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MY MOTHER HAMPSTER IS TRYING TO EAT HER BABIES I NEED INFO !!!! WHAT DO I DO!!!

i dont know the answer, but it was so sad that i asked around my friends and looked it up, apparently the answer is about this.

1 she may be too young to cope
2 the litter might be sickly and she will destroy them rather than waste effort raising em
3 she might be too sickly to cope with feeding them
4 too many in litter for her to feed them all so she makes litter smaller
5 interfernece, if babies scent is changed she will view them as competitors and intruders

it sounds awful but if she is destroying her litter for it may be best to leave her alone and hope she will settle, coz if its reasons 2-4 then she will stop and interefering will put the other babbies at risk

give her high protien foods (more protein = more milk and will help her raise litter)cheese scrambled egg cooked meats are all good, not ham tho as is salty

if she carries on fostering or handrearing is the best answer

good luck with the rescue mission
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theres a good link my cousin recommended, she breeds the little russian things, but i guess it will be similer
Ps, i cant remember if im sposed to post urls here, but if im not please dont anyone be mad coz i thinks this one might be important
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let me know coz theres ways u can reduce the risk of drowning em or flooding their lungs... ive handreared and fed lotsa strange things including poorly hammies who dont like medicine lol

This is what happens when a mother hamster is

-stressed
-too young, small or weak to handle the babies
-sometimes they are just bad moms

there is little you can do other than keeping her under low stress like low noise levels and not holding her and making sure she has plenty of food and water at all times. The high protein food suggerstion is a very good one. This is my experience after a few years of breeding many different females. The best breeders are usually the calmer females who don't bite or freak out when humans come near.

~Andrea