Breeding
| If you are considering breeding, the female you would like to breed has to be well grown and the approximate minimum age is around eight weeks. Twelve weeks is more preferable for the common hamster. If you try it much older then the offspring may be undersized and the mother may not be able to feed them. Males can be mated a week earlier because they do not have the actual strain of bringing them up. If the male is not mature, he will not mate. Mating with hamsters is not like mating with any other rodent; you can�t just leave the hamsters together, come back and it is done. They both have to be taken out of their homes and put in a box, otherwise, if you meet them up in one of their cages, they will attack to defend their territory. |
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