We build a cozy house for a hedgehog

If you have a hedgehog in the garden, then you do not have to spend a lot of time and effort to fight harmful insects. Most of the work will be done by a new gardener.

And so that he will stay in the garden for a long time and become your constant assistant in the protection of the garden, build a cozy house for a hedgehog.

What should be the home for a hedgehog, so that it is convenient and cozy for permanent residence in it?

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Hedgehog house



1. The house has a small entrance, which does not give any chance for the cat to enter.

2. From the hallway, the hedgehog enters the dining room, where a special dry food is stored in the cup.

3. Through a small passage the path of the hedgehog lies in the bedroom, in which he will later build a nest of crumpled newspapers.



The roof of the house is mounted on royal hinges and at the same time is a reclining lid, which allows you to put food in a cup or change water. To protect against precipitation, the roof is covered with a ruberoid. The passage between the hallway and the dining room is closed by a swinging flap fixed on two small hinges, and can be freely opened in either direction. The flap prevents rats from entering the dining room.


For happiness, a hedgehog needs a little, namely:

  • that during the winter he should be provided with a warm and dry shelter, and in the summer he should have a richly laid table with food;
  • To quickly stock up on fat for a long winter.


In the hedgehog dining roomYou'll need two shallow cups. In one cup put 3 tablespoons of dry food or a mixture consisting of 2 tablespoons of dry food and 30 g of canned cat food. Another cup is filled daily with fresh water. Before each cup is filled with water, it is thoroughly washed and rinsed with hot water. Hedgehogs are very clean animals.

Hedgehogs like to build a nest.For this, the best fit is torn to pieces and crumpled newspaper. Unlike dry grass, from which small animals build a nest, paper does not absorb moisture as much and does not form mold. With the end of the warm season, the hedgehog uses the nest for winter hibernation.

The beginning of hibernation can be determined by the following sign: a hedgehog during the week is not shown from his house, and newsprint remains intact.It is important that at this time no one looks into the bedroom, in his newspaper nest - this will prevent the hedgehog from preparing for the rest period.

From mid-April to early May, you can watch the animal slowly move away from deep sleep. At this time in the garden there is still little to profit. Nature is only beginning to wake up after hibernation, many insects have not yet departed from winter sleep.

Unfortunately, many gardeners still begin with the first rays of the sun in April general spring cleaning: all parts of the garden are carefully freed from leaves and plant debris. As a result, there is a bare ground where it is difficult to find food.Therefore, the more leaves in the garden, the richer the table is set for animals.



A bowl of dry food in mid-April will be accepted by the hedgehog with gratitude. This will help him easily replenish his energy reserves after the end of hibernation.

At the end of May, the old paper in the nest should be replaced with a new one. It is not excluded the appearance of offspring in the nest. Young replenishment all summer will live in a cozy house and only in early autumn will be engaged in the arrangement of their own winter apartment.Hedgehogs are terrible individualists and prefer to live in isolation.

How useful hedgehogs are for the garden, you can judge by their menu: beetles, caterpillars, slugs.The closer the garden is to nature, the easier it is to find food. As a rule, food is under fallen leaves, tree trunks in a shady corner of the garden, under bushes and coniferous trees.



It is also interesting that the hedgehog in your garden is your friend and helper!

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There are many words about the benefits of gardening. But it's time to get down to business. Summer is coming, and you need to hurry with the construction of a hedgehog house.





Having built such a cozy house, install it in a shady corner of the garden.









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