As well as everything kids, newborn hamsters are very lovely. And likewise require care. Happy mom will obey an instinct and knows what to do. And how to behave to the owner not to do much harm to either babies, or parents?
It is necessary to get ready for childbirth in advanceHaving noticed that the samochka had a tummy, take care of it, and in particular about happy to daddy. The couple needs to be separated for a while. Joint stay can cost to a male life. Prepare the second cage. Wash up it and disinfect. On a bottom put material of which future mom will construct a cozy snug home for the posterity. Most of all straw approaches. You should not use fabric or cotton wool, they are dangerous to kids. Newborn hamsters very fragile, any thread can ruin them. Besides, it is necessary to follow rules of hygiene, and in fabric or cotton wool various microbes feel very comfortably. Do not forget that little hamsters need the shelter. And, of course, in a cage there have to be a feeding trough and a drinking bowl, and here the samochka can so far and do without toys, it will have enough classes.
Straw can seem excessively rigid, but the female will chew it and will turn into a soft bed.
Happy instant
The female will prepare a nest precisely by the time of childbirth. If in a cage there is a lodge, the homyachikha will leave to give birth there, and in the first days you, most likely, will not see kids. If there is no shelter, you will notice replenishment in family at once. Do not consider kids immediately after they were born. Mom perfectly feels which of them is viable and who is not so in several hours you can not get several cubs. It is not necessary to try to save them, it you can ruin the others. In general during this period it is necessary to minimize intervention in family affairs of your pets. Keep in mind that if the female well eats – the victims of natural selection will be less because she will be able to bring up more cubs.
Hamsters in one dung can be to dozen.
Do not do much harmNewborn hamsters cannot be touched at all. At young mother the sense of smell becomes aggravated, she sharply catches foreign smells which seem to it hostile. Therefore she, most likely, will cease to feed a hamster which you took in hands, and can even bite to death him. The best is to leave family for a while alone and to wait several days.
Look after mother
Special attention should be paid on the nursing mother. She has to have enough food. Every day add vitamins to a usual forage. In a cage always there has to be fresh water. In the first two days you should not carry out clear-out in a cage. In two days of kids with mom it will be already possible to replace to time in a separate box or a spare cage (but not to the father) to change filler and straw. Further you bring order to a cage each two days.
You enter a feeding up gradually
When hamsters a little grow up and will become covered with wool, begin to enter a feeding up. Put several cabbage leaves in a cage. Kids with pleasure will gnaw them. In several days when to cubs month is executed, it is possible to begin to give boiled chicken meat. Portions have to be small. Remove what hamsters did not eat from a cage. In one and a half months the family should be settled. The female can be sent to a male – now nothing threatens him. Kids in are already able to live without parental guardianship.