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Do hamsters help other hamsters babies?
Usually the mother of the hamsters wouldn't let them near their babies...
What to do while cleaning a hamsters cage while babies are in there?
If you clean the hamster's cage before the babies are old enough, the mother might kill her babies.
How do you get hamsters not to have babies?
Isolate the pregnant female from other hamsters, pets, people, and other distractions. Mother hamsters usually eat their babies because they feel threatened and cannot protect them. Male hamsters may eat babies, especially not their blood kin, as a way to ensure their own security. Never handle the mother or babies until the young are several days old and the mother feels comfortable in taking care of them.
How can you tell when hamsters have babies?
Lazy and bigger nipples means ready to give birth
How Many baby can a hamster have when pregnant?
Well all hamsters usually have about 2 to 20 babies. But make sure you have another cage for the mother once the babies are a few days old, otherwise the mother will either eat, or attack the babies.
If humans observe baby hamsters will the mother hamster eat the babies?
only if you touch the babies
If you forget to refill the hamsters water bottle and you have not separated the mother from the babies will the baby dwarf hamsters eat them mother dwarf hamster?
are your hamsters currently on their mother? hamsters repreduce milk and so maybe your hamsters are just drinking her milk. from kennedyage 11
Can you take two-week-old hamsters away from their mother?
No, wait until the babies are at least 18-21 days old at the most. Two weeks old, however, is the perfect time to begin handling the babies.
How do you change a hamsters cage with 12 baby hamsters?
It is very important that you do not touch the baby hamsters because then the mother will smell human on them, and she will eat the babies. What you need to do is transfer the babies with a plastic spoon or something to another location. The mother will eat her babies. So you want to keep them separate. After the babies are removed, clean the cage as usual.
How old is the female hamsters when they have a babies?
A female can have babies any age above 5 weeks old.
Do hamsters eat their babies when they put it in their check pouches?
No because the mother hamster is taking the baby hamsters to a safer place.
How can you save baby hamsters?
don't touch them until they become 2 to 3 weeks old .. separate the father hamster from the mother hamster and the babies .
