I've had my hamster now for about 2 months and when I bought her I was told she was a boy, two weeks later she had 10 baby hamsters. I think she is pregnant again as shes getting a bit fat like she was before, is it possible for them to get pregenant with their own babies when the babies are 6 weeks old? How do I tell if she is pregnant?
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Babies are hit puberty at 4 weeks- YES, it's possible you'll have more babies on the way.
You should have sperated the male ham's from the females 2 weeks ago. She's almost certainly pregnant, and chances are, so are some of the other girls. Hamsters mate every 4 days until a pregnancy occures. Let's say there's 6 boys, and 4 baby girls, plus mom. If each of 5 get pregnant, you're looking at about a week until a litter of anywhere from 10-50 babies are going to be born.
Seperate the males from the females today. If they are syrians (also known as Golden or Teddy bear hamsters), they need to ALL be seperated. Syrians are solitary hamsters, and keeping them together much longer will create bloody results. Literally.
If they are dwarves, seperate them into around 4 cages- half the boys in 1, half the boys in another, half the girls in 1, and half the girls in another.
You'll know in a week's time whether or not you'll wind up with more babies.
If you can't handle the babies you have now, and don't think you can handle LOTS of babies soon, take them into the pet shop you got the mom from, and ask if they will buy them from you. Some will, some won't. That could help you get rid of some of the 11 babies.
In the mean time, clean the mom's cage VERY thouroughly now, and then put in some healthy snacks, such as cucumber slices.
You probably didn't realize at the time just what was involved, but you probably should have thouroughly researched babies when you first discovered the new pups. This would have helped you to avoid this problem.
As the babies won't breed until they are 4 weeks old, I'm estimating a birth time of next week, based on about 2 1/2 weeks to 3 weeks gestation periods.
Below is a site on how to sex a baby hamster, both syrian %26 dwarf. I would really recommend getting rid of some of them, though, as 11 are a lot for someone who only wanted 1 to begin with, and not counting the babies you are going to have sometime in the next week.
http://www.hamsterific.com/hamsteruniver.
squeez hard..
It's something called baby fat all female get that way.
yes.but it might just be fat..
i don't know but when it is take the dad away or she will eat him
really really fat and she has babies
It looks bigger than usually i guess. I have never had a preganet hamster
when ur hamster is pregnate the little nipples starts to come out when u touch her stomach it feels more slippery than usuall sh starts to move less so make sure u put the food and water next to her if she does have babies make sure the bed hamster and everything is kept very very dry the first time she has the babies you can keep the father in the cage with the little ones but the second or third time you can seperate them the mother has enough experience to do it by herself if you need more help comtact me @
black_stars951@yahoo.com
hoped i helped!
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