| Re: Hamster Food
I never had that problem and was actually adding some extra sunflower seeds and nut treats when mine got older. My dwarf hamsters just passed away at over 3years of age so I don't think the sunflower seeds did them any harm. However I feed more of my own mix with mostly seeds than a commercial hamster mix. I just recently got ahold of harry hamster food and tried it out. The pieces were a bit big for my dwarf hamsters but overall they liked it and their health stayed the same as when I was feeding my own mix. I think the problem of too much fat comes from the fact most commercial hamster mixes already have too much fat content so combined with the sunflower seeds you get fat hamsters. The Harry hamster food doesn't seem as bad in that regard as the other commercial foods my sister fed her hamsters. But I suppose since we are talking about feeding a commercial mix you should watch the level of sunflower seeds and don't add parrot seed mix since it contains lots of peanuts and other fattening things.  |