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taylorjade2003
09-09-04, 08:16 AM 09-09-04
These are my three Syrian hamster babies.. two solid white and one solid black. They are now alittle over 2 weeks old and their eyes are starting to open today! I took these pics last night.

http://freewebs.com/sydnigirl/Babies2.JPG

http://freewebs.com/sydnigirl/Baby1.JPG

http://freewebs.com/sydnigirl/FionaBaby.JPG

*if anyone is wondering what they are eating in the first pic, it is my daughter's Gerber FingerFoods Fruit Puffs, they love them!
Padfoot
09-09-04, 08:23 AM 09-09-04
They are so cute!!!! I love the one in which mom is holding one up. 8) Adorable!
wheels
09-09-04, 01:05 PM 09-09-04
Nice babies you got there

Have you started touching them yet? I was just wondering, as it is still too early to do that.
LilWurm
09-09-04, 02:41 PM 09-09-04
Cute! I remember when my hammies had babies. My 2 "boy" hammies, so to be said. Lolz. It got pretty crazy around here for a while! Hammies everywhere! Unfortunately, a lot of them wound up killing each other. The rest I gave to friends.
taylorjade2003
09-09-04, 02:59 PM 09-09-04
No, I am not touching them yet....
wheels
09-09-04, 04:31 PM 09-09-04
Okay. Just making sure.

If they are 14 days old, then you only have 4 more days before you can touch them :)
LilWurm
09-09-04, 05:05 PM 09-09-04
My goodness ... so touchy. >.<

Anywho, I say they are adorable!
taylorjade2003
09-09-04, 05:17 PM 09-09-04
Who's touchy?

And they were born either late on the 24th or early the 25th. So they are... *thinking* 16 or 17 days old now?
LilWurm
09-09-04, 05:56 PM 09-09-04
Wheels is touchy. If you hold them, you hold them. Maybe you should and maybe you shouldn't, who's to say? They look like something I want to touch! Teehee!
wheels
09-09-04, 06:08 PM 09-09-04
LilWurm, if you hold a hamster who is under the age of 18 days, chances are that the mother will kill them, then eat them.

Taylorjade, even better :)
LilWurm
09-09-04, 06:22 PM 09-09-04
Interesting. I never had that problem. Maybe I just got lucky.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend you. :(
wheels
09-09-04, 06:23 PM 09-09-04
Not a problem. I know some people say 14 days is okay, but after going through 6 hamster pregnacies, I recommend waiting 18-21 days before touching the babies,
LilWurm
09-09-04, 06:29 PM 09-09-04
I guess I'm just ignorant because the information is no longer useful to me. All of my hammies are gone.

I do want a hairless syrian, though! But I'm only getting one hammie this time and will get it used to playing with me instead of another hammie. I hear Syrians are very solitary anyway.

That's good information, though!
wheels
09-09-04, 07:02 PM 09-09-04
Syrian's are a solitary breed. If you were to put 2 of them together, they would either harm each other, or kill each other.
taylorjade2003
09-10-04, 08:12 AM 09-10-04
If you get a hairless Syrian.. don't ever breed it! They are called "Alien Hamsters" and I read that Hairless moms do not lactate so you would have to breed a hairless male to a haired female and produce half and half. Also, there are many genectic defects with hairless hammies that you have to be careful of.
LilWurm
09-10-04, 02:08 PM 09-10-04
I read that about breeding them, too. But no worries ... that was why I said I was only getting one. First of all, they fight (usually to the death).

And second of all, I don't want to breed them. I have no intention of that at all. They're impossible to get rid of when I want them to find new homes, and they multiply way too fast for me! I just want one to love. Just one.