Welcome to AJ’s Lil Hedgies! This is my first blog post on here and will continually be updating these posts. I am very excited to be entering this near world of raising hedgehogs and sharing my knowledge that I know and am learning for you guys all to share in that. It’s exciting to think that my new hedgies will be joining our family next week. Part of this was an impulse idea, but I spent hours improving the idea and beginning to gather the things to create a new home for these lil guys. They will be my beginning stock for my breeding program and are being shipped by airplane from Michigan to here in Minnesota. Crazy thought huh? Shipping a hedgie seems so weird to me, but I suppose one day I’ll be doing just that as well.

They really are incredible animals. Their bodies are armored with all of those little spikes that they can either lay flat when they’re relaxed or spike up when they’re nervous or scared. That’s a good way for them to protect themselves, especially when they role up into a little bottle – similar to that of an armadillo. However, even with all of those little spikes, these guys have a super soft belly and bright beady eyes and a twitchy nose that helps them as they curiously run around. They typically have medium sized litters of 4 or 5, but can have up to 9 babies or as few as a litter of 1. It’ll be interesting to see how ‘average’ mine are as they get older. Anywho, I enjoy updating you guys and adding more information for you to read. I hope you enjoy this all as well! 🙂