If you decided to get a hamster, for certain, except issues of education and maintenance interests you - a male it or a samochka. It seems that it is difficult to define a sex at such little small animal. Not each seller of pet-shop is able to do it. However it is quite real.
Instruction
1. For a start take a hamster for a nape and lift. In such situation the small animal will be extended and will place back pads in the parties. It is so much simpler to make out a floor. At females the anal and vaginal openings are located close. At males, on the contrary, the distance from genitals to an anus is quite big. Besides, if to a hamster month was already executed, then testicles can already be distinguished.
2. It is possible to define a sex and on a wool cover. At males of long-haired Syrian hamsters wool is longer, than at females. The hamster gentleman can brag of a smart fur coat, and at ladies long wool is shown unless in "short skirt" and a hair behind ears. One more characteristic sign distinguishing a male - if you hold a hamster for a nape, then the buttocks rather strongly hang down down.
3. If you have an Asian hamster, it is simpler to define a sex. Put a small animal on a palm, a tummy up. Hold a head a thumb. At a male distance between an anus and genitals big is also covered with fur. And in the middle between them you will see the hillock similar to small hernia or a sore. At the self-check it is distance small, without fur. On a paunch it is possible to see 2 rows of nipples.
4. The male and a female not too differ in character. Unless the female is slightly more tender in relation to the owner. Besides, she is in a feminine way cleaner. Litters the cage less and more carefully looks after own hair. And here if you decided to get couple of hamsters, then think - what for? Opinion on what to a hamster will be boring for one - the myth. On the contrary, maturing, hamsters will battle for the territory and food. Not to avoid fights. At the same time it is unimportant, same-sex hamsters sit in one cage or not. Females even more konfliktna.
5. If you decided to buy couple of hamsters for cultivation, then do not forget that it is possible to keep them in one cage only during pairing. Then it is necessary to seat animals on different cages.