Hedgehogs

Froglet

Please do exactly what lost in rates did.Sign up with our wonderful hedgehog advice forum and ask on there.They will give you lots of friendly advice and find a local carer for you to get him/her checked over,and possibly take in and overwinter,unless you are prepared to do it yourself.300 grams is way too small and he will not put enough weight on before the weather turns really cold and he hibernates . He will certainly die then.

http://www.hedgehoghelp.co.uk/index.php?board=2.0

Well done for feeding him,please continue even if you catch this little one as there is usually more than one.

Busy-Bee_6

Thanks Froglet

I'd been looking at the Epping Forest website and found your link was part of them. That really helped because I could then trust what I was reading.

Anyway long story short, it turns out we had 2 small hoggies and they've both been taken to a carer who will overwinter them and I'm really looking forward to releasing them back in my garden in the spring Big happy smile

Froglet

That's really good news,busy bee,well done. These precous adorable creatures need our help ,especially at this time of year.Their mothers really don't have a lot of sense,giving birth to them so late in the year(or perhaps we should blame their father!!)

The site is wonderful,helped me many a time and put me in touch with a local carer who i ended up helping out on a regular basis and we are now very good friends.

Hoggies can go downhill very quickly and they can have lots of problems.The best two things you can do are to keep looking out for any more,and to put down food and water every night,the hogs don't hibernate all winter,they wake periodically and need to top up their food.Dried is best,but still needs replacing every few days.

Busy-Bee_6

Thanks Froglet because we found a great big fat hedgehog feeding in the garden in January it seemed happy and content and your reply assured us it was OK. I suppose it came out because the weather was so mild and there was lots of bird food laying on the floor to be eaten. I wonder if this was mummy or daddy hog?

In spring, we're getting the babies back and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend the best hedehog house for us...