Feeding hamsters: you can and can not

Feeding hamsters should be balanced. This means that it will include not only the finished dry food that forms the basis of the diet, but also other products. In particular, the following products can be given to a hamster.

Cereals, nuts and seeds. Cereals can be given wheat, oats, barley,buckwheat, oats, lentils. They are given in dry form; porridges boiled on water without salt and seasonings, they feed sick and weak animals. From nuts you can give peanuts, hazelnuts, cashews, walnuts. You can also give hamster melon, pumpkin and sunflower seeds and sesame seeds.

Vegetables, fruits and berries. Feeding hamsters must includeFresh fruit, berries and vegetables - a source of vitamins and moisture. From berries you can give currants, gooseberries, strawberries, cherries without cherries, blueberries. Of fruits - apple, pear, apricot, melon, peach, banana, grapes, plum (in small quantities). Also hamsters with pleasure eat dried fruits - dried apples and pears, raisins, dried apricots, banana chips.

Most of the vegetables are given to the hamster in raw form. You can treat your pet with a pumpkin,carrots, bell peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, radishes, zucchini, zucchini, beets, squash, turnips, green beans, fresh corn, Chinese cabbage, broccoli, fresh peas, young peas in pods. Occasionally and in small quantities, you can give cauliflower, refined dog rose and celery. Some vegetables (pumpkin, carrots, beets and peas) can be given and boiled, cooked for a short time and without salt.

Greens, leaves and sprouts. Feeding hamsters can also includesprouts of oats, wheat, bamboo and alfalfa. From the green you can give salad, dill, parsley, plantain leaves, dandelion leaves, nettle, clover. Still hamsters eat leaves of fruit trees (apple, cherry, pear), as well as other hardwood varieties (ash, beech, maple, willow, poplar, oak, birch, walnut).

All vegetables, fruits and berries that you give to a hamster must be fresh, not overgrown and not spoiled. Plants for a hamster need to be collected away from roads and industrial plants. Any vegetable food should be thoroughly washed before giving the hamster.

Feeding hamsters also provides a protein component. It can be boiled chicken or leanBoiled fish without seasonings and salt, low-fat dairy products (yogurt without additives and sugar, cottage cheese, kefir, all fat content is not more than 1%), boiled chicken or quail egg. Rarely give a live food: butterflies, grasshoppers, flour worms, earthworms, dried gammarus. Any live food needs to be purchased at a pet store! Protein products are given to a hamster 2-3 times a week (naturally, not all at once, but some one).

there is a number of products that are not recommended to include in food hamsters. They can not be called unequivocally forbidden, butthere is a great risk that they will cause irreparable damage to your pet's health. These include cheese (especially fatty and salted varieties), acorns, Brazil nuts, persimmons, white bread, potatoes, and ready-made feeds for other rodents and birds.

Finally, there are products that categorically can not be given to hamsters. These include:

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  salt, spices, sugar both in pure form, and in the composition of other products;
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  fried, fatty, smoked food, any food from your table;
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  Exotic fruits (including pineapple, kiwi, avocado, pomegranate, citrus), watermelon;
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  fruit juices;
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  leeks, garlic, mint, cabbage (white and red), sorrel;
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  branches of coniferous trees, tulip, all plants and herbs collected within the city;
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  cream, sour cream, milk, butter;
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  muesli, breakfast cereals, kozinaki;
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  almonds, apricot and cherry bones (contain cyanide acid, which is deadly for hamsters);
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  peel and eyes of raw potatoes;
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  sausages, sausages, fatty meat;
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  dry macaroni products;
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  mushrooms;
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  honey;
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  black bread;
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  bloodworm and insects caught in nature;
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  chocolate, ice cream, biscuits and any other sweets.

Correct food for hamsters - one of the guarantees of their health. It is very important to know what foods to give a hamster can, and which - absolutely not.