Hamster Care

Residence Hamster

Hamsters can be kept either at home or in the terrarium are available at pet stores. The cage is easier to carry, the edges can be used for climbing. In the glass box, to prevent hamster throw out sawdust and other debris out of the cage, giving a better view to hamsters, more calm, and prevent the circumstances surrounding a dirty cage.

Because of a small hamster, a suitable home for hamsters always have to have a place at least 2 feet and a strong top because hamsters are a good climber. Glass box may not be higher than the length for air circulation, and because of a smaller, dwarf hamster needs a larger cage, at least 80 centimeters because their activities are great.
Avoid hazardous objects are dangerous for animals. Wood from conifers or plywood is not suitable for hamsters, because hamsters will whittle the wood and either glue or resin poisonous to them. The cage can be purchased from the store is equipped with multiple levels, connected by stairs.Hamster normal temperature for 18 to 26 ° C (64 to 80 ° F)

The floor of the dwelling hamsters are usually filled with sawdust. Sawdust is made from paper that has been discarded or wood with aroma-aroma is the most healthy. Cut off and eat the sawdust made from cedar, pine, may contain phenols that can damage the respiratory system, liver and skin of hamsters.

Mated Hamster

If they had been together in one cage of small, you only need to split your pair of hamsters in separate cages. But if you marry after the age of 10 weeks, will usually be a fight broke out first. Sometimes it can be very dangerous, although it can also directly suitable. Especially when each has been quarantined in a separate cage. If you do not want to risk injury at all. Combine the two in the same cage and give the boundary with the wire / glass or glass cages that separate but didempetkan so that they can only see each other but not united. After several days, please combine both.

Differentiating male and female hamster genital

How to distinguish the sex of the hamster is located at a distance between the anus and cock. If the type of female hamsters almost seemed no distance / meetings between the anus and cock. While the male species has a greater distance between the anus and cock. In addition to Campbell's kind of adult hamsters, there will be a yellow oily liquid that comes out from its center position. For more details, see the following picture:

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How Hamster Farming

Male hamsters have huge testicles according to their body size. Young hamster is more difficult to have sex.
Hamsters do fertilization at different ages depending on the species, but this can be done at the age of 1 month to 3 months. Male hamster fertilization can still perform all his life, but the female does not. Estrous female hamsters had approximately every three days.
Breeding season occurs from April to October, with 1 to 13 children born after a gestation period for 13 to 22 days. 'gestation occurred 16 to 18 days for Syrian hamsters, 18 to 21 days for the Russian hamsters, 21 to 23 days to Chinese hamsters and 23 to 30 for hamster Roborovski.

After a pregnant female hamsters, hamster parent will build nests and raise their children there. They are hairless, their eyes closed and very small. After 1 week, they started around their nest and eat. After 3 weeks, hamsters child can leave their nest. Except for the hamster Roborvski, the new can come out of the cage within 4 weeks. Typically, male and female hamsters are separated when the female hamster gave birth, to avoid undesirable things. Son of hamsters also should not be held, so as not to be eaten by the parent. After one week they begin to explore outside the nest. They have been fully completed after 3 weeks, or 4 weeks for hamsters Roborovski. Most people will sell the hamsters to shops when the hamsters aged 2 to 8 months.

Hamster

Hamsters are a type of rodent animals, there are various kinds in the world and almost there in every country. Hamsters belong to the subfamily cricetinae. This subfamily is divided into about 18 species, which are classified into six or seven genera.

Karakteristik

Hamster has a plump body, with a tail shorter than its body and has a furry ears, feet wide, short and stocky. Hamsters have long, thick fur, and feathers have different colors depending on the species of hamster, for example black, gray, white, brown, yellow and red. The bottom of hamster white to gray and black. Hamster Dzhungaria - among hobbyists known as the Winter White Hamster (Phodopus sungorus) and the striped dwarf hamster (Cricetulus barabensis) has a black line under the middle of the back. Dwarf desert hamsters (genus Phodopus) are smallest hamster, with a body length of 5 to 10 centimeters (about 2 to 4 inches), while the hamster is the biggest European hamster (Cricetus cricetus), with a body length of more than 34 inches, not including the short tail which has a length of 6 inches.

Habitat

Hamster habitat is located north of central Europe through Siberia, Mongolia, and northern China to Korea. Hamster habitat in the south stretching from Syria to Pakistan. They live in the desert border, which divegetasi dunes, hills at the foot of the mountain and lowland with bushes and rocky, river valleys, and vast grasslands, some also live in the fields planting. Geographical distribution of species groups described the hamster, for example, European hamster is found in central Europe and western Siberia and northwestern China, while the Syrian hamster (in some articles referred to as the golden hamster or golden hamster) are found only in a small town in northwestern Syria.

Food

Hamsters are omnivorous creatures. Their diet usually grain rice, but also includes fresh fruit, roots, green parts of plants, invertebrates and some other small animals (insects such as grasshoppers).

Hamsters carry food in their cheeks which included a bag to put into their food hole.  However, not all food suitable for hamsters. Some foods, such as the poisonous leaves of tomato, becoming the most dangerous foods for healthy hamsters. People's opinions about other unsafe food is causing their tails wet cucumber and citrus fruits. In both these opinions, there is something wrong. Cucumbers have very little good nutrition and can cause liver problems, and some hamsters do not like the taste of citrus fruits, but the citrus is safe for use in hamsters. Hamsters exposed to the disease of diabetes is not allowed to get food that contains high sugar content, such as fruit and corn. Hamster food components divided into 3 categories: dry, fresh, and food animals.

If we want to keep hamsters, the safest thing is to provide food in the form of fresh grain. In Indonesia there are few home businesses that make a hamster food from the grain. Choose whole grains are not preserved but are free of fleas and food color. For security reasons, should not provide food in the form of fresh leaves and instant food. Several types of fresh leaves may not be harmful to the hamster, but the majority of leaves have been contaminated with pesticides. Although few, hamsters susceptible to pesticides. Instant food are also given to the hamsters are not good because usually contain preservatives. Foods containing salt can cause loss of feathers hamste