I'm really excited today; we're going to be setting up a new house in Hedgehog's
Hollow. So if you've ever wanted to know how to
set up a new hedgehog house this is the video for you stay tuned
hello my name is mike and welcome to hedgehog's hollow
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a previous video i showed you how you can set about
making your own hedgehog house now i've not
made this house i've made the other two and if you want to set about making your
own house then click the video that's on the
screen at the moment and that'll teach you
all the things you need to know about making a new hedgehog house
in this case i've bought a house and as i've previously said
you can very well go to pet shops and diy merchants
to get a hedgehog house from scratch and buy it off the shelf
but if i were you i'd really encourage you
to seek out and support your local hedgehog rescue
because guaranteed they'll be able to sell you a really top-notch
hedgehog house so you'll not only be getting a house but you'll be supporting
your local rescue as well and in these times that's
really important local rescues have really been suffering
of late not only because their volunteers haven't been able to work for
them so they've been short staffed but also because fundraising events and
open days have completely had to be cancelled so
all opportunities for raising funds have been completely wiped out so if you
can support a local rescue and buy a house it's a win-win situation
so i've bought my house from my local hedgehog rescue
which is brockworth hedgehog rescue and i encourage you to
go and have a look at their website at their facebook page and see the
fantastic work that vicky and her team are doing at the moment she
doesn't really have much of a team around her because of the current
virus situation and it's mostly her on her own
supporting what for the most part is an absolutely
full up rescue but she's doing fantastic work
as are all the hedgehog rescues at the minute so if you can support them
definitely head out and support them by buying a hedgehog house or looking them
up online and seeing the ways that you can support them
but for now let's set about sorting out this hedgehog house
ready for new tenants moving in soon before we set it up
let's just have a look at this design as we've seen before it's a fairly
standard design we've got the doorway leading into a
tunnel and that's to make sure that nothing
other than the hedgehogs can gain access to the main
living area
so in this case what we're actually going to use is hay
and i choose the hay just because it's a little bit more shredded
than straw and so that means that the hedgehogs can burrow into the
hay a little bit more easily i will later
set up straw within the within the garden just so that they've got some
additional bedding material as you've seen before it doesn't have to
be full up and if you look at the video about cleaning the hedgehog house
you will be able to see exactly how full the hedgehogs can fill these houses
just on their own so what i've done is i've put a uh
just a layer of about five to ten centimeters of hay in the bottom
of the house and that's all that the hedgehogs need they can
investigate see that there's some warmth in there and they'll set about
filling the house themselves with material that they found
around the garden if at the moment the garden is a little bit sparse
maybe set about leaving some additional straw or hay out for them and they'll
start collecting that and that's what i'll do when i place the
house now into the garden but that's all we need
so we've got the house we've got the straw all the hay in the
bottom just in the living area and we're now going to place it in the
garden
so you can see that even though the house has a lovely sloping roof
i've still chosen to cover it over with plastic and i just feel that that's been
successful with the other two houses and so i'm going to cover it over with
plastic and just keep it dry and also it keeps the hedgehogs a
little bit more comfortable and out of the wind
even though the houses have got legs and are elevated off the ground you want to
ensure that the house is on a nice level piece of piece
of ground and just make sure that it's propped up
and leveled itself you don't want the head jobs having to
roll in and out of bed quite literally and then what i've done is surrounded
the outside just a little bit with some additional hay and straw
that we had left over and that will do two things
it fills up the gap between the ground and the
house itself and just keeps a little bit of a space but it also
keeps the house dry and prevents seepage from below
and it also gives the hedgehogs a little bit of more material
that they might want to build a house with and build
and collect bedding with later if you've set up a house in your garden or you've
built one from scratch i'd love to know so leave a comment in
the comment section just below if you found this video
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otherwise i hope you've enjoyed this video i'm gonna head off now before the
british summer starts raining once more so for myself mike
and hedgehog's hollow take care bye
you