Your Garden Hedgehogs

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Fri Feb 22, 2019 9:52 am

Hedgehogs are back. :hedgehog: :rara:






Date is wrong on the first video.


From last night.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Butterfly » Fri Feb 22, 2019 1:29 pm

That's lovely Willpar :clap: , they look healthy and good weight from what we can see :hedgehog:

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:53 am

Some more clips from last night.


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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:34 am

Well they all look very chubby and cheery so that's nice. Winter has been kind.
I thought that in the third vid one was preparing to take up permanent residence :)

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Tue Feb 26, 2019 9:56 am

Was certainly making itself at home placi. I think there may be two of them at the moment. One s deffy a male. But for the first time I have got them to eat dry catfood straight from the bag. But it can be soaked for babies as well. It is a junior one for cats between 2-12 months that I got from lidl. The biscuits are small and flat kinda star shape. But hey are all being eaten so that is a good sign.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:29 pm

Wonder whether these newbies don't know any better so they are quite happy to eat dry cat food - first hunger after the winter, and not yet spoiled for tastier foods.
Just one thing though, Willpar: wouldn't Farley's Rusks be more appropriate for babies ?

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Tue Feb 26, 2019 6:45 pm

Now that is going back a bit placi. Farley`s rusk. Made in good ole Plymouth. Used to eat them like biscuits, and always remembered how sweet they were. Probably why I liked them so much.

You could well be right placi. Will see how the season goes. Bound to be a fussy eater or two out there.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Wed Feb 27, 2019 11:32 am

Yes Willpar, I recall how sweet they tasted; wasn't aware that they were Plymouth-made :). Probably Farley's Rusks were served on Drake's fleet instead of ships-biscuit which is why the Armada didn't win the away leg.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Willpar » Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:05 pm

Deffy two hedgehogs last night as they were both together. Eating for England at the moment.

Farleys factory long gone now placi.

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Re: Your Garden Hedgehogs

Post by Placido » Wed Feb 27, 2019 6:18 pm

Your comments have made me check out Farley's Rusks, Willpar: seems they contained more sugar than a chocolate biscuit, together with loads 'n' loads of salt. Millennium mums wouldn't buy them.
Heinz bought the name and they're now sold as Heinz Rusks.

Now about gripe water ....... :)

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