What kind of thing does a hamster eat?　The kind of food.

● What kind of thing does a hamster eat?　The kind of food.

A hamster is omnivorous [ which eats various food ].
The hamster which lives on wildness is eating a herbal leaf, a herbal stalk, a seed, an insect, etc.
He eats many grain, seeds, vegetables, etc. and meat is seldom eaten.

A hamster can be said to be the animal near plant eating.

● Vegetables.

Vegetables rich in color with little moisture fit the food of the hamster.

They are a pumpkin, a carrot, a sweet potato, a broccoli, a cauliflower, a green pepper, etc.
A cabbage and Chinese cabbage are also eaten.
It is better to avoid, since a watery tomato and cucumber, lettuce, etc. cause diarrhea.
However, it is good for the hamster of the character in which water is seldom drunk to compensate moisture with giving these vegetables.

● Wild grass.

Wild grass, such as a dandelion, a chickweed, a clover, and a shepherd's purse, also becomes the food of a hamster.

Alfalfa and Timothy like a hamster, and if these are mixed, it will be pleased with it.
Nutritive value of alfalfa is very high and is healthy.
Although alfalfa and Timothy can use also for a flooring material and it is convenient, a fault is a little expensive.
However, there is a case where agricultural chemicals have adhered in wild grass.
Please let a hamster eat it after washing wild grass well.

● A seed and grain.

The favorite foods of a hamster are the seeds of a sunflower.
However, remarkable fat is contained in the seeds of a sunflower.

If it continues eating the seeds of a sunflower, nutrition will incline and it will become easy to be growing fat.
Moreover, since it becomes easy to become a skin disease and liver disease, cautions are required.

A hamster loves a peanut, an almond, a walnut, a pistachio, etc.
But these are high fat and high sugar like the seeds of a sunflower.
Don't give in large quantities.

However, since physical strength is needed when the hamster is sick, it is OK even if it gives the seeds of a sunflower etc.

The grain which a hamster eats has hemp, wheat, corn, millet, perilla, etc.
Such grain is contained in what is sold as food for a pigeon or little birds with the sufficient balance of nutrition.
Since the grain is small, these have turned to the food of dwarf hamster, such as .

Moreover, a hamster skins the husks of seeds and cereals and eats contents.
Therefore, husks will collect in the cage.
Since they are fine garbage, it is troublesome to take out, if husks are mixed with a flooring material.

● Fruit.

An orange, an apple, a strawberry, a peach, a banana, a melon, a pineapple, and a grape are eaten.

A hamster loves fruit.
However, since a hamster has a case where stop drinking water and it stops eating vegetables supposing you give fruit too much, cautions are required.
Moreover, since there is much sugar as for the feature, these should take care about the balance of nutrition.

● Meat.

Although it is close to plant eating, since a hamster is omnivorous, it needs animal protein.

Please heat beef, chicken, and mutton and give a small quantity.
Probably, it will be better not to give uncooked meat, since there is an opinion of eating one's child if uncooked meat is given although there is no basis.

Moreover, mealworm currently sold to the food of a bird is also eaten.
There is palatability, and also since the instinct of hunting can be filled, it is recommendation.
Otherwise, a hamster eats a cricket, a grasshopper, and a locust. Please catch these and give a hamster.

Dried sardines are also eaten.
It seems that there are also dried sardines for hamsters.
A dog food and cat food are also eaten.
Since animal protein is contained in these, it is useful when a living thing cannot be given.

It bites an owner's hand in order to try to compensate it, if a hamster runs short of animal protein.
Since cannibalization will also take place if animal protein runs short, it is dangerous.
Please give animal protein little by little at a rate once in three days.

● Egg.

A hamster eats a boiled egg.
Since the yolk has much cholesterol, let's give the white of an egg.
Since an egg is cheap, it can give animal protein easily.

● Milk.

Since the milk for small animals which adjusted the quantity of lactose is sold, this is given.

Since milk has too much quantity of lactose, it cannot decompose in the body of a hamster and it causes diarrhea.
Please do not give milk.

● In addition to this.

Cheese is also eaten.
The cheese for man is also OK.
However, please choose a low-salt thing.

The food of high salt has palatability and may become infatuation.

Furthermore, the hamster can eat yogurt.

　It returns to a top page.

　About the meal which a hamster eats.
　How to choose the pellet for the staple food.
　Ways of coping in case a hamster does not eat a pellet.
　The notes at the time of feeding a hamster.
　Danger! Don't give such food to a hamster.
　Time to give food and the number of times.
　Quantity of food.
　Sick prevention of porch of a cheek of a hamster.

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