Hedgehog accommodation

[shirlton]

Does anyone have an easy plan for a hedgehog home please

[shirlton]

[grannyjanny]

Hi Shirl. I've just put how to build a hedgehog house into google & the fist one that comes up has ones for sale & at the bottom one to make. Ton will have fun. Is it for the plot or home. I lurrrrrv hedgehogs. Got 2 houses & put food out every night.

[shirlton]

Thanks Jan ;D will take alook at google

[Bjerreby]

I find they like it natural. They are happier when they have shifted a bit for themselves, and I suppose they have an urge to secure themselves for winter. I see my role as an assistant to them, and a guardian of their preferred environment.

They could go under my shed which has raised wooden floor, and behind my compost bins I have a pile of roof tiles left over from building the house, under which they could find really good shelter. But it seems to me they prefer it under the hedges, where I have laid out piles of old sticks. They gather plenty of old grass, make a big ball, and get inside for the winter.

The key thing is to make sure there is plenty of material with which they can gather to stuff their winter home.  :)

The site is another question. Once again, I find they know best themselves what they are doing. In my garden, they choose a place that catches what bit of winter sun there is, while blocking the wind and deflecting rain / snow. Under a south-facing hedge seems very popular, something like this;

[shirlton]

Cheers Bjerreby. The one I found was under a pallet of straw. At the moment I have put the pallet back down and having no straw bales left have put a piece of wood on top to keep it dry. It is underneath a huge sycamore so there are plenty of leaves and I line the paths with straw so it can help itself