Baby Dwarf Hamsters Just started walking hmm..?
So today my 2 baby dwarf hamsters( two weeks and 1 day old) own just started to walk around the cage beside their mom. I've only seen two and I hear another one in the little underground cave thing she made I feel so bad that I haven't cleaned the shut within since the night before she gave birth, because I didn't know whether i could touch the babies. I want to clean the cage but I don't want the mom to get barmy. I have pet her while the babies were around, but not them yet.
So one of my question is, can I touch the babies now or is it still too early?
Could I clean the hold by taking her and the babies out?
Is 6 week too long or just right, for me to connect the cage the dad is within with the mom and the babies?
I have a picture of them I'm not sure whether they are too small but I think they are perfectly healthy. :)
http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g5/Blu...
my hamster gave birth too weeks ago and my vet said you can touch them when in that 2 weeks oldso i think your fine because they already have fur
I think amanda said it best. But I have to right to be heard they are so cute. I bred dwarf hamsters once & ended up for a 60 gallon tank holding 32 babies (we started with 7 females & 5 males but single the strongest male survived the first week) once they could move I had to separate them from both the moms & the dad. if you plan on keeping them adjectives invest in more cages.
Answers: NOw is almost the time you will see them out and about...she is just now letting them out, but i would voice they have been romping around in the hole in the ground. YOu done the right thing by not touching them or cleaning her cage. By, touching them you can cause her to assassinate them because of the oils on your skin. By cleaning the cage you can stress her and threaten her which then lead to making her kill them. Fresh food and water is all she would involve. Once the babies have fur you can touch them and definitely now that they are walking around external the cave. You can remove them to clean the cage presently...just be sure NOT to remove the nest outta there, it still requests to stay in the cage. DO NOT connect the daddy cage at any given point. Once you hold let hamsters have seperate cages you cannot reconnect them, they will spar. They do the territorial thing...it would be like some stranger trying to move in the bedroom near you. For the sake of the mommy and the babies leave the cages the way they are. Hope I help!
Amanda w/ Bert's Pet Center
(Successfully bred and raise hamsters and dwarf hamsters)
With gerbils, at least to my sensitive... when breeding and after the pups are born you never want to change the bedding. The mother will spend hours making a nest and getting things just right instead of caring for the pups, neglect them.
So my advice is, yes. You can pick them up and play with them. It shouldn't make the mom bashful at all (this is just with gerbils, which I suppose is the same concept) so yeah...
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