Experience in daily management of hedgehogs

1) do a good job in daily cleaning and hygiene. The hedgehog's nest should be cleaned regularly to keep it clean. The summer weather is hot and the feed is easy to deteriorate. The basin fed the night before should be picked up the next morning, washed with clean water and reused in the evening. You can't keep it in the nest all the time and take it out when you feed it in the evening. In this way, the leftover food in the nest is easy to deteriorate for a day, and the hedgehog will suffer from gastrointestinal diseases after eating such leftover food. You should also keep clean and fresh drinking water outside and change the water once a day. The mat grass in the nest should also be changed frequently to keep it hygienic.

2) do a good job in preventing heat and cold. If hedgehogs build a nest outdoors, they must prevent heat in summer and cold in winter. Plant grapes before and after each row of hedgehog houses, and build grape trellis over the cottage and playground, so that grapevines can be covered with grape trellis, which can be shaded in summer and harvested in autumn. Within 1-2 years before the grape trellis has not been formed, a sunshade net can be set up over each row of houses in summer to prevent the sun from shining directly on the houses, raising the temperature in the houses and causing heatstroke. In winter, hedgehogs have to hibernate, and the suitable temperature for false hibernation is 0: 8 ℃. The lowest outdoor temperature in Central Plains in winter is generally-10 ℃, 6 ℃. If you don't pay attention to cold prevention, hedgehogs may freeze to death. So every winter for outdoor hedgehogs to carry out cold protection work. The specific measure to prevent the cold is to cultivate the soil behind each row of huts, which is covered with a thick layer of grass to facilitate heat preservation. Before entering the hibernation period, it is necessary to remove the mat grass in the nest and replace it with more soft hay, so that the hibernating hedgehog can safely survive the winter in the thick soft hay.