Hi Baldwinhedgehog
Sounds as if your garden is a lovely place for the hogs.
Just a word of caution about chicken as well. If you check out the table near the end of the information in this link http://www.valewildlife.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Feeding-wild-hedgehogs.pdf you will see that chicken breast has nearly as bad a ratio of calcium to phosphorous as mealworms. Not sure about the skin, but it wouldn’t be surprising if that was similar. The way I see it, if it isn’t necessary to offer something to the hogs and we aren’t sure about it, it’s not worth taking the risk.
Having said that you have obviously been taking good steps to make your garden more hog friendly which is brilliant. If everyone did something similar, maybe the hogs wouldn’t need any supplementary feeding at all – wouldn’t that be wonderful!
One thing I found out – by mistake – is that beetles like turf banks. i.e. if you’re ever creating a new bit of border, if you pile the turf up somewhere (maybe 3 or 4 turfs high) the beetles soon move in.
Good luck with the hogs and happy hog watching.
