General Hedgehog Info
**PLEASE BE SURE HEDGIES ARE LEGAL IN YOUR STATE!!!!!*
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General
Hedgie Info & Breeding
**PLEASE BE SURE HEDGEHOGS ARE LEGAL TO BREED OR EVEN HAVE IN YOUR STATE!!!!!**
- Do you have the right size cage for the parents & the hoglets?
- Do you have the right diet for your animals, so the female will produce great looking hoglets & won’t eat them?
- Do you have an Exotic Vet. lined up ready to go for examinations & ER Vet. Care?
- Do you have another cage for the hoglets when they should be weaned? (You cannot keep a son or daughter with its mother or father or brother or sister of course!)But do Remove the father from the mother before hoglets are born!(So that's another cage!)
- Have you done all the research on your animal, breeding, during pregnancy, & hoglets/weaning?
- Do you have a place that you know will buy your hedgehogs?(Are they lega to sell in your state?!) (Remember sometimes its not easy to find homes for them. Even highly respectable breeders have troubles finding some of theirs homes.) Most pet stores will not buy them due to needing a USDA license to sell them. ( I would NEVER recommend selling to a pet store! That can cause trauma to the hogie!)
- Remember the more hogs there are, the more it will smell, the more food you will have to feed, the more you will need to water them, play with them, & clean their cage!*& the more $$ you will spend.*
- Do you have suitable breeding quality animals?
Another good thing to remember, this is NOT a get rich quick plan! It takes a lot to be a breeder- or at least a good one! You need to have documents on your animals, Vet. Care, & much, much research!
Everyone I have seen starting out act like they will be rich after their first two or three litters. That is NOT the case! There are SO many hedgies out there that need to be adopted. Most are rescues that people could not care for because lack of knowledge!
You also have to think about the cost that you will spend on food weekly, bedding, toys, Vet. Care, & so on... all of that ADDS up! You certainly don’t make much off them. I in fact don’t make anything off of my animals. Every penny made off of them goes right back into them for food & supplies!
Another good point to look at is, why do you WANT to breed?
Do you want to ‘make money?’ Do you want to just experience the miracle of birth? You really should be breeding to better the species & their genetics.
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