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Wiki User
05/27/2010
you can hold them anytime you want, not just after they are born because the mother might not accept them they will smell like you and she won't nurse them, after that it depends on the mother and if she feels safe with you she will let you hold them if she doesn't be very very careful do not even think about holding them.
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