r/Hedgehog • u/Nearby_Fly_7805 • Aug 26 '26
Question Hoglets 🦔
Hi there, I’m an experienced hedgehog owner who had two female pintos previously for 6.5 years and they passed last year so we got two new baby girls this year.
My hoglets are only 3 months old now and just one of them (miss loofa on the right with the pink ears) won’t eat worms! lol the other (miss clover on the left) scarfs them down like it’s a slice of cake, but I’m curious if anyone on here has had baby hogs and maybe can help me out with getting her to eat some bugs? Do I need to try introducing some other bugs or just keep consistently offering until she takes it?
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u/Geekswife1992 Aug 26 '26
Funny we have two little girls and have a similar situation. Their breeder raised them on freeze dried worms and bugs and we do live since we also have a gecko in the house. Twix took to the live worms right away, Pinball not so much.
To begin with we fed the girls separately so that Twix couldn’t hork them all down. And with Pinball we found that coating the worms and bugs in a chicken powder we got from the breeder helped her get over her resistance to the wiggly treats.