1. Correct diet for hamsters
1. Staple food: The staple food of hamsters should be grains, which are essential foods in the daily life of hamsters, including millet, corn flakes, millet, etc. Multigrain is as important to hamsters as rice is to us.
2. Complementary food: The pet owner can use fresh vegetables and fruits as complementary food for hamsters, and can feed them appropriately during the daily feeding of hamsters. Hamsters can add water and plants to the fruits and vegetables they eat. At the same time, proper feeding of fruits and vegetables can also help hamsters adjust their taste, but we must pay attention to control the feeding amount, and try to choose fruits with more water to feed.
3. Snacks: Hamsters like to eat nuts with high oil content, such as sesame seeds, melon seeds, peanuts, etc. They can usually feed these foods as their snacks occasionally, but only occasionally Feed a little, but not too much, so as not to induce adverse reactions such as hamster slippery intestines.
4. Nutritional products: Some tonics with high protein content can be used as nutrition for hamsters, such as boiled protein, mealworms, boiled chicken/beef, dried fish and dried shrimps. However, hamsters should not eat more of this kind of food. They can only be fed more under certain circumstances. For example, female hamsters can be fed more nutrients to supplement their nutrition after giving birth.
The hamster is usually given its own food, which can be matched according to the ratio of 70% of the staple food, 20% of the non-staple food and 10% of the snacks. The hamster food sold on the market has been blended or pressed into synthetic food with the hamster’s staple food, non-staple food and snacks according to the appropriate ratio. This synthetic food can basically meet the hamster’s daily eating needs and various nutrient needs. However, different brands of hamster food may have their own focus, and pet owners can appropriately mix some self-prepared food to feed the hamsters.
2. Dietary taboos for hamsters
1. Chocolate, coffee
The theobromine contained in chocolate can cause poisoning in hamsters, and coffee can easily lead to hamsters’ heart palsy, so these foods must not be fed to hamsters. It is recommended not to feed hamsters with human-eating snacks, because the ingredients in human-eating snacks are not good for the health of hamsters.
2. Sugar
Foods with high sugar content are also not suitable for feeding hamsters, and some sweet fruits are also not suitable for feeding hamsters, otherwise it may cause hamsters to be fed. Gastrointestinal disease, cardiac paralysis, dyspnea and other adverse reactions.
3. Vegetables
It is forbidden to feed hamsters with foods such as garlic, shallots, onions, shallots, etc. These foods are easy to destroy the hamster’s red blood cells and cause the hamster to get sick. Spices and other irritating foods cannot be fed to hamsters. In addition, when feeding the hamsters with foods such as tomatoes, potatoes, and radishes, the stems and leaves must be removed before feeding the hamsters.
