Dinks chicken soup.

If you have a hedgehog that won't eat or is ill, then this may help!

- Boil some chicken thighs or legs for approx 30/40 minutes (chicken on the bone is best but fillets will be okay)
- Once the meat is tender, pull all the meat off the bone including the red meat next to the bone (its easiest to do this whilst still warm),
- Liquidize the meat using the water you boiled the chicken in - consistency depends on how you want to feed it, if you are syringe feeding you will need to make it quite runny.
- You can add any vit powders or drops to the soup once its in the bowl, if you add it to the whole mix and store it, vit content will de-grade.
- If the hog turns its nose up (rarely happens,lol), you can add a drop of honey to make it more appealing.
- If feeding hoglets or sometimes really sick hogs, you can add goats milk into it, but add this to the serving as opposed to the whole mixture, as it will go off quite quickly.
- You can also add crushed dried mealie worms to it and soaked biscuits, it all depends on what your hog is willing to eat. If plain food is required, i usually start with just the chicken soup, then add the mealies and eventually add the cat biscuit to wean them off it (be wary though, some cat biscuits go sour once soaked in water).
- Serve warm

The mixture can be stored in the fridge for further use, make sure to warm it up before feeding again, i usually put some in an egg cup or similar and place this in a bigger bowl with hot water from the kettle (it does warm up quite quickly though, so be careful!).

I take no responsibility for any hedgehog becoming addicted to this though