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Why do my hamsters only eat sunflower seeds?
I have two Winter White Dwarf Hamsters. I feed them Nutriphase Gold for hamsters/gerbils. It has a variety of different foods in it, including sunflower seeds. My hamsters seem to only eat the sunflower seeds! Sometimes I take something else from the bag and stick it in their mouths but the spit it out and get a seed! What is wrong here?
I have two winter white hamsters too and I faced the same trouble with them. They used to eat only sunflower seeds and leave the rest of the food. It is their version of KFC and can make them fat and unhealthy since sunflower seeds have a lot of fat in them. Slowly I have turned around their eating habits in the following way –
Firstly, I picked out all sunflower seeds from their commercial food mix which I put in their cages. My hamsters were agitated for a few days over this, they used to dig the whole cage looking for seeds but after a week they got over this habit.
During the week when they were agitated without their seeds, I put in lots of other treats in their cage like small bits of cheese, cornflakes, carrots and rice crispies to distract them from their seeds.
My playtime with them is an hour in the night and during this time, I used to give them the sunflower seeds as treats from my hand (not more than 5 seeds a day)
Slowly but surely, after two weeks, my hammies had gotten over their habit of eating only seeds and had started eating other food as well. They now associate seeds only with playtime.
Hope this helps! Remember they are also like us who take to junk food so be very patient with them until they learn to eat other food too.
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