Choosing an Appropriate Hamster Food: with an Introduction to Homemade Diets
Hamsters are foragers, and depending on species, eat a variety of seeds, grains, insects, vegetables & grasses in the wild. A species appropriate diet should replicate this in captivity and common issues we see with hamsters who are fed inappropriate diets are picky eating habits (which can cause malnutrition) and obesity & diabetes. What An Appropriate Hamster Food Does NOT Look Like: Many (practically all) commonly available diets on the market are heavy in pelleted extrus