Building a hedgehog house for yourself is really rewarding when the visiting hedgehogs take up occupation. I hope you find this video useful and that you can use it to create a hedgehog house in your garden

Hi Mike what a beautiful garden you've made for your wonderful hedgehogs 🦔 great channel and great advice 👏 please may i ask what shrubs you've planted around the hedgehog area as we have made a similar area at the bottom of our garden but our plants are mostly woodland ie.acers,ferns including a dead trunk of a tree fern also hostas. Only afew evenings ago we had a hedgehog visit our garden who seemed to be quite familiar with the surroundings such as finding where the water features were as we have 3 and the entrance/exit and in no hurry to leave we think the hedgehog entered from the hedge behind our garden we live in a very small village in North Devon near Umberleigh and we live directly behind a field which the hedge is at the bottom of our garden we were blown away we were watching the hedgehog from our raised deck it was absolutely wonderful just to watch his/her movement through every inch of our garden so we quickly ordered a hedgehog house, anouther on the way & basically everything kitten food & Spikes hedgehog food,hay, logs and small feeding bowels which came the following day we've also bought a wildlife camera so as we approach autumn everything will be ready if this hedgehog returns or hopefully any we can only hope, my husband actually come across what looks like a hedgehog highway hole about the size of a cd case which the previous owner had done its in the dividing fence of 1 side of our neighbour which must mean hedgehogs were coming in the garden long before we moved here plus another entrance small gap at the other end of the fencing.We all need to help build a hedgehog highway so we can somehow help these beautiful animals survive. I also purchased your Hedgehog Hollow tee shirts for myself & husband absolutely marvellous idea Mike and for a great charity 👏 Keep up the fantastic work & videos well done 👏

Thank you Mike! Great instructions!!

I moved into a new house and the landlord cleared the very overgrown garden for us. I was glad but now there's a very cute hedgehog wandering around my garden looking a bit lost...

brilliant thank you so much

Looks great! However, the plastic over the top can cause issues of damp bedding. It prevents adequate ventilation and as the hedgehog breaths, the moisture from their breath causes condensation inside the house. This then drips back onto the bedding, resulting in damp and mould

Excellent video, very informative and easy to follow many thanks for sharing

Good tipps. I have in the moment 15 hedgehogs in care, but soon they will realise in the wild. I have also a house for hedgehogs in the garden, but the "door" is too smal. A 80og hedgehog can't go inside. I bought it in a shop. The hedgehogs in the garden prefer other, naturally, places.

Is there a specific size for their "sleeping area" & how many hedgehogs/hoglets would sleep in such a build?

Should the entrance not be a bit smaller? To stop wild cats from being able to enter, I was thinking 7 or 8 cm wide and 6 or 7 cm high, I suppose a cat would still be able to enter, might cut down on wind

Wonderful work Mike and Walter will be happy there I feel sure .As for your second hedgehog ..will there be second house or do they move in together .Great work and love watching 👍

Hello, do you treat the wood? What one is hedgehog friendly.

Love your videos Mike. I have loads of odds and sods of timber from an old picket fence. It was tanalised and treated with green shed treatment about 8 years ago. Would you think that it would be OK now to use for my hedgehog house, or do you think the hegehogs would still detect remnants of the treatment? It has that green haze often seen on old sawn timber in the garden. Keep up the good work - you've really inspired me.

Hi Mike! I am also planning to build a hedgehog house myself, I’ve got the hallway figured out, but what I’m wondering is how big the main room of the hedgehog needs to be at minimum. I’m aiming for a rectangular house, so I don’t want to make the main room bigger than it needs to be.. Can you tell me more about the measurements a hedgehog needs?

I was going to prepare 2 houses for my garden as have hedgehogs in my area but a fox has now started visiting my garden every night. They are always close by anyway I guess. What would you suggest, I would hate to set up what I originally thought was a safe haven - only to have them eaten by the fox 🙈

Hi mike I like your videos but I was wondering why you would build a house for them when you also say not to directly interact with them?

Hi! Thank you for the great video, exactly what I needed! Question: how can you try to help hedgehogs without helping rats at the same time. For example, the house you've built - won't rats also nest inside of them? I am new to all of this, so forgive me if it's a silly question.

Great video. Have seen it before but its now getting near the time of year where i will have to get the finger out and do the work, if you build it they will come. I have at least one, lost another (baby) on the road, so want to give him/her some luxury for the winter. How do you mean Walter has an insulated home ? Thanks for a great video.

How big does the sleeping area need to be for a female hedgehog please

I bought a hedgehog house and it comes with a removable partition. The partition goes the whole way across and has a hole in it. Should I leave it in there or do they prefer to make there own 'interior' and have more freedom without the wall. Or does the wall help with heat? Thanks

If you made a the interior structure from something that's not really weatherproof, such as 3D printed PLA plastic (should be non-toxic), then sprayed it over with outdoor-rated expanding foam (the waterproof stuff that sets like concrete), think that would make a viable hedgehog house? Realistically I'd probably just buy one, but I do own a 3d printer and cans of spray foam look cheaper than wood these days. If it were adequate to the hedgehogs needs these things could be whipped up pretty quick and not need any screws or other hardware.

Can treated tannalised timber be used ?

I'm not technically minded but do you think that this could be made using a 3d printer and would it be possible to add a long putter tunnel with rainproof insulation

Hi Mike great video, I just bought my wood, just a quick question can we put a wood preservative only on the outside or would that be bad for our little friends. 😀

Rather long video, but very comprehensive. Good idea, but is there away of keeping out unwanted, wana be squatters. Rats, whatever. I really like lil'hoggies and they deserve a luxerious, comfortable Hog'a' mininium.

Could have done without the music 😂