When can you start holding a baby hamster?

Answer 1

If you want to start holding your baby hamster you should atleast wait until some hair comes because the baby can get sick by people's germs so wait until it has some hair and could walk normally abit

Answer 2

you have to hold them very gentle they are very small cup your hands and let it sit there if you drop it wait a min. if it gets up and moves slowly pick it up and sit it where you got it and leave it alone for a while

Answer 3

If you hold them when they are still depending on their mother , it will cause her to reject the babies, because they rely mostly on there smell. The mother will think the babies are intruders because they have YOUR "smell". I would probably say the right time to hold them is about a couple a weeks. Two or more weeks would be fine. The mother won't reject the babies then. To be safe you should play with them when they have a layer of fur to cover themselves. (I had about 50 babies, but I DIDN'T want a hamster farm). I never had a baby rejected though. Mom hamsters can eat them to, but very rarely. (They have to be starving too) I think that moms rejecting them is very VERY rare. If you have Roborovski's you should look at Roborovski hamsters, a site completely devoted to Robos.

Answer 4

Around 14 day's would be the best. And if your planing to sell them you should wait for 31 day's.

Answer 5

they have to have fur in order for you to hold them or the mom will not reconize it as its own. trust, i been through this

Answer 6

An internet search revealed that baby hamsters should not be handled until they are 14 days old.

Answer 7

At 14 days old.

Answer 8

At 14 days.