Hamster Muesli
Hamster museli should make up the main component of your hamsters diet and should provide a balanced diet with all the essential vitamins and proteins your hamster needs. It's important that your hamsters food is changed everyday so that it is fresh and the same applied to your hamsters water. There are several reputable brands of hamster food but Florence loves the Pets at Home brand (UK). It contains lots of yummy foods; Wheat and oat husks, peas, maize, hamster pellets, peanuts, sunflower seeds, soya, banana flakes, vegetable oils and minerals.
If you find that your hamster is a picky eater (also known as a selective eater) and is only eating certain parts of the muesli and leaving the rest, you might like to consider hamster pellets. These contain all the goodness of muesli, except in pellet form and have the added bonus of helping to keep your hamsters teeth in good condition (as they gnaw on the pellets).
If you find that your hamster is a picky eater (also known as a selective eater) and is only eating certain parts of the muesli and leaving the rest, you might like to consider hamster pellets. These contain all the goodness of muesli, except in pellet form and have the added bonus of helping to keep your hamsters teeth in good condition (as they gnaw on the pellets).
Hamster salad
Florence the hamster also loves a brand of hamster salad that contains meadow grass, oats, marigold, parsley, beetroot, peas, carrots, nettles, wheat, corn, birch leaves, rose petals, peppermint and lemon balm...She LOVES it!
Vitamin supplements
Vitamin supplements can be bought from most well stocked pet shops and normally comprise of liquid drops. These can either be added to your hamsters water bottle or less often, to their hamster muesli. As a general rule however, vitamin supplements are only needed if your hamster is under the weather or getting old, to boost their immune system and overall health. Otherwise providing a good diet of hamster muesli and small amounts of fresh food should be enough to provide your hamster with all the vitamins, supplements and protein they need.
Foods your hamster can enjoy (other than the usual hamster muesli)
As a rule, your hamster should have special hamster muesli as the main component of its diet. Hamsters however can enjoy extra treats and tit-bits. When it comes to fruit and vegetable, these will supplement your hamster with extra vitamins and minerals and some of the treats below provide a good source of protein. Remember that if you give your hamster any of the below, you should remove anything uneaten at the end of the day, to avoid it going bad and your hamster subsequently getting unwell.
Remember that dwarf hamsters are particularly prone to diabetes so you should avoid giving them too much sugary food! This means when giving treats and tit-bits, only give very small amounts.
Remember that dwarf hamsters are particularly prone to diabetes so you should avoid giving them too much sugary food! This means when giving treats and tit-bits, only give very small amounts.
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Fruits:
Apple (seedless) Banana Blackberries Cherries (de-stoned) Cranberries Grapes (seedless) Lychees Melon (not watermelon) Peaches (no stone) Plums (no stone) Raspberries Raisins and sultanas Strawberries Proteins and other foods: Bread soaked in low fat milk Cooked minced beef (without fat or grease) Cooked chicken Cheese Cottage cheese Grasshoppers and crickets (only feed one at a time) Mealworms Eggs (boiled or scrambled) Dog biscuits Sandwich ham Cooked plain brown rice or brown/wholewheat pasta Museli Nuts and seeds (no almonds as they contain Cyanic acid) |
Vegetables:
Asparagus Broccoli Cabbage (small amounts) Carrots Cauliflower Celery Clover Courgette Cucumbers Dandelion leaves Green beans Lettuce Cooked peas Spinach Sweet corn Turnip Water cress |
