Purina

[MelvinsAHottie]

Ok i Had melvin on Iam's then saw everyone said it was horrible...so it was time for new food so i got him Purina becuase it was on sale....so i was wondering about Purina how good it is for him?????..... I was also wondering about since Melvin is a picky eater i can't get him to eat a Vareity of stuff and if that was ok? and suggestions of stuff to try!!Everything i give him he eats half of..i thought it was weird but don't know if its normal....Here are the things i have let him and he liked try PLZ let me know if any of these are bad for him......Cheese (small piece of an off brand Velveta), Hot DOg, Lemon juice (He loved it..it was the concentrated stuff from the container shaped like a lemon), and Salmon!

[HamorHollow]

Personally, I like Purina Kitten Chow and Purina One. Wait, rephrase, I like to use....... *I* don't like it because, well, *I* don't eat it, but I digress......

Anyway, you'll get a lot of arguments about foods and quality, and I don't have the energy to go into all that right now. Basically, I like to mix the higher quality with some medium quality like Purina and Special Kitty. I find that my hedgehogs do better and stay trimmer. When I used all high quality, my hedgehogs got fat and I had a high rate of fatty liver (still feeling the fallout from that. I lost Port about 2 weeks ago).

That's the short version. The longer version is either in a thread on this board or on Hedgehog World.

[PrettyHate]

Ok i Had melvin on Iam's then saw everyone said it was horrible...so it was time for new food so i got him Purina becuase it was on sale....so i was wondering about Purina how good it is for him?????..... I was also wondering about since Melvin is a picky eater i can't get him to eat a Vareity of stuff and if that was ok? and suggestions of stuff to try!!Everything i give him he eats half of..i thought it was weird but don't know if its normal....Here are the things i have let him and he liked try PLZ let me know if any of these are bad for him......Cheese (small piece of an off brand Velveta), Hot DOg, Lemon juice (He loved it..it was the concentrated stuff from the container shaped like a lemon), and Salmon!

I stay off the topic of the Purina. On its own I wouldnt bother. Mixed with higher quality foods- perhaps.

Cheese is alright in moderation.
No hot dog- too high in sodium.
No lemon juice- could upset his tummy
Salmon is fine as long as it isnt the canned stuff - also high in sodium.

[illinidairychic]

Purina One is a higer quality then just the kitten chow. I use both Kitten mixes on my pregger mothers and have never had a proble with it. The Purina one acutally has Chicken as it's first ingredient rather then a meal or by product. I have them on a mix of a couple of foods, which gives them more variety. Everyone has their favorite foods and there are theories on which is the best because of this or that. I generally read labels rather then fuss over brands.

[wyvernrider18]

I have Purina One Healthy Weight Management in my mix. My girl loves it- she won't eat anything new without it being mixed with the Purina One first. I don't really have a problem with using it in a decent mix, but I've stopped feeding it alone as i have been advised by many not to. I also have CSFTCLS Adult Lite and Solid Gold Katz n Flocken in my mix, so it balances it out pretty well.

[boomer7]

i DONT OWN A HEDGE SO I WAS JUST WONDERING WHY DONT PET STORES MAKE HEDGE FOOD????????
ooops sorry it was on caps lock :rofl:

[hemi_mygirl]

Some petstores sell hedgehog food...the commercially made ones anyway, which are bad to feed to hedgies anyway.

Higher scale petstores sell at least a few varieties of the food that is actually recommended for hedgehog consumption.

[PrettyHate]

The Purina one acutally has Chicken as it's first ingredient rather then a meal or by product.

Chicken meal actually gives you more meat than just chicken. In any meal the meat is cooked and THEN weighed- meaning it has lost 66% of its weight in fat and water. For chicken, just the chicken is put in- so youre getting alot of weight in water, fat etc, instead of chicken. By going with a meal youre getting about 5 times the meat you do with just meat itself not in meal form.

[illinidairychic]

Chicken meal actually gives you more meat than just chicken. In any meal the meat is cooked and THEN weighed- meaning it has lost 66% of its weight in fat and water. For chicken, just the chicken is put in- so youre getting alot of weight in water, fat etc, instead of chicken. By going with a meal youre getting about 5 times the meat you do with just meat itself not in meal form.

I just prefer it over the by product crap....

[CATELAN1989]

What does it matter what you feed them? I mean hello they live in the wild what do you think they eat all the time in the wild.........they could be eating animal poo.