Baby Hedgehogs colors?

Question

Can anyone tell me the color of these babies:

http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2979683680103321385bYKvEW?vhost=good-times

Or if they are not old enough to tell their colors?

I think the first 4 darker ones are either salt & pepper or a snowflake color.. and the lighter 2 are apricot or a similar color... but I'm not so sure...

Answer 1

They are probably more suitable with people more than the wild now so you should keep them and care for them and I think you might need to wait a couple of days for their skin color to fully show so it will be more obvious.  

Answer 2

It is a bit early to tell now, but they will all be some variation of brown. Some look to be on the lighter side, and two look like they could potentially darken a little bit. You could also have some snowflakes or whites if it is in your lines. They are very cute with those little dark masks! By the way, I am in Southern Ontario too :)

To other posters: African Hedgehogs have been bred in captivity for the almost 30 years. I have worked in an exotic vet's clinic for several years and yes, they do know what they are doing when it comes to treating hedgies. If you want to be nasty to someone asking a question, at least do a little research and stick to what you know before you post in the first place.

Answer 3

I don't know but they're cute.

Btw, you're selling them? You know hedgehogs are wild animals and don't make suitable pets yeah? Put them back in the wild where they belong d**n it.

http://www.hedghogz.co.uk/hedgehogs/intr...

Edit: thumbs down me all you want, hedgehogs are WILD animals, they are not domesticated pets and they are not suitable to be domesticated. Whether you have bred them for captivity or not they don't deserve to be treated as pets. They are nocturnal, young children don't understand pet's that well at the best of times, you can't explain that they're beloved new pet, doesn't want to play because it needs to be asleep so you just stress the hedgehog instead. You put it in a pen when in the wild it roams for miles and miles, so you stress it even more. Stress kills animals. Hedgehogs are NOT naturally friendly animals, they are scared of humans and rightly so, young children see a ball and think it's fun to kick it, only realising afterwards that it's an animal because they're parent says something after they've abused the animal.

I do know what I'm talking about, I work at a vet's part time, we see so many baby hedgehogs coming in nowadays due to RTA not mother's being taken for pets admittedly, but vets don't know how to treat them properly because of their wild instincts and we can't be sure exactly how they will react to medication they might need. The same goes for a so called "domesticated" hedgehog.

Hedgehogs are not suitable to be domesticated, there are plenty of other cute, small, adorable animals out there that have been domesticated and adapt well, hedgehogs aren't going to be one of those animals. A hedgehog's average domestic lifespan hovers around seven or eight years.  Wild hedgehogs have been known to live for up to 16 years.

I'm assuming you know all the potential health risks that come with hedgehogs and the insane amount of fleas they pick up no matter how many times you de-flea them?

There is a reason for that, the diet fed by humans to hedgehogs causes to many problems, is too high in fat and is not right for the hedgehog. The food hedgehog's eat in the wild is right for the hedgehog and it's body is adapted to digesting it, that's why it eats it.

I see no problem with occasionally putting out morsels of food for a wild hedgehog that has taken to visiting your garden, but trying to domesticate an animal that isn't suitable for domestication is wrong.