How to Make Your Own Hamster Seed Mix

Hi, I made this video to explain how I made a homemade seed mix for my hamster and hopefully this will provide a good basis of understanding for you if you would like to make one too! I go into what kind of ingredients should go into the mix, how many ingredients you should try and aim for and how to use Excel to calculate the percentages of protein, fat and fibre each ingredient would provide to the mix. If you’re completely new to hamster nutrition, my previous video outlines some basics What Should You Feed Your Hamster? but I recommend also doing your own further research as well as checking out the links below.

** Here is a link to download the spreadsheet that I used in my example, I have already input the formulae so you can have a go messing around with proportions and then switching the ingredients/adding more or less etc. I personally wouldn't use the ingredients and proportions as they already are in this sheet because the fibre is pretty low and the fat is pretty high but again this is your call as you will know your hamster and their diet best. Then the second sheet lets you calculate the proportions of your commercial mix with your homemade one, I have linked the cells so once you have calculated the nutritional info of your homemade mix, they should already appear in the second sheet :-) https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/... **

Useful Links:

A really great guide to help you understand hamster nutrition - http://hamsterhideout.com/forum/topic...

The basis of what my knowledge and this video is built on -
https://www.hamstersociety.sg/hamster...

Variety and quality analysis -
http://hamsterhideout.com/forum/topic...

A forum discussing mixing commercial foods/making your own -
http://www.hamstercentral.com/communi...
http://www.hamstercentral.com/communi...

A German perspective -
http://www.diebrain.de/hi-futter.html

Commercial food analysis -
http://dashinghamsters.blogspot.com/2...

USDA -
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/

Nutrition Data -
https://nutritiondata.self.com/

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