Is there anything I should or shouldn't do? Should i feed it anythign special?
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if she starts to show some 'signs' like bitting you when you hold her in hand (which she doesn't do that usually), means she is about to due and you should start somer preparations like : put her and her cage in a quiet and dark place. do not disturb her unless feeding her.
after she gave birth to her babies, DO NOT DISTURB HER AND HER BABIES. if she feels stress and threatened, she will eat her babies. ALSO%26lt; DO NOT TOUCH HER BABIES TILL 1-2 WEEKS OLD. you leave your smell on the babies when you touch them. that will make the mother hamster couln't recognise her babies and eat them.
if you are keeping dwarf hamsters it is not necessary to saperate the father from mother and babies. male dwarf hamster willl help baby-sitting for the mother. (that's what my hamster did. he actually keep the babies under his belly to keep them warm when the mother hamster couldn't take care of all babies.) if yoyu are keeping other types of hamsters, better saperate them.
after giving birth, mother need nutrients. just give ehr some extra food as she also need extra energy to take care of babies and feeding the babies. you can also give her some protein-rich food. like, bread soaked in milk and boiled egg white.
when the babies are about 2 weeks, you can start hearing them making noises and moving around in the cage. take care and enjoy the feeling of taking care of the baby hamsters. when you see them moving in the cage happily, you willbe proud of yourself.
Take her to the vet. Your vet will be able to give you explicit instructions on exactly what to do. You want the babies to be healthy, so the vet is your best bet. Good Luck!!
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Quick get some clean towels and boil water.
take her to lamaze
Just give her a place to hide in to have her babies and lots of bedding. I don't know of a special diet, but my hamster liked grapes as a treat, and carrots. Be prepared, sometimes they have been known to eat their young. It grossed me out when I found this out!
Take her to the vet. She'll probaly have an ultrasound and be 'checked up.'
Leave her be she will do fine. I no I have been there with my gal Snoopy, she had 6 %26 I sold them all.
The food you normaly feed her will probably do fine. She will want to "nest" so make sure she has plenty of bedding materials and a place where she feels secure. Hamsters have had babies for thousand of generations without us, she won't need much help.
Unless you are prepared to watch them eat their young as they are known to do, get instuctions from a vet on what to do or take it to the vet until she has her young.
keep the babies and the 'mommas' seperate when they are about 2 days old because the 'momma' will eat the babies head off. . . . . . . :(
My son had hamsters that had babies several times. We did nothing special like taking them to the Vet. Personally I think that would be a waste of money. Make sure you give the mother plenty of bedding material to make her nest with, and keep plenty of food and water available. I would highly recommend separating the male so that he will not kill the babies. Before you know it they will grow up. We sold them back to the local Pet Store. Well, actually they gave us credit. Not much, like fifty cents each. Just enough to buy some future food or supplies with. Just make sure you take them some where that is going to sell them as pets and not food for snakes. Hope this helps.
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