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canned or free-dried - 2008/04/30 10:17
Do your hedgehogs prefer canned or free-dried crickets? I can do live mealworms but crickets running around my apartment sounds like too much to handle.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/04/30 11:17
I bought the canned ones once - Satin liked them just fine, but they smelled like dog poop to me.
Since she likes the freeze dried ones and they don't carry such a stink, that's what she has now.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/03 01:46
Do any of you use these as treats?
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/03 07:36
if it not meal worms but bamboo worms instead, it will look so yummy for my stomach 
we call that in Thai as "Rodt Douan" (รถด่วน , it's the most delicious fried worms in the world for me. And you can share it with your hedgehog if it raw too.
Oh, I know what you're thinking about it, but you know?, try it then you will change your opinion.
There're more than 100 kind of worms and you can eat it all in my country too
YUMMY!!!!!!
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/03 17:31
voodewlady wrote:
Do any of you use these as treats?
I tried those but the hogs didn't like them. I've heard a lot of people using those though and their hogs do just fine  .
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/03 19:17
I bought some canned crickets but even though they were the "small" ones, they are really too big for Wesley. He'll chew them for a minute and then spit them out. However, one of my cats LOVES them. 
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/04 08:32
Kane123 wrote:
if it not meal worms but bamboo worms instead, it will look so yummy for my stomach
we call that in Thai as "Rodt Douan" (รถด่วน, it's the most delicious fried worms in the world for me. And you can share it with your hedgehog if it raw too.
Oh, I know what you're thinking about it, but you know?, try it then you will change your opinion.
There're more than 100 kind of worms and you can eat it all in my country too
YUMMY!!!!!!
I've seen specials on tv where they talk about different cultures that eat various bugs. I certainly don't see anything wrong with it, and would even try it! (though I confess, I'd be a bit hesitant at first I'm sure!)
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/04 09:16
Excellent source of fat and protein and much easier on the environment to grow than cattle. I wish Americans didn't have such a stigma around bugs. Unfortunately I am one of those and while I know how practical it is to eat insects I just can't bring myself to do it.  maybe some day.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/05 10:27
I used to give Aragorn some of the Fluker's mealworms, he didn't like them as much as the live ones but he thought they were alright. As for people eating bugs, every time I see people making food with bugs in it on the TV I think it looks yummy but my stomach doesn't agree with my head in that kind of matter, as it won't allow me to eat anything that looks alive (i.e. rare steak, mussels, occasionally even whole chicken or canned fish (the one with the bones still in it)) thus I try and stick to things that look like meat and not animal. It's almost torture, bugs just look so crunchy...
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/05 21:34
So, for the record are these a good treat or should I go for the live ones?
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/05 23:34
voodewlady wrote:
So, for the record are these a good treat or should I go for the live ones?
You can go either way, I keep both on hand but favor the live ones because they are fresher and LOADS cheaper than Fluckers! Fluckers run $7-9 a can for heaven sakes!
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 07:43
I wish I could do live crickets but the thought of them getting loose and running around my apartment makes my skin crawl a little. It's bad enough I see the occasional cockroach.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 11:11
Aaria wrote:
I wish I could do live crickets but the thought of them getting loose and running around my apartment makes my skin crawl a little. It's bad enough I see the occasional cockroach.
You have cockroaches in your house? Oh cool...I'm a bit of cockroach enthusiast. I'll take em if you don't want em .
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 11:53
yuck!  to each their own, I guess
that's what makes the world go 'round 
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 12:37
robosonic wrote:
Aaria wrote:
I wish I could do live crickets but the thought of them getting loose and running around my apartment makes my skin crawl a little. It's bad enough I see the occasional cockroach.
You have cockroaches in your house? Oh cool...I'm a bit of cockroach enthusiast. I'll take em if you don't want em .
I think Aria is referring to the good old fashioned German Cockroach, which doesn't make a good pet. Unlike the hissing roaches you have. But hey to each their own. 
Lots of cultures eat bugs and world wide it's more common to eat them than not to. Harley and I love to watch that show Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel. Lots of bug eating! It's interesting what each culture considers bizarre. I just saw an old Iron Chef episode (the one from Japan) and they had a Mexican chef battle the Italian chef. They really didn't understand how different Mexican cooking is from Italian and when the Mexican chef made a mango salsa over rice they were worried about eating it! While here in Sunny South Carolina we LOVE our peach salsa. These are the same people who eat FISH ICE CREAM and they were afraid of Mango salsa. I love our world, it's so diverse and never boring!
~Sara
Post edited by: Hedgehogmadhatter, at: 2008/05/06 12:45
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 13:08
you can have all of my cockroaches. I do not like them. at all. Their antennas freak me out. They are not as bad as the house centipedes though. They are REALLY gross!
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/06 13:15
I agree! The centipede things are creepy, and loose bugs in the house are NOT ok. However, I raise mealworms and dubia roaches here - though they are more...civilized? in that they stay in their containers and don't get out and crawl around. (and the hedgehogs/lizards ADORE them!)
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/07 10:23
Aaria wrote:
you can have all of my cockroaches. I do not like them. at all. Their antennas freak me out. They are not as bad as the house centipedes though. They are REALLY gross!
Centipedes? Even better  . I had one of those in a sauce jar not too long ago, I got it from my neighbors. But I let it outside under the deck because I didn't think I'd be able to find it enough insects in the winter.
Hedgehogmadhatter wrote:
I think Aria is referring to the good old fashioned German Cockroach, which doesn't make a good pet. Unlike the hissing roaches you have. But hey to each their own.
Good point. They make skin go itchy. I was thinking of the American cockroach.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/07 11:28
I've definitely seen two species of cockroach in my apartment. But that's city livin I guess
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/08 11:47
Aaria wrote:
I've definitely seen two species of cockroach in my apartment. But that's city livin I guess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_cockroach
That's the American Cockroach.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_cockroach
That's the German Cockroach.
Don't mean to creep you out or anything. So don't look at them if you don't want to. Just in case you're curious.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/08 12:34
You know what. I never looked close enough to be able to tell you which they were. I just hit them with the shoe I kept in the bathroom for that purpose. They're gone now since I got one of those as seen on tv things that look like they shouldn't work. I forget what they are called but if you see them on tv get one because it does work.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/08 13:42
OMG!! What a funny post!! Sometimes things take a turn for the bizarre on 'Hedgehog World.com" !!
Oh and just to stick in my two cents... Hazel LOVES the canned crickets, the small size!
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/09 08:45
where do you even find canned crickets?
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Aaria
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/09 09:18
I found them here: http://www.exoticnutrition.com/Canned_insects2.htm
But i think petsmart has them too.
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Re:canned or free-dried - 2008/05/09 10:22
I think for Asian people like me.... normally cockroaches are something that you have to kill it and throw it away from your house.
1.it's a dirty animal
2.it's bring us a really bad house (unlucky)
anyway there're the biggest cockroaches breed in Thailand too (about 3 inches for each one). They give it to Arowanas, Frogs and some fishes.
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