My fiance's dwarf hamster just had babies! please help?

Question

please provide me with basic tips on caring 4 them, theyre a lot, will they all live? How fast do they grow? should we keep the daddy with them? & btw her belly is still large, is it possible she could still have even more inside her? Just give me as much info as possible 2 get the best answer. Thx to all ^^

Answer 1

heres some info for you.....

http://www.hamsterhideout.com/breeding.html

http://www.hamsterific.com/BreedingDwarfs.cfm

http://www.aqualandpetsplus.com/Animal,%20Hamster%20II.htm

http://www.hamperhams.co.uk/baby_ww/hhbaby1.htm

I hope this helps and congrats!

Answer 2

first you need to remove the mail they most often will eat the babies.
second leave mom and babes alone only feed and water for the first week at least. If she is disturbed she may also eat the babies.There is no way to say how many will live.
They should be weaned about 5 weeks old.
now you need to separate the babies by sex as they can now start breeding at 7-8 weeks old don't leave the females with mom and you can't put the males with dad.
Unless you want more babies don't put dad and mom together again they are worse than rabbits.
Good luck.

Answer 3

I don't know about dwarf hamsters but I know with syrian hamsters you have to seperate the male & female hamster almost immediately otherwise they will fight, & the male would eat the babies, & so would the female if they didn't consume enough protein in their Diets.
If your dwarf hamsters get along, then there's no problem keeping them together, but they could have even more babies..
Just be careful. & congrats =].