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dwarf hamster babies
i don't know if anyone has ever had dwarf hamsters, but i do and yesterday i was cleaning out the cage and i saw three little pink things in the nest and it turned out one of my hamsters had babies. All three of the hamsters are female, i've checked and the breeder checked so i don't know what happened. i thinhk she was pregnant before we got her because we've only had them for a little while. Anyways, i was wondering if there is anything special I should do to take care of them? or does the mother do it herself? i really have no idea what to do. If anyone could halp me with this i'd be really happy. thanks.
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the mother basically does it her self but watch out for blood the mother sometimes bites their tale off
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I had mice who ended up having babies. Don't touch them until they begin to grow fur because the mother will kill them. When you clean the cage clean everything except where the mother and babies are. [ aviod that spot ] When they open their eyes, they normally have enough fur to be handled with, they will probably be jumpy because they are nervous.
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If you go onto google.com and look up care for baby hamsters or something like that you might find some information.. I would first tell your parents (if you live w/ them) and then figure out the next step.
Sorry if it didn't really help!
*Hope I helped*
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Well if you don't have a male in the cage, she got pregnant before you got her. The mother will take cate of the little ones. But make sure the mother gets pplenty to eat and drink and she has a clean cage. That's all you have to do. Hope I helped.
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ok well this happened to me
i thought my hamster was a boy and i came upstairs one day and saw 5 little babies, so i gave 3 away and kept 2, named them and all u need to do is make sure you keep them well fed and hydrated, bcus the runt died so i only had the mom and theone baby
one day abfter a month of having the little baby hamster i cam home and his skin was only there, the mom had eaten it bcus she didnt have enough food! so just do the same thing extra colorful
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We had a dwarf hamster who had babies. They're so cute! ;-)
First rule, don't touch the babies. Touching the babies can make the mother kill and eat them. (I know, awful)
Here is a good site that I used for info when we had dwarf hamsters:
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(Read the "Moms-To-Be" section too)
And here is the other site I had bookmarked for hamster info:
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Basically for the first two weeks, don't touch the babies or clean the cage. I offered our mother hamster little pieces of bread soaked in milk, some cheese, and some peanut butter to give her some extra nutrition & protein.
If you have another cage to put the other hamsters in, it would probably be best to keep them separate from mother and babies. Other hamsters might kill the babies, or stress the mother out to where she kills them. First time mothers are especially sensitive to being stressed out this way.
Good luck! Once they start toddling around the cage, there's hardly anything cuter! ;-)
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You can't have the male in the same cage as the mother and babies cause he will eat them, other than that i'm pretty sure that the mother does it all by herself.
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