Hoglets spend the first part of their life flat, unable to ball, barely moveable faces, and blunt white quills while they sit under their mother. It's hard to get pics of these "pancakes" because hedgehog sows are normally considered rather easily stressed and much like hamsters prone to eating their young if disturbed. You aren't supposed to do anything for at least 2 weeks, possibly not even handle them until 4 weeks. Even in the case of lost hoglets from the nest you are supposed to use a spoon to move them and not get your scent on them. Well either these things have nothing to do with why hedgehogs abandon and eat their litters or mine just decided to ignore that part of the instruction manual. :lol: We have put hoglets by hand back into nests and peeked at them before 2 weeks since our first litters. One of our first litters the sow escaped the cage, gave birth in a closet, and we moved them all by hand to a new cage and nest. Didn't lose one. It was a scary cage design lesson though. Now we've gotten to peeking at them every day from the time they are do until we see pink. Adisa is my best sow so I didn't just take pictures of her pancakes this time. I picked one up and played with the macro setting on my camera. I still didn't take a lot of pics as Adisa huffed her annoyance but here are some "pancakes"
