Caring for Baby Hamster
Pet hamster is actually a high reproductive rate. After the age of 3 months, female hamsters can give birth when united with a male hamster. Therefore, if you have male and female hamsters are put together in a cage, you should get ready to have a baby hamster, not just one, but could some baby hamster once. Here are tips on caring for baby hamsters:
Do not handle the new-born baby hamsters, because hamsters that had held the baby could be eaten by its mother human. This is due to a hamster is a unique way to protect children is by eating her own child. If you want to move the baby hamsters, use a spoon to lift it.
Do not separate the parent hamster with her babies because the baby hamsters need milk from its mother for about 2-3 weeks.
When the parent is in the lactating guinea-pig, not too often view the parent because the parent hamster will feel disturbed, resulting in disruption of breastfeeding a baby hamster is discontinuous.
Give powder paper or fabric to a baby hamster is not cold. During the two weeks since the birth of a baby hamster, do not clean the cage. If you want to feed, just place it and do not look at your hamster could get him distracted.
