn't eat any of the big artificial lumps. I swapped them to Jr farm food for dwarfs, hoping it would be like farm feast for Syrian hamsters which is full of seeds... I gave them some of that before I changed their food and they went mad over the seeds, I just picked out the banana and the bits of dried root veg. But the Jr farm for dwarfs has a smaller range of ingredients and they leave a lot of it behind including the little heart shaped lumps which I think contain most of the protein so I am disappointed with it. They still like seeds best out of anything
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Old 04-10-2015, 02:07 AM   #15
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herbi. I bought four bags of the JR Farm dwarf food from Zooplus when I adopted my Russian hybrid from Pets At Home and he likes it, although like you, I noticed that he only eats the heart shaped extruded biscuits if I break them up and there are other elements in the mix he never eats. The canary seed (millet seeds) always go first! This mix also has green mung beans in it, so I`m wondering when his packs are finished, I may just buy a bag of Canary seed from the pet shop, add some mung beans (available from the supermarket) and add these to Burgess Supahamster which he also gets with science selective and millet spray.

That way, he`s getting the seeds he enjoys without the waste. x
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Canary seed & millet are 2 different things RH, canary seed is actually a grass seed, I think that's the stuff mine always leave!
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Must be the millet then! It`s the small brown linseed my Chubs leaves. Shame as the oils are supposed to be good in linseed. x
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Old 04-10-2015, 03:58 PM   #18
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I've been to Pets@home this aft (any excuse ) and checked out bird seed after reading Racinghamster's post. I reckon if you were going to supplement a dwarf hamster mix with seeds the best one would be P@H budgie mix as its main ingredient is yellow millet, the rest of the ingredients looked good too. They also do big sprays of millet for next to nothing which I didn't realise before. I've got happy hamsters fiddling with their millet sprays tonight; oh, and one loony one asleep under the wardrobe after too much free-roaming.....
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Old 04-11-2015, 12:51 AM   #19
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I`ll bet they are enjoying the millet sprays! I buy a bag of them for £1.00 from a small pet supplier in my local town for the wild birds and Chubs gets half! He shreds it fast but he only gets about an inch long piece at a time or he wouldn`t eat his mix! x
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