May 3, 2008

• one hamster….two hamster……add one male…equals…two females with total of at least 12 babies

  That is right babies. We had two female hamsters (Bonnie and Snowflake) both give birth this morning. Bonnie was a big surprise as she has been living by herself for 21 days (guess she was busy with her brother the day before she got her own cage). I know that she had at least 4 babies. I do not know how many total for sure though.

  Then there is Snowflake. She lived with Clyde until after the birth today when we moved Clyde to his own cage.

  After getting over the shock of seeing that Bonnie was having babies, I went to look in on Clyde and Snowflake and was surprised to see that she too was giving birth. (I wasn’t too shocked as she was living with Clyde but both females on the same day was surprising)

  Snowflake has had at least 8 babies. She may have had more then that.

  When they are 6 or so days old and are moving around on their own, I hope to be able to take some pictures of them

  The picture below isn’t of my hamster babies, but it does give you an idea what they look like right now.

  

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