Time to give food and the number of times.

● Time to give food and the number of times.

Feeding a hamster has the once best for the evening.

Since they are nocturnal, they are sleeping from the morning fundamentally till the evening.
Even if it gives food at daytime, they are not of a good appetite.
Therefore, it becomes best to give food from the evening when an activity state begins to night.

After waking up to the evening, 2 or 3 hours is a time zone when a hamster eats food most.

However, it will grow fat if food is given too much.
As for giving food, 1 time is good in one day.
A meal is good to give every day at the same time.
At my home, the hamster is also fed at the time of my supper.

● Quantity of food.

The standard of the quantity of the food for one day of hamster is 5 to 10% of weight.
The pellet which is the staple food is 3-4g.
5-8g of water is a proper quantity.

In addition, the animal protein of mealworm etc. and vegetables are given in consideration of the total amount and nutritional balance of food.
I learned from the salesclerk of a pet's shop that it is good to give the meal of the quantity like the half of the body of a hamster.
However, the hamster left the meal half-eaten in large quantities.
It was the mistake which the salesclerk said and it was not a proper quantity in fact.

The food which became old becomes dirty, and deteriorates and rots.
If such food is eaten, a hamster will break health and also the inside of a cage will become insanitary.

Let's give the meal of the quantity which can be eaten up.

Moreover, since movement is restricted unlike a wild hamster, the hamster kept by man will grow fat if food is given too much.

I(t is my hamster at the time of having been an overweight tendency. )

Moreover, a hamster saves up food into the porch of a cheek and has the habit of bringing home and storing food in a nest.

Please see the situation of a nest etc. and judge whether all food was eaten.
If old food is in a nest, let's remove it and prevent decomposition.

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　▼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.
　What kind of thing does a hamster eat?
　The notes at the time of feeding a hamster.
　Danger! Don't give such food to a hamster.
　Sick prevention of porch of a cheek of a hamster.

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