How to Make Your Own Hamster Food Mix (RECIPE INCLUDED!) 

THIS IS SO HELPFUL!! I’m going to pin this comment!! 👏👏👏👏

WOW!! That’s actually crazy!! Thanks for sharing that! I should try my crickets with my hybrid, Bambi! I wonder if she’d like them, I didn’t even think of that! :)

AWWW YAH!! I cannot wait to connect you with your next hamster :) ADOPTION DAYS are the best :D!!

YAY!!! We’re so close! Almost there :)

Awww!! Thank you!! This is like one of the sweetest compliments ✨🤍!! :)

YAAH! This comment made my day! I have always struggled with where to start too, so I'm so excited to share my journey so it'll help other take their hamsters food into their own hands!!!

REALLY?? That’s good to know my hamsters aren’t just picky HAHA I never know because they are from the UK, I feel like they don’t like the same treats as my America hamsters HAHAH. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 That’s crazy that the birds didn’t even eat them. 😳 And thanks so much for the compliment :) so so glad you liked it!!

YES! There is SO much misinformation out there it’s hard to know what’s right and what’s somewhat right and what wrong and sometimes extremely dangerous & unsafe! I’m so glad you’re liking my videos! Makes me happy I picked up RU-vid again! 🥰

@@happyhamstery Well, we have a very happy little hamster at our home. Thanks to the information you and other YT creators have put out. I'm happy I did my research before getting a hamster. I'm a little floored by how different it was when I was growing up.

Did you figure out if this is for Syrians aswell? 😅 I'm loosing hope lol. I can't find a Syrian seed mix recipe anywhere other than this. Thanks 😊

HAHA This is the funniest comment ever haha 🤍✨😍🎉

AWW, this comment is so sweet! Congrats on your new HAMMY!!! ✨🥰 I’m so glad you like the channel! It’s been so fun to start and I cannot wait to see where we go!😍

GOOD POINT. Larger corporation are mostly all about the money making :/

@@happyhamstery exactly as long as the profit is good they dont care about the wellbeing of the animals

You CAN but you don’t have to. That’s what nice about food is it’s a percentage so theirs some wiggle room for treats and sprays! If they eat one spray all in one sitting, make sure to only restock that kind of spray once a month or bi-weekly and only give a-little. Millet & flax are my hammies FAV!!! But theirs TONS out their. We’re including red sorghum in our fall box 🤫 & their is wheat and oat at the pet section in the bird sections!

You should sprinkle your mix around your enclosure. :)

Awww!! Thanks for that sweet compliment! :) I personally scatterfeed! It’s a perfectly “free” enriching activity for a hamster everyday!! (Which I LOVE) Some hamster owners are concerned they won’t be able to keep tabs on what there hamster is eating if don’t feed the food in a bowl. My solution is scatter feeding on white bedding! You can see the seeds and in the morning, they are all collected :) + hamsters are hoarders anyway, so they are poaching it all and then taking it to a food stash somewhere and not really eating all of it. :) When my hamsters are nursing their pups or super pregnant, I place there food in a pile in their cage so they don’t have to take the time to go find it, and I’d do the same for a recovering hamsters & potential and elderly hamster too :) Hope this helps!!!

@@happyhamstery Thank you... thank you... thank you!!! Great info🥰

GREAT QUESTION! You could actually instead of replacing it add more of one of the other seeds/grains/legumes/nuts or proteins. But you’d want to make sure it doesn’t throw off the nutritional percentages by adding it to the hamster food calculator!! :) HOPE THIS HELPS!! :)

HAHA YAAAASSSS ✨🥰

agreed! was just going to comment this because it seems that she never specified in the video. i assumed this is for ww dwarves as that’s the species she breeds, but it should definitely still be directly mentioned somewhere in the video or description/top comment!

TOTALLY understandable!! I should do the math, I haven’t done it yet to see exactly how much it’ll make. I’ll do a video about it and do the math!!

HAHA thanks for sharing :) The $450 in seeds makes 1000s of grams of food and for a Hamstery, that has 45+ hamsters & pups, we go through that kinda food, so it saves money to make our own. :)

GREAT QUESTION!! Sorry for not being clearer in the video. I was referring to the percentage of the overall seed mix. Let’s see if I can explain better here! ↙️ If I make a seed mix that’s 100 grams, I want the protein content to equal 17-19% of the overall 100 gram seed mix, so that hopefully each scoop of food I feed to my hammy will have 17-19% of protein! So, I first calculate each individual seeds, protein, fat and fiber. Lentils have LOADS of protein, for example, (25%), so if I put 10 grams of lentils into my 100 gram seed mix. That adds 2.50% of out of the 17-19% of the protein to the seed mix. I hope this makes more sense, the numbers can be confusing sometimes because there’s so many working parts to calculate everything!

@@happyhamstery Thanks for the clarity. Based on your description, the specified percentages are based on percent mass/weight.

Thanks so much for letting me know. That’s so weird. I just tweaked a few things, did it send now? :)

​@@happyhamsteryhi, everything is ok ❤

​@@happyhamstery hello, i was writhing a longer response but the systeme did not Take it. Maybee is because i let an link. If i want to let you m'y Web site i can i do ? Is it possible to whrote you an e-mail. Thank agan ❤

AWW CUTE! Thanks for sharing HAHAH :)

I love these questions!! I’ll try to help as much as I can. :) Syrians actually do have a slightly different diet/nutritional requirements then dwarfs (but it should fall within these same requirements) If you make your own seed mix (if calculated correctly), it’s still far better nutritionally speaking, then the store bought brands. :) 1 tbsp a day is plenty for a Syrian! Especially if you’re including a daily salad and potentially sprays? If you hamster is gaining weight then I’d cut down to every other day or a half a tbsp a day! You can also try to find their hoard, and if their hoard has loads of food, I’d cut it down to every other day also. :) If you don’t decide to make your own seed mix, I would actually recommend going on Etsy to purchases from a small business that makes their own hamster seed mixes with the hamsters nutrition as their number one motivation! There are incredible seed mixes on their! My personal fav is GetZoo (German Seed Mix) Etsy seed mixes will be the BEST you can find in the US, I recommend that over buying sunburst and mazuri rat blocks. I wouldn’t remove the corn because they’re right, it’ll mess with the calculated nutritional values. Corn won’t give your hamster a disease, it’s more of a filler food that companies use, that hamsters don’t really need in their diet. I love that you do daily salads. :) I think that’s super sweet and something I bet your hammy looks forward to EVERY day and you’re giving them natural vitamins form the veggies and fruits so WAY TO GO! Your hammy is lucky to have you :)

@Happy Hamstery oh ok I understand and tha k you so much I'll definitely look on esty I completely forgot it exists haha but the corn this I'd a study some people did saying in rodents the ones who ate less corn has a lower tumor rate

REALLY! 😏 I love a good study, I’ll have to check it out, hadn’t heard of this. Currently my thought was diseases and tumors come from poor genetic lines being bred in rodent mills but not eating nutritionally well doesn’t help that either. Thanks for sharing! I’ll check it out :D

Yes! It’s within the recommended nutrition percentages for all the hamsters species! :) It was SO fun to make!!! 🤍🤍🤍

I currently wasn’t planning on it but I’ll definitely think about it!! ✨😍

@@happyhamsteryI’d buy it!

YES!! You can use the google sheets to substitute values of other seeds, etc! It’s not too hard once you get the hang of it :)

WOW! Really?? That’s actually mind blowing! 🤯

@@happyhamstery well, my dwarf has started too. Actually, he likes them a lot. Our Syrian hamster will eat them sometimes.

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