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Home Forums Carers / rescuing a hedgehog Overwintering indoors or in shed? Reply To: Overwintering indoors or in shed?

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Stef – thanks so much for replying.

I’ve not managed to get hold of our local rescue – despite trying lots of times. I believe they are over run with juveniles and limited to what the staff can do in these covid times.

So I think my course of action is to get them checked for internal parasites (I live in Cambridge if anyone can suggest an alternative to Shepreth to help me do this) and once they get the all clear I will move them into the shed. The shed has windows so they will get light.

Meanwhile I will sort out their living quarters in the shed so they can get up and down to the hutch etc.

The club foot is at the back – so that is good news.

One weighs 608g the other is 540g they were both ~300g when I found them.

My plan would then be to move the hutch set up out into the garden in spring and then open the door so they can come an go until they stop returning.

I feed them all year round and have various nesting places set up in the garden so hopefully the little one with the club foot will stay close by.

Thank you

Vicky

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