Please can you inform me everything you know going on for breeding russian dwarf hamsters?
i want to breed my two russian dwarf hamster with each other and i just required to know anything you know!!
thanks! :)
put them together and that's it.
I bred them within college and I was told, (and it was successful multiple times), to just give up them alone and there was nothing I could do. they will most potential breed with each other. sometimes they will not because of their demeanors, some females are finicky. I had mine over six months since they mated the first time, then immediately following the litter birth, she get pregnant again. I know its probably not the answer you are looking for, but that's all I can say.
Answers: Well, first, there are many abundant color variation.
There are wilds aka Agoute and they're standard for pet stores. They're blackish brown with a bit of a wan tint towards the belly. If you breed, you get more of these then other colors normally.
There is albino. If you breed it to another color, you'll get wild. Breed it to another albino, you'll get adjectives albinos
There is argente. It's orangey colored and can have red or black eyes. red eyes are more common. These guys result from breeding just in the order of as much as wilds.
There's opal They're grey with black eyes and an off white tummy.
There's black. Hardest to breed. Pet store blacks are commonly unhealthy
These are you basic colors.
Now, a black and opal will produce some blues. They're solid bluish grey and might have white lower than the chin
Black and red eyed argente will produce some doves. They're light solid brown with red eyes. May have white underneath shin
Black and black eyed argent will make chocolates. Darker browm with black eyes.
R.E. Argentes and opal make lilac fawn. A gray orange color more towardss orange and have red eyes.
B.E. Argentes and opal be paid blue fawns. Gray orange more towards gray with black eyes.
After this, breeding combined colors near other combined colored hamsters sometimes make harder to get colors, such as Lilac
Lilacs can be red eyed or black eyed and are light to gloomy silver. Hard to breed.
Champagnes are the hardest color to breed. They're light kinda transparent light brown cream colored. approaching only 1 out of a 100 turn out this color. You have to mix every color together. very frozen.
now, there are different fur types.
There's mottled- mostly white with colored spots. Breeding one mott. to a non mott should produce partially a litter of mottled. Shine a light into their eyes. If there's a red tint, don't breed to another mottled with red tint. It will produce 1/3 of a litter that is solid white, eyeless, and toothless. It's a defunct gene. The babies solely last a max of 2 weeks.
There's platinum- mostly white with some colored hairs generally on head back sides and butt. Almost always still have it's back stripe and some on head. I once had one that have a gray dot on its nose and gray ears only, no stripe. Same with mottleds, one plat parent and one non plat parent should hold ha;f a litter of plats
silky, aka satin. Hamster has longer but thiner fur. very very soft. to win a silky you need to breed 2 hamsters that are silkies together, or 2 hamsters that have silky in their recent blood lines.
in a minute to breed you put 2 opposite gendered hams in a cage. You can do this for always, or for 10 days. 10 days will ensure they're together for at least 2 heat cycles.
You'll notice whether she's pregnant that she'll eat more and stash more and her hips will get super wide. Some males are strange, and whether left in the cage untill a few days back birth will even try to start storing water in their pouches to bring to the nest. Not all do this.
You can set out the male in with the womanly because dwarfs don't normally eat their young resembling syrians, but to be careful, you may want to separate them until the babies are 2 weeks old. If the male is super friendly and he never bites you, and whether the female starts arguments with him instead of him with her. Basically whether you really trust him you can leave him in. I've had comparatively a few males I've left in before.
Again, a trust issue... you shouldn't touch the babies until they're 2 weeks ancient. A lot of times you can even touch after a week.
Now if your female trusts and likes you profoundly, you can normally touch them obn the first day, but bring the female and possible mannish out of the cage before doing so.
ONLY DO THIS IF YOU ARE 100% SURE THAT YOUR HAMSTER IS COMFORTABLE WITH YOU!
to be on the safe side, for the first litter I'd hang about 2 weeks.
Babies need to be with mom for a minimal of 4 weeks. 6-8 is better but sometimes mommy will get feed up with them and you'll fear her hurting them at about 4 weeks. Never do this ahead of time.
I've typed so much I can't think of anything else at the moment...lol...
But I'm sure this will help you greatly
Okay, umm well you introduce them using a long method, look on the trellis.
Umm then you keep them together for 7days
when the female get pregnant remove the male cos' he'll eat the babys.
or kill them..
At 4 wks antediluvian remove them from their mother and seperate the boys and the girls.
ok, i've NEVER breed them before, or owned them, but i am soon(: but i enjoy done research and ran across a few things on breeding. ok, for starters, i know for the syrian hamster you ALWAYS put the female in the male's coop because females are more territorial. make sure you have gloves within case a fight breaks out. but i'm not sure whether this is how it is with dwarfs because they can be in groups of the same sex, i'm not certain about the opposite sex? but once they mate,l get the masculine out of there because as soon as she has the babies, he'll just find her pregnant again and you'll have more than you bargained for. like i said, i'm no expert, it's simply what i seen online..good luck!
i will tell you what i know and it is sweet F A
From my experience in breeding hamsters, a HORRIBLE idea.
My niece had this dwarf hamster, she get it pregnant, and she had her babies, and the babies were mating beside the mom and eating eachother, it was horrible.
