How much?

[bonkers4hamsters]

How much food do you give to your hams everyday? Bella has recently started to store all the food when I put it in her bowl whereas she used to just take what she wanted. So I am looking at an amount I should give her everyday, she is a pure ww.

Also, how much do you give your syrians?

And how many mealworms do you give a day?

[Silver]

I give my Pure WW & Pure C one teaspoon of mix per day

I feed Jan more mealworms than amy because she is very old now 2 years 8 months so give Jan 4-5 a day. Amy gets 2 mealworms a day

I have not kept Syrians so can't answer that one

Silver xxx

[bonkers4hamsters]

Thanks! Would you give a young hamster (syrian 9-13 weeks old) more mealworms for the extra protein?

[Silver]

No I would still feed 2 mealworms a day because they will eat more when young & healthy. It's just when they get old they can eat & digest mealworms easier than hamster mix

Silver xxx

[GhostsInSnow]

To be honest I just fill Fudges bowl when it's empty. I've found if I fill it every days he eat picky and just eats the bits she wants and leaves the rest. I do check her bowl every day though and I occasionally check her store too :)

[Lougarry]

I scatterfeed each of mine with about a dessert spoon of food daily plus any extras. I suspect that if you don't feed daily they hoard more as they are not assured of a regular food supply. Also I have a terrible memory so a daily routine works best for me :)

[GhostsInSnow]

Fudge was being stupidly picky when I fed daily even when I was scatter feeding. I've found she's eating better since I started feeding her less regularly but she's a very strange hammie anyway xD and different things work for different hammies.

[bonkers4hamsters]

So would you say a teaspoon of mix for my ww and a couple for my syrian daily?

[Silver]

I "think" people have fed a table spoon for a Syrian a day.

Someone will come along soon who feeds like this

Silver xxx

[Lougarry]

I feed a dessert spoon daily to all mine, regardless of whether they are Syrian, Chinese or Robo.

[bonkers4hamsters]

I will have to see what measuring spoons I have!

[Biyu]

What's a "dessert spoon"? What's that equate to? Over here there's teaspoons tablespoons and if you're lucky soup spoons that are more round then the outher 2 that are more oval towards a point

[Silver]

Table spoon

Silver xxx

[Biyu]

Thankies lol

[Lougarry]

No, a dessert spoon is more than a teaspoon and less than a tablespoon. It's roughly equivalent to 2 teaspoons, wheas a tablespoon is equivalent to 3 teaspoons:
http://www.hintsandthings.co.uk/kitchen/measures.htm
It's about the same as a soup spoon.

I don't use measuring spoons, though. I just have an old metal dessert spoon in the hamster room that I dish it out with :)

[Silver]

Now I've learnt something new today

Thank You Lougarry

Silver xxx

[Hampton Harris]

Hampton eats 2 Bowles of food a day. Is this too much? She's only 6 weeks old

[Lougarry]

My word, that's a lot!!! Have you checked whether she has a big store somewhere that she's putting most of it in?

[Kissa]

Darla my Robo gets a teaspoon a day. Annie did get a table spoon a day but I'm cutting it back because her store was getting large and I didn't want to throw so much food away ;) It's now about 2/3 a table spoon a day (so probably a dessert spoon ;)) and she's not lost weight but now I am not throwing so much stored food out :)

One question, though, are people talked about heaped spoons or flat spoons? I'm talked about flat, or at least as flat as you can get hamster mix in a spoon ;)

[Ellie]

Younger hamsters eat alot more then older ones as they do all there growing in the first 16 weeks, I have a young hamster here at the moment who is probably eating triple what all the others are!!

I have 13 hamsters, 2 dwarfs, 11 syrians. At the moment I am just checking their food daily, if they have a pile of food stored in the corner they don't get fed, but when I am down to their last few bits, I re-top the bowls to the top. If it is coming up to clean-out today I won't feed a day or 2 before as don't want to waste. Some are eating alot more than others so it just depends on the ham!

[Lougarry]

One question, though, are people talked about heaped spoons or flat spoons? I'm talked about flat, or at least as flat as you can get hamster mix in a spoon ;)

In my case, a level dessert spoon :)

[Hampton Harris]

Thanks for all the help. I've just done a spot check on hampton's cage and she had loads of food stored.

Clean cage and only 1 bowl of food

[Kissa]

In my case, a level dessert spoon :)

Hah, I meant to say level when I said flat ;) I blame lack of sleep :p