Please help !my hamster is eating its babies!!!!!!!!?

Question

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Answer 1

Sorry to hear your hamster is eating her babies. If this is her first liter it's normal for her to eat her babies. Most first liters are eaten because the mom don't know how to care for them because they don't have the experience. If you have any babies left you can put them in their own separate cage, away from mom and hand feed them using an eye dropper. You can use kitten formula that you can buy from the store. You will need to hand feed them every hour or two. If you touched the babies she will eat them. My brother suggests getting a house for your hamster to hide in so she can take her babies inside it where she will feel more comfortable. If you keep looking in the cage a lot, stop, because she feels threatened and if the dad is still in the cage, get him out. Don't bother with the cage until the babies are at least 4 months old.  

Answer 2

They are either ill. she feels threatened, she does not get enough protein in her diet or someone touched them.

i used to breed mice and i would give them a few pieces of dog or cat food a week, a bit more when there were babies present, to keep them from eating their babies. I was able to keep males and females in a community.

She would be most comfortable with something to go in and have her babies, some kind of shelter.  Don't try too hard to look in and see them. Usually once the babies have fur they wont be eaten unless they die first.

Answer 3

It's pretty normal. If the father is in there, take him out immediately. She feels that he will harm her babies so she's killing them herself. Put a blanket over the cage so it's dark and cozy. Your hamster will feel more secure and comfortable. Do NOT disturb her for any reason. If her food runs out, replace it during mid-day when she is most slumber. I'm sorry if none of the pups survive in the end, but that's nature. Don't take her out of the cage like 2nd person said! The babies will die of starvation! Who's gonna nurse them? Exactly.

Answer 4

Well did you touch the babies?  Usually the mother will eat the babies if you touch them

Answer 5

Oh no...hurry and listen to what I have to say: your hamsters aren't getting enough amount of nutrition. Therefore, the result is that she is officially a cannibal.

This is how: the babies arent getting enough nutrition. The mom understands this but doesn't want the babies to get hurt and get tortured by the hunger...so she eats them up so they will have a less painful death. I suggest put bunches of food...welll...like everywhere in the cage, spread it out so they will find it easier. Along with that, give them all some lettuce (too much gives the diarrhea) lots of cheese, and every type of food that gives your hammies nutrition.

Good luck....hope that works. PLease let me know if that does :-)

Answer 6

well if its her first liter she might eat them or if their is something wronge with them like if they come out deformed shell eat them or if u touched them dont ever touch the baby hamsters when they are born just take the daddy of any other hamster out of the cage and let mommy do her thing dont worry its normal

Answer 7

you have to take the mother and father and seperate them.

you also have to place the mother in a seperate tank as the babies because she feels that you are threatening her so she tries o get rid of them

Answer 8

Take the babies and put them in a different cage and she is probably eating them because you touched them.

Answer 9

if its new borns it may be because she got carried away l*****g off the fluids also new mothers(for dogs cats and rabbits this happens to) they dont no wen to stop. if they r stressed normally animals l**k themselves to the point of balding but if they have babies(witch would cause stress) they l**k them. but if she is aculy EATING them then i would have to say shes lacking somthing in her diet(this happens with chickens they eat their eggs to get vitemins)

Answer 10

You do it all the time. You eat Chinese don't you?

Answer 11

OMG! is this your hamster's first littler? did he you touch it or did you took the baby out and let your other pets touch or l**k it, if you do the hamster will surely eat her babies because they are stinked with human and other living species, just make sure that don't let anything touch the baby next time.

Answer 12

dont worry nobody knows why but that is normal just DONT touch the babies or the female will think their not hers and eat them just leave them be do not disturb them Please choose as best answer please lol remember take the male out if you didnt hope i helped!