July 22, 2010

Do you know...

  • Hamster birth litter can be as many as 18 pups !!!

  • Hamster pups are born blind and only starts to open their eyes around 10th day

  • Each hamster pup recognize their mother's scent and will always feed on the same milking tits.

  • Hamster pups are usually wean around 14-21days and during weaning period, pups will drink milk and eat solid food at the same time.

  • Mother of the litter will eat her pups if she is under stress or under threat or under nutrition

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi interesting blog.... i also kept two adorable dwarf hamsters. Can you help me? Right now im in dilemma as the mother already gave birth to the kids but seem to abandon them? How I do know whether the mother do milked them? or what should I do to help the kids? Thank you so much....

Janlyn Seow said...

Hi there, so sorry that I didn't realised I have comments in my blog until I was doing a mini update here.
Either Way, please refer to this post that I just post out : http://hamsterpamper.blogspot.com/2012/03/mother-hamster-abandoning-hamsters-pups.html