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What foods can hamsters have?

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Here is a list:

1: Anytime - dry plant foods like buckwheat, corn flakes (non sugar), pea flakes, wheat grains, dried vegetables, grass seed, rolled oats, hemp seeds, hard bread, hay or dried herbs, millet seed, carob bean, chick peas, crispbread, foxtail millet, grain for bird seed, corn (also fresh corn ears), rice, panicle millet, sunflower kernels.

2: fruits, vegetables, and herbs - apples, berries, Pears, home-grown sprouts, strawberries, fresh chick pea or lentil plants, daisies, cucumber, rose hips, shepherd's purse, couch grass, pumpkin, dandelion, carrots (no leaves!) parsley (not for pregnant females!), red beets, soy sprouts, watermelons, plantain, zucchini.

3. protein and live foods - cottage cheese or natural yogurt, dried shrimp, dry dog or cat food, water fleas, egg whites, all insects, especially crickets, house crickets, grasshoppers, meal beetles, moths.

4. Branches - apple, pear, hazel, willow, poplar.

5. Rare snacks - "Hamster waffles," peanuts, hazel nuts, dog biscuits, pumpkin seeds, noodles (raw or cooked), raisins (unsulfured), walnuts, zwieback. Fruits, vegetables, and greens - all kinds of lettuce, avocado, banana, nettle, blackberries, chicory, boiled potato, blueberries, raspberries, currants, kiwi, clover (not for pregnant females!), tomato (no leaves!). Protein and live foods - canned dog and cat food, plain cheese, mealworms, beef and chicken. Branches - maple, linden, birch.

6. Under no circumstances - All sweets, bonbons, drops (also know as yoqurt drops), acorns, salted nuts, spicy baked goods, gummy bears, chestnuts, salt sticks, chocolate, baked goods containing sugar. Fruits, vegetables, and greens - all cabbage vegetables, pineapple, cow parsnip/hogweed/pigweed, beans, ivy, poisonous plants, cress, carrot leaves, citrus fruits, onions and all members of the allium family.

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Hamsters can eat all of the following foods!

Asparagus

Basil

Bean Sprouts

Bok Choy

Broccoli

Brussel Sprouts

Cabbage (in small amounts)

Cauliflower

Celery

Chard

Chestnuts

Chickweed

Chicory

Clover

Cucumbers

Dandelion flowers and leaves

Endive

Green Beans

Green Pepper

Kale

Orange Pepper

Parsnips

Potatoes (cooked)

Radicchio

Red Pepper

Romaine Lettuce

Spinach

Swiss chard

Turnip

Water Chestnuts

Water Cress

Yellow Pepper

Zucchini

Cooked, unseasoned ground beef (lean preferred)

Baked/Steamed, unseasoned Turkey/Chicken

Low Fat Cottage Cheese

Grasshoppers (pet shop only!)

Mealworms (pet shop only!)

Crickets (pet shop only!)

Eggs (boiled/scrambled, plain!)

Plain Tofu

Plain Yogurt (no sugar added)

Dog Biscuits (make sure there is no garlic/onion in these!)

Acorns

Alfalfa

Baby Food (no onion, garlic, low sugar, and containing NO preservatives)

Buckwheat

Bran or Wheat Germ

Brown rice (cooked, plain)

Cereals (low/no sugar)

Cheese (mild, lower fat, small quantities)

Dry Toast (whole wheat, NO white)

Flax seeds

Lentils

Nuts (except almonds)

Oatmeal (plain, dry, or soak in skim/soy/low fat milk)

Pasta (cooked, plain, wheat or spinach)

Peanuts (plain, unsalted)

Popcorn (plain, unsalted)

Pumpkin seeds

Sesame seeds

Soybeans (roasted, salt-free)

Squash Seeds

Sunflower Seeds

Foods that never should be fed:to hamsters!!!

Buttercups (flower)

Chocolate (toxic)

Onion (possibly toxic in some animals)

Garlic (possibly toxic in some animals)

Peanut Butter (can get stuck in pouches)

Sandwich meats (contain too much salt, high nitrates)

Almonds (possibly toxic/ Cyanic acid)

Apple Seeds

Canned foods and other processed foods

Candy/ Junk Foods

Pork

Potatoes (raw)

Kidney Beans

Eggplant

Fool's Parsley

Grape Seeds

Avocado

Raw Rhubarb

Tomato leaves

Citrus fruits (including orange, tangerine, lemon, lime, grapefruit, etc)

Watermelon

Fruit pits/ most fruit seeds

Jams/jellies

Salt

Spices/Seasonings

Leeks

Scallions

Chives

Pickles

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mostly everything like veggies, fruit, nuts but make sure the nuts arn't salted, cerial but make sure the cerial dosen't have suger,dog biscuts, kibble and make sure you don't feed them chocolate but there are some types of choclate that you can by at a pet sttore that is safe for them.

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Bean sprouts

Lettuce

Cucumber

Carrots

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dog bicuits and monkey nuts followed by hamster treats and hamster food.

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hamsters can have a variety of food . cooked corn,tomatoes,belle peppers, and other fruits and veggies

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Hamster food.

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