simply helps you house the hedgehogs visiting your garden
Are hedgehog houses a good idea?
If you want to encourage hedgehogs to live in your garden then you need to provide them with somewhere they can make a home. Ideally you should leave an area of your garden ‘wild’, with piles of leaves and logs where they can create their own home.
However, if you want to instantly provide a house for the hedgehogs then take a look at the pre-made, purpose-built hedgehog houses or ‘hibernacula’ which are available on the wildlife websites. Fill this with nesting material - leaves, hay or straw all make good nesting materials for a hedgehog house which is outside.
To help you do this with ease we have searched the internet and found some hedgehog houses for you.
You Need To Know!!
You might want to make your garden a haven for hedgehogs but you should never take a hedgehog from the wild and bring it to your garden to live. Or move a hedgehog from another garden to yours. By moving a hedgehog you will be taking it away from an area it knows - and where it knows where it can find food and water. And you could be taking it away it's young which would then not survive.
Simply all the hedgehog houses we have found
Igloo Hedgehog House
Gardman Hedgehog House
Igloo Hedgehog House
Adding an Igloo Hedgehog House to your garden or outside space is a great way to help ensure hedgehogs have the best chance of survival.
Sturdy, rust and water-proof hedgehog house.
For use during both hibernation and breeding/nesting season, this reinforced, steel framed house is a sanctuary of safety and security for your much-loved nocturnal explorers.
Keep hedgehogs regular visitors to your garden all year long with this ingenious design boasting a predator defence tunnel and enough room for a family of tiny hoglets, they won’t want to leave this cosy home!
Hedgehog Haus
Gardman Hedgehog House
Igloo Hedgehog House
The Hedgehog Haus is a sturdy steel frame house with a narrow wooden entry that prevents predators from getting in.
Made from a steel frame, covered with waterproof felting and textured brushwood, plus decorative rattan.
The doorway is made from FSC certified timber.
The Hedgehog Haus provides an alternative, quiet, safe place for hedghogs away from natural predators, pets and the dangers of strimmers, mowers and resting in compost heaps or bonfires.
Size:
Length: 48cm
Width: 35cm
Height: 15cm
Gardman Hedgehog House
Gardman Hedgehog House
Wildlife World Hedgehog Retreat
This Gardman Hedgehog House has been designed to be an attractive natural home that will blend into any garden environment as well as being a safe retreat for Hedgehogs.
It features a sturdy, rust resistant steel frame, a waterproofed roof and a predator defence tunnel which is suitable for summer shelter, hibernation and breeding.
This natural made hedgehog house should be positioned out of the prevailing wind in an area with some nearby cover, an area with slugs would be ideal as they are a good natural food source.
Dimensions: Height: 20 cm x Width: 34 cm x Length: 47 cm.
Wildlife World Hedgehog Retreat
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
Wildlife World Hedgehog Retreat
The Hedgehog Retreat from Wildlife World is designed to be a safe haven for our spikey, nocturnal friends. It features a sturdy, rustproofed steel frame with an FSC certified waterproof lining, an integrated predator defence tunnel, and a rustic natural rattan finish.
Providing Hedgehogs with a safe and long lasting refuge will increase their survival rate as Hedgehogs are declining at an increasing rate. Around 25% of Hedgehogs do not survive from one year to the next, this is due to a variety of factors such as: an absence of safe habitats, road deaths, bonfires, garden tools, poinsonous slug pellets and modern agricultural techniques.
Dimensions: 59 x 44 x 21cm
Deluxe Hedgehog House XXL
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
This beautiful Hedgehog house has been carefully designed as a refuge for hedgehogs during their breeding and hibernation seasons.
The entrance of the house has been precisely measured so it is big enough to allow pregnant hedgehogs to safely enter and exit while preventing any potential predators from gaining access. The long entrance tunnel also helps to deter predators. Complete with a removable roof, the house is easy to clean or fill with suitable nesting materials, such as hay or dry leaves. The roof is also pitched and overhangs to protect the house during heavy rainfall. Built-in ventilation prevents moisture from building up inside the house.
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House
Attract hedgehogs to your garden by providing a safe place for them to rest with the Tom Chambers Vermont Hedgehog House, hancrafted from sustainable timber. Perfect for placing in a quiet spot to encourage passing hedghogs to take up residence where they won't be disturbed. Why not place some hedgehog food alongside to further entice your spiky guests?
The curved grey roof provides shelter from bad weather and predators, whilst the timber walls offer insulation from cold temperatures outside. To avoid wind, place the entrance away from the north/north-east. Placing dry straw or shredded newspaper inside the hegehog house will make your guests more comfortable and provide further warmth.
DON'T FORGET THE bedding! HEDGEHOG houses need a base layer
Hedgehog Bedding
Specially formulated for hedgehogs. this bedding is a mix of hay and straw and It is an ideal ground cover for a hedgehog house.
When preparing your hedgehog house you should fill the bottom of the house with a good layer of bedding which will provide the hedgehog with extra protection against the cold during hibernation. When adding the bedding make sure that the opening remains free so that the hedgehog continues to have access to the house.
Size : 500g
With Hedgehogs Visiting Your Garden Remember:
Make sure that the hedgehogs visiting your garden remain healthy.
So please take care when using any garden tools which could harm them - such as lawnmowers, strimmers, rakes, forks. Check before you start gardening that the area you are going to be working is free from resting or nesting hedgehogs.
If you have a traditional compost heap in your garden be aware hedgehogs may think it’s the ideal place to make a nest. Take care when turning the compost in the heap - forks or compost aerators could easily harm a hedgehog.