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01-27-2008, 03:20 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 362
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Home made mix....
I know the vast majority of hamster keepers on here feed Harry Hamster, but Herbert really doesn't seem to like a fair few of the ingredients.
The black things and the alfalfa pellets he even carried back upstairs the other day, leaving them in a handy pile for me to take away, cheeky boy.
I would like to have a go at making up my own mix if it's at all possible..... so what would everyone consider to be 'essential ingredients' in any hamster staple diet? I mean dry foods only here. (He gets a range of small portions of fresh foods regularly.)
Thanks.
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Love Hannah x
...plus Herbert, Tiny, Ping, Teacake, Muffin and Biscuit.
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01-27-2008, 04:20 PM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: H'pool
Posts: 252
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I use a good hamster mix as a base, and then add in things on the shunamite mix, like small peices of dried pasta, barley, split peas, lentils (basically a dry soup mix), and then you can add budgie seed and some cat/kitten food.
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01-28-2008, 01:17 AM
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PM Fluffy for custom title
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Leicester UK
Posts: 3,751
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Mine always leave the black biscuit things in Harry Hamster and almost always leave the black pellets - I find feeding them dry mix every two days instead of every day helps them eat some of the bits they like less (some breeders feed dry mix only every 3 days but that seems a bit long to me).
There was a great thread on another forum about making your own mix - sadly it got lost when that forum crashed last summer.
(Sorry - just realised how unhelpful this post is ).
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01-28-2008, 03:22 AM
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Gloucestershire, UK
Posts: 718
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I use a good base mix, and then add: budgie seed, cat biscuits, crushed up dog biscuits, a fruit and fibre cereal or shreddies, porridge oats, P@H dried vegetables.
I quite like the idea of the pasta and lentils however, I might have to give that a go!
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01-28-2008, 11:04 AM
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Adult Hamster
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 362
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Thanks for the ideas! I definitely think I'm going to give it a go. I was reading the ingredients of HH today and I don't think it will be that hard to do tbh.
I'll use the HH I have as a base, but I think I'll look out for a different base when this lot's gone.
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Love Hannah x
...plus Herbert, Tiny, Ping, Teacake, Muffin and Biscuit.
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01-29-2008, 12:56 PM
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Hamster Overlord
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Posts: 709
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he carried them away and left them in a pile to hoard it like a hamster does!
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