Squirrels are now more and more popular as small pets. Everyone wants to have a loved one well-behaved squirrel, so how should we raise squirrels? Here is my carefully organized for you to take a look at the feeding of squirrels.

How to keep squirrels

Living place

At least a double-decker cage, because squirrels like to do step movement, you can refer to the hamster cage. There should be a hut in the cage for it to rest and hide its food. Water is very important, it is recommended to buy a hamster water bottle, cheap and clean. It is cheaper and cleaner than using a sink because it is easy to contaminate the water and often needs to be changed. The bottom of the cage is lined with newspaper or wood shavings, and should be replaced once a week.

Diet

Domesticated squirrels generally feed on the seeds of plants in the family Crustacea, but they also consume a fair amount of insects in nature, so it's best to feed them some animal food as well. Since squirrels love nuts such as walnuts and chestnuts, it's best to feed them regularly. If the diet is based on artificial food, it should be supplemented with additional food such as apples. Summer and fall can also feed a little melon and fruit and other foods, such as cucumbers, tomatoes and watermelon.

Mixed feed: generally consists of barley, wheat, corn, soybeans and the skin of the money, the content of 25% barley or wheat, 20% corn, 15% soybean cake, 10% soybeans, 20% drum skin, 6% fish meal, 3% bone meal and 1% salt.

Roughage: Mainly peanuts, sunflowers and walnuts.

Green juicy fodder: there are cabbage, carrot, rape, mulberry leaves, holly leaves.

The daily feeding amount of feed for each squirrel is about 30 grams of mixed feed, 200-250 grams of roughage, and 150-200 grams of green juicy feed. It is necessary to feed three times a day, in the morning, in the middle of the day and in the evening, and it is necessary to fix the feeding point every day.

Habitat

Squirrels are extremely curious and will put anything into their mouths, so be careful, don't let the squirrels come into contact with harmful items.

Squirrels love to collect things, there are two crops in the mouth, in winter, it will store a lot of things in the hut, to prepare for the winter. As winter approaches, feed some nuts to make it easier for squirrels to store.

Squirrels will hibernate in winter, keep the cage neat and warm, add food and water in time, squirrels will wake up once a week to defecate and eat. Squirrels recognize the nest, so do not change the nest often, its defecation place is fixed, pay attention to timely cleaning.

Recreation and rest

Squirrels are absolutely a model of early to bed and early to rise, preferring quiet, noise will cause the squirrels disturbed, affecting the squirrels to rest and eat.

Squirrels are very active, to ensure that the squirrel's activity space, conditions, you can then build some activities for the squirrel cage equipment, convenient squirrel movement.

Squirrels are very timid in unfamiliar environments, so they are usually extremely fearful when they see a person in this situation. When the squirrel arrives home, it will hide in the nest and sleep without coming out, which is normal and no need to worry. Give enough food (melon seeds, apples, corn, water) in the cage, the squirrel will come out to eat when no one is inside, and then go back to sleep after eating. The owner should not disturb the squirrel at this stage, and let the squirrel rest for a week to adapt to the new environment.

After a week or so, when the squirrel slowly adapted to the environment of the new home, slowly not so afraid of people, this time, the owner can be in the squirrel to eat, quiet around the cage quietly watching, when the squirrel in the cage in front of you to eat on a great progress, remember, can not be close to the beginning of the time when it makes violent movements, will scare it.

When the squirrel is able to eat in front of your face, this is the time to try to hand-feed some of the squirrel's favorite things to it, such as pine nuts or pistachios and so on. Gently stroke its head and neck while it eats. If it does not resist strongly, you can try to put it into your hand, this time the squirrel must be very scared and want to escape. But it's okay, as long as you move gently, and let it feel no danger in your hands, try a few more times, the squirrel will stay in your hands, just a matter of time.

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