The staple food must be professional rat food. If not, you can prepare your own rat food. Mealworms and melon seeds will cause excessive internal heat. Broccoli provides calcium. Mung beans are eaten when the internal heat is high, but eating them when they are not will cause flatulence. Mung bean skin is more useful than mung beans. It is not recommended that you feed self-prepared rat food for a long time. Professional rat food has higher nutrition and more scientific proportions.

Melon seeds, peanuts, fruits, apples, cucumbers, etc. cut into very small pieces can be fed to it on a regular basis. These small snacks can help the little hamster supplement a variety of nutrients. .

It is recommended to have a small piece of each snack a week. The total frequency of feeding snacks per week should not be too many and should not exceed the daily food intake. Vegetables and fruits should be dried or dried before consumption.

Hamsters bathe with bath sand (remember not to use water) (Syrian hamsters bathe in saliva by themselves, no sand bath is required). Pay attention to environmental hygiene, probiotic selection, nutritional balance and diversity, and stable temperature and humidity.

Extended information

1. Mainly feed on plant seeds, tender stems, leaves, fruits, and occasionally insects. Not hibernating. They live on stored food during the winter. Additionally, some species are omnivorous and can feed on vertebrates such as frogs. They stuff food into their large cheek pouches and retrieve it for storage in their burrows. Hamster burrows containing up to 90 kilograms of food have been found.

2. Hamsters perceive visual, tactile, auditory and chemical stimuli. They appear to rely most heavily on vision when searching for prey, but hearing and smell are also important.

3. Hamsters use chemicals to communicate. Males mark their territory with their large sebaceous lateral glands. In fact, the size of these glands correlates with an individual's position in the dominance hierarchy: the larger the glands, the greater the animal's dominance.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia: Hamster