How Much How Often Should You Feed Your Hamster ♥️
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How Much How Often Should You Feed Your Hamster ♥️
A Frequent question I am asked is,
How much should I feed my hamster and how often should I feed them? A lot of websites that will say a bunch of different things.
Some people will say you should feed your hamster daily.
Or you should always keep your hamster's food just topped up.
Keeping your hamster’s food topped up is more likely for them to become ‘picky Eaters’ and affect their overall nutrition.
Being a picky eater your hamster will choose the food they like, leaving the rest and missing out on the nutrients they need.
My old mum always used to say.
Two things, The first was, “Stop calling me old”.
The Second….” Eat your vegetables”.
At the time I thought she was being unkind and making me eat stuff I did not like.
Now I know she was making sure I got all the nutrients to make me big and strong.
Its the same for your hamster.
Don’t give them the choice to leave the food they do not like.
The schedule I use is to feed hamsters one to two tablespoons every two to three days.
I think this is a great method because it does give your hamster time to eat everything in their dish.
Hamsters can be picky eaters, even with this method sometimes.
You may have to go a little bit longer until refilling their dish.
To prevent a picky eater, the best way is basically fill up their dish one to two tablespoons and then wait until the dish is completely empty.
Your hamster will never starve themselves,
they eventually will eat everything in the dish.
I have modified this method recently to suit my hamsters.
Now my Syrians get one tablespoon every other day.
My Roborovski gets one tablespoon every three days because of how slow she eats.
My Syrians eat everything a lot faster.
That's why I give my Robo a little bit more time to eat everything,
just because she's such a slow eater.
Then on the opposite days that I feed my hamster, I give them vegetables.
This is something a lot of people are kind of scared and wary to give so often
because they think that giving your hamster vegetables
that often is going to cause an upset stomach or diarrhoea.
This is true but also not true at the same time.
If you have a brand new hamster and you're feeding them 17 new vegetables in one day,
then of course they're going to get a upset stomach and possibly get diarrhoea.
However, if you slowly introduce your hamster to new vegetables
and increase the amount slowly, it gives them a chance to build up a tolerance to these vegetables.
Vegetables are very healthy.
They have lots of nutrients and minerals.
It is good to feed them every other day or once a day,
Rather than just giving them vegetables once a week.
TREATS
When it comes to things like treats and how often you feed them,
it really just depends on the type of treat.
There's healthy treats and then there are really unhealthy treats.
A healthy treat could be baby food or a Gerber puff treat,
something with really low sugar.
That could be given almost once a day or every other day just because it's pretty healthy.
These are low in fats and sugars.
Whereas something like a yogurt drop should be fed maybe no more than once a week just because it is filled with sugar.
This is the schedule that has worked best for me and my hamsters.
Of course, it might not work for your hamsters because all hamsters are different.
Some will eat faster,
some will eat slower.
It honestly just depends on the hamster itself.
Just need to watch and see how long it takes for them to eat all of their food.
Thanks for watching.
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