How can you tell when your female hamster is in heat?

Question

How can you tell when your female hamster is in heat?

Answer 1

Yeah, i agree with the above comment. If you are wanting to breed you really need to know what you are doing. Especially if you have Syrian hamsters because if you put 2 of them together at the wrong time one of them will end up klling the other. And also if you have babies and cant give them away you will need a seperate cage for each of them once they reach around 10 weeks.

Answer 2

Rub your hand along her spine right above her butt, if she arches her back and gets still then she's in heat..if not, then she's not.

Please don't breed, unless you do ALL the research about hamsters and their habits and what to do and when.  Hamster babies are cute, but they are sure hard to give away when the time comes.