In June 2010, when I was walikg down to give the chickens and ducks their lunchtime wheat, I nearly stepped on a young hedgehog, curled up on the track. I knew it was bad for hedgehogs to be outside in the daylight, so I picked him up and put him safely in a hutch. He did not more so I put a heatpad in with him and he snuggled up to it. The next day he had still not eaten, so I offered him some syringed chicken cat food, this seemed to kick start him, because I had to tip him out of the food bowl that night and since then he thrived. In JUly we put him outside in a hutch, tucked away in the trees, we will keep him there for a few weeks to enure he is coping and them release him. I hope he will continue to use the hutch as a home. For the time being we have called him Thistle.