When It Is Okay To Pick Up Baby Hamsters

Would it be okay if you picked up baby hamsters with a glove on?

Breeding hamsters is really difficult. It's not just the scent that can cause a mother to abandon or kill her babies. It's also any kind of stress or disturbance that makes the mother feel threatened. I don't know about this 'mother not recognizing them' theory, I think most cases I've heard have been put down to the mother being threatened and it's kind of a natural response to 'save' her babies from the threat.

Anyway, whatever the reason behind it is, don't handle them at all. If your hamster is pregnant, leave her to it and don't disturb her. If she gives birth, don't clean the cage for a couple of weeks, just let her nurse her babies.

Hopefully you wont get a pregnant hamster though!

When can I pick up my baby dwarf hamsters?

Two weeks is old enough to handle them.
If you are nervous, there are a few steps of precaution you can take:
First, wash your hands without soap.
Dry your hands and pick up some unused hamster bedding.
Rub it all over your hands to disquise the scent.
Now, hold your mama hamster for a minute or two to pick up her scent. Then, put her in her hamster ball or box or whatever you put her in when you clean the cage.
Now, you can hold the babies. Be careful not to drop them.
Don't hold them longer than ten minutes.
When you are done, put them back in the cage and in their nest. Cover them with a little bit of bedding and let them squirm around to get rid of the scent. Put some fresh food and treats in mama's food dish. Take her out of the place you had her in, hold her for a minute, and put her in the food dish.
That's the safest way to possibly handle them if your worried. But I wouldn't worry.

Can you use a spoon to pick up baby hamsters?

NO NO NO!!!! if your scared to pick them up then just wear gloves they can sense your fear and they will feed off you, your tense there tense, your scared there scared.....etc. When you hold them stay calm and relaxed and your hammie will be calm and relaxed. BTW i know in this site it says you can pick your hammie up by the scruff of the neck, but please do not use this method you can hurt your hammie by doing it this way.

Here is a site that can help you.
http://www.hamsterhideout.com/handling.h...

Can I hold my baby hamsters?

If the exterior of the glove has never contacted any biological matter, other than the indervidual hamster, it is fine.

But if you touched the gloves outer surface when you opened the packet,
Or if the glove was handled during manufacturing,
Then it already smells of humans and cannot be cleaned off.

Are baby hamsters more easy to tame?

Baby hamsters can be very easy to tame but make sure you start handling them as soon as they are weaned. Which is about two weeks after they are born.

Just hold them and be careful since they are jumpy and very quick since they are tiny.

Sometimes you'll get an anti-social hamster but just keep working with it and most of the time it will settle down.

They can be very social pets if you are willing to work with them. All of my hamsters love to be hand fed, pet, picked up...everything you mentioned.

Goodluck!

Is touching baby hamsters at 10 days old bad?

Alright if the baby hamster can walk around eat food and drink water and other sources.
and
the mother of the babys don't do nothing
than the mother of the babys trust you
but some people say babies at the age of 10 days can be destroyed
i disagree with that because i have a strong relationship with my hamster (Snowball) and she just recently had babies on May 21,2008 and i touch them and they are only 5 days old.
And she has not destroyed them or killed them. She just smells them and goes back to letting them feed off her.

but since you have done this before with your hamsters and her baby's then she is used too it.

and just to be on the safe side- sit a pair of latex gloves in hamster bedding and then pick them up so when she does smell them she will still smell the bedding on them

P.S. -I also Heard That when they Are 15 Days Old They Can not be Killed

and the weaning from mom depends on type of hamster like:
Syrian-21 Days
Campbell's-21 Days
Winter Whites-20 Days
Roborovski-19 Days
Chinese-21 Days

So Enjoy

Is it true that you can pick your hamster up by the skin on their shoulders?

only in a dire emergency. But, otherwise, you are risking your hamster losing trust in you.... and this will not help make it a tamer, calmer animal.... not to mention, if you dont get it just right, the animal can slip around and bite you! The worst bite I have EVER gotten from a small cage animal / pocket pet was from a syrian hamster.

A few tips on handling hamsters:
Never try to pick up a sleeping hamster.
Never pick up a hamster from the rear end.
Alway let the animal see you coming, from the front... and move directly with out fear.
Always cup them securely in your hands until you both are fairly assured what the other is doing (dropping a hamster will also affect his trust in you, if the fall does not kill him).
I have rarely seen a Syrian hamster that could not be tamed.