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RSPB Silhouette hedgehog home

(25 Reviews)

The Silhouette hedgehog home is a safe retreat for hedgehogs. With its gently-sloping roof and distinctive hedgehog silhouette design carved on the front, it's definitely a ''des-res'' for our spiky friends! It's safe too - the internal entrance is concealed, to help protect them from predators. Although it's cosy for the long winter, there are ventilation holes to aid air flow. The secure roof can be opened for inspection and cleaning.

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The Silhouette hedgehog home is a safe retreat for hedgehogs. With its gently-sloping roof and distinctive hedgehog silhouette design carved on the front, it's definitely a ''des-res'' for our spiky friends!

It's safe too - the internal entrance is concealed, to help protect them from predators. Although it's cosy for the long winter, there are ventilation holes to aid air flow. The secure roof can be opened for inspection and cleaning.

The box may be used as a nest site from spring until June/July, and as shelter from poor weather and predators until their winter hibernation. They will typically hibernate between November and March dependent on the weather.

  • This hedgehog home comes with a pre-drilled camera hole, making it easier to install a wildlife camera if you have one. 
  • The hedgehog home comes fully constructed, so you can place it in your garden straight away.
  • The roof unscrews and easily opens up so that the box can alternatively be used as a feeding station.
  • External measurement (including walls and roof): 53 x 40 x 23.5cm.
  • Internal measurement (hedgehog living space): 43 x 34 x 17cm.
  • Handmade from pine.

Where should I put the hedgehog house?

Position the Hedgehog home somewhere quiet, out of the prevailing wind. Under shrubs is an ideal place as it will help to ensure the hedgehogs are undisturbed. Cover the shelter with leaves and brushwood to camouflage it and create a cosy den.

When will hedgehogs use this home?

Hedgehog houses may be used for winter hibernation, throughout the summer as a safe shelter, or, if you're very lucky, by a female making a nest to have her young.

How can I encourage hedgehogs?

  • Consider making your garden more wildlife friendly. Hedgehogs need to be able to get from garden to garden to look for food. Solid fencing all-round will prevent them being able to travel between gardens so ensure there's a gap or that you choose natural hedging in places instead of solid fence.
  • Provide them with suitable habitats: They like thick dense undergrowth and a variety of lengths of grass.
  • Hedgehogs have a varied diet and you may also be able to provide them with some supplementary hedgehog food. This is particularly useful during periods of drought when natural insect foods may be harder to come by. You can try Brambles hedgehog food, available in small and bigger amounts from RSPB Shop (online and in store) and some other retailers.
  • Avoid giving hedgehogs milk, bread, and mealworms.

Garden dangers to watch out for

  • Toxic chemicals. Slug pellets can be particularly detrimental.
  • When putting preservative on garden sheds, fences and other wood furniture around the garden use non-toxic brands. Hedgehogs often lick new smells and surfaces.
  • Hedghogs habitually hide themselves in piles of leaves, grass cuttings, pampas grass, compost heaps and bags of rubbish. Always check these before burning, cutting, strimming, mowing, putting a fork into or disposing of them.
  • Many plastic items can trap, ensnare or cut a hedgehog. These include netting, plastic can holders, large necked bottles, plastic pots and barbed wire.
  • Hedgehogs can also easily fall down holes, into water troughs, ponds, swimming pools and other types of water vessel. If you cannot prevent them from falling in, then make sure there is always a way for them to get out. Dogs can injure hedgehogs, so make sure you know what your dog is doing when in the garden late at night.

What happens if I disturb a hedgehog?

If you accidentally disturb an active hedgehog nest, carefully replace the material. The hedgehog will soon repair or move the nest elsewhere. If there are young in the nest, avoid touching them. Similarly, if it is a hibernating adult, avoid waking it. Should it wake, you may want to leave it some food nearby until it hibernates again.

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Fiona
Age: 35 - 44

04/Oct/2023
Really lovely house
This is a lovely, well made hedgehog house. It will be nice and cosy once the wee garden visitor makes it his home for the winter. I love that its already got a wee hole for a wildlife camera to be added. I only wish they told you which camera would suit it or how to install.
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Judith Fuller
Age: 45 - 54

27/Jul/2023
Fantastic
Received today, well made, perfect, just what I was looking for. All in place and ready for a resident or two.
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Chalky
Age: 25 - 34

21/May/2023
New tenant in the Hog House
We bought this hedgehog house after careful consideration and having read the reviews, I must admit I was rather sceptical when I saw that Hog's had taken up residence after a few days/ weeks...However, lo and behold a few weeks after purchasing, as I looked out at the garden one evening, there was a rustling amongst the aliums. At first, I thought it was yet another squirrel but no it was in fact a rather chirpy plump looking hog who has moved in as a new tenant. Absolutely delighted and couldn't recommend this house more!
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