What should we be feeding hedgehogs?

8th June 2018

The hedgehog’s natural diet mainly consists of slugs, ground beetles, caterpillars and worms. During cold or dry periods, these creepy-crawlies become much scarcer in gardens, so hedgehogs will benefit hugely from a shallow dish of water and supplementary feeding.

Hedgehogs will relish any combination of meat-based wet dog or cat food, hedgehog food or cat biscuits. Place in a shallow dish and put in a sheltered area of your garden around sunset.

It’s important to remember that this food is only supplementary to their natural diet, so please be sure to provide a nice mixture of food to get all the nutrients that they need.

Can you feed hedgehogs bread and milk?

Hedgehogs are lactose intolerant so please do not give them milk. Bread is low in energy so fairly worthless to them.