What food do you give your hammies?

[Pinkchi]

Okay I feel like a bit of a mean hammy mummy reading what everyone else gives theirs.....

My Gizmo just had p@h premium hamster food. Oh and lots of treats....but thats about it.

[merita]

This is a very interesting thread. I've only had Koda for a week and a half and he's my first 'baby' so I'm kinda fumbling a bit still. I use the P @ H Hamster Muesli, is that the p@h one everyone is saying is bad? I've looked on the label and there's nothing that says sugar or any of the other sugar synonyms, but there is something called 'syrup' and another thing called 'lucerne'. It doesn't say what kind of syrup but it could be sugar syrup. What is lucerne?

Koda always stuffs his pouches and stores it in his bed, but he does tend to leave the brown lumpy things. I'll take a look in my local sainsburys for HH. There's no Wilkos around here though.

I have bought some packeted treats for him, one is called something like 'Hamster Burger' and I can't remember what the other one's called. He seems to hate anything 'herbaceous' and dried and always leaves the green coloured dried treats. I've mixed up some bits from the cupboard, raisins, pine nuts, chopped walnuts, sunflower and pumpkin seeds and he enjoys that. I've given him a piece of baby corncob today and he loved it. I tried a piece of watermelon the other day and he took a tentative nibble and turned his nose up.

I'll have to think about an occasional bit of scrambled egg or baby rice pudding too, never thought of that.

[Courtney_04]

I feed my new hammie p@h hamster muesli, do you think i should chage to HH as i no a shop that sells them and all the others (Gerty Guinea-Pig etc.)? i want whats best for him

[merita]

I had to call into my local hobbycraft today to get some bits as I make jewellery and native american crafts. There is also a garden centre there that I know has a big 'pet bit' so I thought I'd take a look for some toys for Koda. They also had a large 'feed the birds' bit and were selling tubs of dried mealworms which I bought, and also tubs of "shrimpies" which I didn't as I'm not sure they're ok for hammies. They look like dried shrimps. They had all sorts of hammy foods there, HH, Burgess Supa Hampser (which I bought to try) and others too. I got him some strawberry yoghurt drops as special treats and gave him one after our handling session today (he fell on it like a mad thing lol). I've put a couple of the mealworms in for him, which he hasn't found yet as he's fast asleep.

Would the shrimpies be ok for him?