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Muesli, pellets and seed mixes for hamsters, gerbils, rats and mice. 11 brands and 4 products with manufacturer data — the average protein across the 3 dry hamster foods we track is 15.4%.
dry: 3 pellet: 1
Dutch pet health and nutrition company with roots to 1942, strong in the UK small-animal aisle.
Yorkshire family milling business with origins traced to 1649; launched the Excel brand in 1998 with the first single-component extruded nuggets for rabbits.
Mealberry Group's small-animal brand offering balanced mixes for herbivorous and omnivorous small pets.
Small-animal feed brand from a Lincolnshire family business that has produced animal feeds for over 100 years.
US small-animal nutrition specialist whose hay-based diets and vet-standard Critical Care recovery formula are staples with UK exotic vets.
Telford-based designer and distributor of pet food and accessories, incorporated in 1960.
Suffolk-based small-pet specialist with 30+ years' expertise; was among the first to create high-quality specialist foods for small pets.
Belgian animal-nutrition group founded in 1932, a leading European supplier of cage-bird, pigeon and small-animal foods.
German family pet-food company founded in 1837 near Bremen, still family-run.
Wagg was launched in 1985 by William Page as a complete dry dog food, when the family firm stopped making farm feeds and moved to its purpose-built site at Topcliffe near Thirsk.
German natural small-animal nutrition brand focused on species-appropriate, additive-free diets.
bunnyNature · dry · all
Little One · dry · all
Oxbow Animal Health · pellet · all
Supreme Petfoods · dry · adult
Pelleted/extruded diets prevent selective feeding, where an animal picks out the tastiest bits of a muesli mix and leaves the rest, leading to an unbalanced diet — vets increasingly recommend pellets for this reason, though a mixed diet is fine if you watch what's left in the bowl.
A small handful (roughly one to two tablespoons) daily for a Syrian hamster is typical, adjusted to the pack guide and your pet's size — hamsters also cache food, so an apparently empty bowl doesn't always mean they've eaten it all.
Pet specialists and online retailers carry the widest range for small pets — supermarkets typically stock only one or two mainstream brands. Every product page here links to the specific UK merchants that stock it; see our full merchant directory.