Spike's | Hedgehog Food, Delicious Crunchy Dry | High in Fibre, with Fresh Chicken | Suitable for Adults & Hoglets | Made in the UK (2.5kg)

My hedgehogs love these biscuits!Excellent item (though product arrived three days late so order well in advance if you’re running low on supplies…)

Very good value, will buy again

Our hedgehogs love this food, so do the blackbirds. I see the blackbirds going in and out all day on the wildlife camera. Night time the hedgehogs go into their eating house and enjoy the dry food.

Every nightI sprinkle Spikes in the front garden in the gravel, just as they would find their natural diet. Along with the camera trap. We have 2 regular hedgehogs that come and go all night.. plus one of the neighbourhood cats, that will spend ages picking the pieces out of the gravel. If I put Spikes in a bowl as advised, the cat would eat the lot. I forgot .. occasionally a fox arrives too. All leggy, so probably a young male. All welcome

Our hedgehogs seem to love it

This moist Hedgehog must be good because there never seems to be any left when they leave. if anything is left it is the dry food which I put out a 50/50 mix and the birds finish any thing that is leftover.

My visiting hogs absolutely love this and will often wait until I come out to feed them if I’m a bit late. They are creatures of habit and tend to come for their Spike at the same time each evening. I put down enough food that there is a very small amount left in the morning. This way I know they have had enough. Spike is much better than any moist food/cat/dog - especially for young hogs growing their teeth. Hogs need sharp strong teeth to eat their natural food of crunchy beetles! However, because Spike is a complete dried food, hedgehogs will eat less natural food (from which they would derive much of their moisture intake), its therefore vital to ensure theres a pond WITH A SLOPE/RAMP so they don’t drown or large dog bowls of water - (which they also like to wash in!)Another very good advantage of dried Spike is hogs are very prone to FLY STRIKE. In warm weather, even on summer evenings, moist food more easily attracts blow flies. Hogs then pick up the eggs as they eat the food and can commonly get a fatal attack of fly strike (where maggots hatch out in their spines and face fur).Hogs are also very prone to Lungworm too, so its worth placing the bowl of food on sand to deter slugs which pass on this fatal disease to hedgehogs (I NEVER use slug pellets as Hedgehogs eat slugs and are at great risk of secondary poisoning although it should be said that hedgehogs actual do not like slugs very much (they only form a small fraction of their diet) they prefer beetles, so a nice large log pile and dry sandy areas for beetles will help provide the best diet for hedgehogs along with their nightly Spike.I keep Spike in a large plastic tub (an empty fatballs bird food tub) and use usually one plastic tumbler per number of visiting hedgehogs each evening. Each morning before the Magpies and Blackbirds descend into the garden, I just check to see how much food has been eaten and moderate it the next evening if necessary. Spike is enough of a good complete and apparently very tasty meal for Hogs that I very rarely supplement it with any mealworms since these swell up in their bellies and are probably the equivalent of kids eating too many cheese puffs!Since using Spike, Ive never varied the food of my regular hogs since even the smallest change (ie to pet food or moist food ) can upset their tummies - I think its the best food out there, it may not be the cheapest but its worth it to help stop these beautiful creatures from disappearing from our gardens and countryside for ever.

Great value bag, great quality, smells lovely. The resident hedgehogs enjoy it immensely.