Feeding help
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Hello,
I have a feeding station with a camera and every night have several visitors sometimes two at a time. every night by 2 am all the food and water is gone so any visitors after this have nothing. Do i need to add more bowls of food do you think? there is probably enough room for one extra food bowl. thanksOur little spiky friends should not have to rely on “supplementaries” but as there’s less and less prey naturally I’ve got to 3 feeding stations in the garden with the appropriate meaty cat food out every night with a bit of dried scattered around to make them forage. If you really do want to get up at 2am; they do have a fast metabolism and fill up and evacuate about every 4 hours!
They may well be coming to you first to fill up and then having to find “live” food for the rest of the night. According to the latest research read today in the BHPS news their habits have probably changed towards making a beeline (hogline?) to sources of regular feeding. Whatever you do, don’t forget water!Whilst I agree the hogs should not have to rely on supplementary feeding, the simple fact is the many do, especially when we have hot dry summers and food and water is scarce. The suburban gardens are an important sanctuary for hogs and by offering them a safe place to feed, sleep and breed we can ensure their survival.
We have three feeding stations plus a couple of bowls of food under a garden bench. We get numerous hogs, a couple of local cats and recently a fox. There is often some food left in the mornings and the birds clean that up.
If like us you have cameras out you can judge how much the hogs are eating and how much the birds and other animals are eating. In my experience about a quarter of a mug of dried food is sufficient for each hog.
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