2007-02-04 18:34:07 · 6 answers · asked by vampirepolice999 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
This is the fifth one of your questions I'm answering now and they all pertain to the female biting her pups!
What kind of hamsters do you have? If they are Syrian hamsters (the "typical" hamsters, not the dwarves) they need to ALWAYS be housed separately. Syrians are solitary animals. Never leave them together, especially when a female has pups.
You will be fortunate if any of the pups survive. Get the male out of there and then leave the female alone! Give her a ton of food so you only need to feed her once a week and make sure her water bottle is full. Leave her completely alone until you see the pups walking around the cage with their eyes open (they will wander around with their eyes still shut).
If you plan on keeping any pups, each pup will need its own cage. You should have done some research BEFORE breeding your hamsters. This situation would have been avoided if you had.
That's mute now. You need to focus on saving as many pups as you can. The only way you will be able to do that is to leave the mother and her pups alone. Alone means no male in her cage, ever.
-Janice
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2007-02-05 00:28:54 · answer #1 · answered by radiocricket 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I have gerbils and even though I isolate her during birth they all want to eat the babies. I have tried incubating and dropper feeding but they never live past three days. The internet site I saw said that they either feel threatened or have a protein deficiancy, hence they eat the babies....sad but true. Sometimes adults even eat the other adult in some cases, for apparently no reason..just the animal kingdom I guess. Ewww
2007-02-05 02:43:38 · answer #2 · answered by viola 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is the thing that i dont get as well. dont mamals need breast feeding. so how can the kids eat if we seperate them. i had hamster before. 4 adult hamster, i had them for one week and then they started to slaughter each other and i got one left. others lost the head or part of their bodies. so brutal. since then i never really reckon that hamsters are that cute. and my friend's, the mother eat all of her kids. niceee....
2007-02-05 02:43:23 · answer #3 · answered by williams 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep your scent out of cage, rub bedding on your hand if you need to touch inside cage.
2007-02-06 10:13:16 · answer #4 · answered by sandy e 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You should seperate them. You'll find the reason why in the above comment.
2007-02-05 02:41:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
SHE IS EATING THEM !!!!!!!!!!! IT IS AN INNATE MECHANISM TO SURVIVE . I think they eat some so that the other babies have a chance YIKES"""""" Sorry i hope I am wrong you may need to dropper fed them
2007-02-05 02:39:52 · answer #6 · answered by sweet pea 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋