I tryed to breed my syrian hamsters but im not certain?
I put them together to breed in a plastic box with hay and they were sniffing eachother but later they started fighting and making high pitch noise is that mundane? please help asap.
No, its not mundane just like you and your face.
I'm not sure why you touch the need to breed your hamsters. There are many hamsters out there surrounded by need of loving homes. You are adding to the overpopulation of hamsters by breeding them. You are also possibly breeding genetic issues if you get these from a pet store rather than a breeder. Pet store hamsters are not bred for health or temperament. These hamsters can harbor genetic issues that could lead to babies near abnormal issues, aggression problems or health issues. Reputable breeders only breed for the betterment of the species and not for profit or for fun. In reality, breeders lose money more often than they gain money for breeding. You need to find homes for all the babies and as these are Syrian hamsters, none can live together so you will entail multiple cages and many homes.
Breeders make certain they have homes lined up before even breeding. They hold a waiting list that is twice as long (or more) as the maximum number of babies could be so if any homes slop through, there is still another one waiting for them. Again, never breed pets from pet stores!
When you breed you need to be very intensely careful with hamsters. They can and will fight to the extermination. In the wild, the male will get the feminine pregnant quickly then leave her quickly. In a small enclosure he cannot leave so he will attack her. Many people lose their beloved hamsters surrounded by this fashion. In answer to your fighting question, yes this is conventional and yes, very dangerous. They can die.
Please think twice around breeding. There's no need to breed with so many hamsters out here that do still need homes and no reason to breed if you do not hold hamsters from a healthy gene pool.
~Yelliez
Answers: The female is probably not in warmth or you may not have sexed them right. It's always a good belief to put the female in the males cage or she could seriously hurt him. I'd influence that it's most likely that she just isn't susceptible to breeding yet. Try again another time but remove them from each other immidietly right now so that neither is seriously injured.
Let them together for a few minutes at a time. They are solitary creatures.
Syrian hamsters aren't meant to go together.
In the uninhibited, they're barely together when the female is in heat- do you even know how to check when she's surrounded by heat, or what her timeline is?
On top of that, you need to introduce them first. You can't just chuck them within a box. This is why you people are called 'backyard breeders'- because you're irresponsible and stupid.
