When can you tell that a Female Hamster is PREGNANT???

Question

Because I have a Female Hamster and a Male and they are called the "Teddy Bear Hamsters" and I also want to know what will I do when they already have babies. Some said that we SHOULD put the Male into another cage. Is that TRUE?? Why???

Answer 1

Well, a few days before she has her babies she will start seriously tearing paper towels or toilet paper up to make a nest to have them in a comfortable place, and chasing every other hamster away. Up until then she will start looking thicker and will also make a nest out of paper towels or toilet paper, but the "thicker" is hard to tell and she won't be tearing the paper apart any more than usual. When she is getting ready to have them she will go in Professional Nest Builder Mode, not lets-kinda-put-these-soft-things in-a-pile-to-sit-in mode.

You separate them so they don't have more babies. And if he is with her getting ready to have the babies then she will fight with him because she wants to be alone when it happens. But you don't have to separate them. Just put at least three hiding places in with the two of them so he can claim one as his own place. Also, hamsters are a little different than other rodents because the female won't get pregnant again until the babies are weaned and that will be weeks after they are born.

Answer 2

Shut up, calm down.

Teddy bear hamsters should not /live/ together. Figure out when the female is in heat and then put the male in there for a couple of hours, with you superivising them, and then take him out and put him in a different cage.

Simple. They should not live together or they will fight to the death, despite their genders. In the wild, they barely come together to mate. And yes, you need the male in another cage even if they could live together, simply because he's likely to kill the babies when they're born, or cause the mother to kill them.

Simple- you need two cages, one for male, one for female.

You shouldn't breed if you don't know the genetics of the hamster- if you can't trace them to their grandparents and check they have no genetic defaults, you shouldn't breed them as you could breed a poor and sickly line of hamsters.

And you should never breed pet store hamsters.

Answer 3

You generally can't tell until a couple of days before the litter is born (since it's about a 20 day pregnancy). She may look a bit bigger. Other than that, it's not that easy to tell.

Answer 4

You can tell when it has babies. The babies are ugly at first, tiny and naked. You should put the male in another cage because he might get territorial. The mother can be dangerous too though, I had a hamster when I was little that ate some of her babies.

Answer 5

SHUT UP CALM DOWN OK................

first you have to clean the cage be4 your hamster has the babies and yea it is true about keeping the dad away if you don't the dad will eat the poor little babies and the mom will eat the dad and eventually the mom will 4 eventually die of a disease

Answer 6

It is very difficult to tell. She will only look more fat than usual about 2 days before giving birth. She may be building a nest and will usually be more active than usual. Dwarves are pregnant for around 19-21 days (Syrians only 16 days) so the best thing to do is to wait and see! When she does give birth, remember not to touch the babies

Since Syrians are solitary animals, breeding is more difficult than with dwarfs, who cohabitate. Hamsters can be sexually mature as early as 28 days old. However, the female should not be bred until she is between three and four months of age. (Males should be the same age before their first encounter with a female.) If she is too young the result is generally a small litter, poor quality pups and a difficult time for the female. An older female bred for the first time may experience extreme difficulties at birth, occasionally resulting in death for the mother. Females can only mate during oestrus (when in heat or in season), which occurs every four days. Putting a male and female together when the female is not in heat could result in a fight. Females have been known to seriously injure or even kill a male if there is no intervention. (If squabbling does begin, separate them immediately and try again the next evening.)

Because hamsters are nocturnal animals, mating should be done in the early evening. (In the wild, they normally mate after sundown.) Generally speaking, a female in heat will be more active and will "freeze" (body pressed to floor and tail up) when her back is stroked. Never put the male in the female's cage - there is likely to be a fight even if she is in heat. It is best to place the male in a separate container with a small amount of bedding in the bottom and then introduce the female. If she is in heat, she will freeze, he will mount, dismount and wash himself several times. They should be allowed at least 20 minutes - unless one of them shows signs of loosing interest. (Be aware that there are probably as many different methods of breeding Syrian hamsters as there are hamster breeders, but this has have been proven to be the safest and most successful method for most breeders.)

The Syrian has one of the shortest gestation periods (length of pregnancy) of all animals - between 15 and 17 days. Normally, she will begin to show signs of "bulging" on about the ninth or tenth day. By the time she is near delivery, she will look like she is carrying fully packed saddlebags! Her environment should be stress-free throughout her pregnancy and for at least the first ten days after the litter is born.

The newborn pups don't have any fur, their eyes are closed, and they're still cute.They can't see, or hear, but they can already smell and move themselves around by theirfront feet. If one does stray from the nest the mother will scoop him up and return him, don't worry, hamster mom's know what they're doing. Resist the temptation to pick them up. The mom won't like this and it could even cause her to abandon, or even worse, eat the babies. Just watch them and wait around two weeks before handling them.

At two weeks the puppies will have a soft fur coat and will be running around raising havoc in the cage. Around three weeks they'll begin leaving their mother for longer periods of time to explore and look for food on their own. They'll hardly ever fight, and will begin to burrow and hoard food. Yep they're hamsters all right!

At three to four weeks old a baby Syrian hamster is ready to go live on his own. If left with brothers and sisters a Syrian hamster will fight them viciously. So never leave them in mixed s*x groups.

But you've already found them good homes long ago, right?

Yea male hamster shouldn't be with the female when the female is pregnant Cause the female would think dat is a animal dat wat to kill her babies so she might eat the babies to protect them or she would go and fight the hamster so u have to separated so it hard work so if i was u  i wouldn't get her pregnant u will need to buy a lot of food etc.