so we're just jumping into today's video and that is me doing some cage
maintenance on all of my hamster cages you guys really like these videos so I
thought why not today we're starting off with honey's cage and I'm just removing
all of the stuff in her cage so that I can kind of rearrange it a little bit
I also am taking out her sand bath because I'm just going to give that a clean so
that I can put some fresh new sand in there so I'm using a bit of reptile sand
and then I'm also going to be mixing it with some children's place and because
the reptile sand is really expensive so I like to just mix it so it's not as
much money waste
then I'm going to be adding this wooden hideout in the sand
bath which was such a good idea because honey loves going in there and
using the sand bath way more so if you have a sand bath and your hamster doesn't
use it I highly suggest putting in a hideout in the sand bath and they most
likely will use it a lot more
as you can see little honey and woke up because she
could hear me moving stuff around her cage so
I just said hello to her and then I actually put her in her travel cage so
that I could start on this little part so I give honey all of this bedding and
she doesn't actually burrow in it like she should so I thought why not make her
some type of burrow box I'm not very skilled in building things so I just
took a bit of old cardboard and some hot glue and I made a little burrow box
these also I made myself these are little wood slices that I put
dowels on and I use them as lunches and the hamsters love them
then I'm just putting in the food dish and the water
then we have Aspen's cage here as you can see it used to have the popsicle
sticks I've replaced it with Plexiglas and I wanted to make it cuter so I'm
just taking these cage stickers from furnishables they're removable
stickers and I'm just placing them on there to kind of make it look a bit cuter
as well as somebody gave me the idea that I should stuff some moss in
between the cracks of my bendable bridges just so that it can prevent any
toes or legs from getting caught so I just want to take the precaution and do
that and then I'm adding in some flax wheat and then oat sprays for her when
she gets back into her cage which might not be for a while so I thought I'd do a
little quick update on Aspen for you guys because she still is in her bin
cage Aspen is on the road to healing her leg is a little bit swollen at the ankle
still and if it is truly broken then it could take 4 to 12 weeks of healing but
she still has active eating and drinking and she's overall very happy hampster so
she is doing ok so then we are just moving on to bumbles cage and I want to
rearrange the entire cage for her as well so I'm just gonna remove everything
so that I can do that also bumble isn't in the cage currently she had already
woken up so I put her in a playpen with her hideout
and this part actually it reminds me that I need to make a little stand for her Wodent wheel because the
bedding does get stuck under there a lot I'm just adding in her sand bath which I
cleaned out and gave her fresh sand I like to do that every once in a while
so I'm going to be putting in this hideout at the back here so that I can
actually see in when she goes into that hideout she likes to go in there to
groom I also had no clue where to put this bridge so I'm adding in a cork log
another cork log because I love my cork and then her bridge on the top there
which I did put some sphagnum Moss just on the edge there it's just natural
green moss it is safe for hamsters they do nothing with it really they just
walk on it they don't try to eat it or anything I'm adding her hideout and this
is a wooden magazine organizer you can get from Ikea it's called a knuff, knuff
I don't know how to say it properly but I love it as a hamster hideout
then I'm adding in my flax wheat and then oat spray I love sprays and my hamsters love
sprays and then I'm adding in her food & water the food dish is actually a terra
cotta saucer and they're perfect food dishes so then the last thing I'm gonna
do is add in my herbs I always get questions of what ones I use there is
rosebuds, marigold, ribwort, cornflowers, echinacea I don't know how to say that
one parsley stalks, raspberry leaves, nettle leaves, dandelion leaves, chamomile
dil and sunflower petals