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How To Raise Hamsters
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How To Raise Hamsters

Your Step By Step Guide To Raising Hamsters
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 7/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • How To Raise Hamsters

Course content

1 section • 13 lectures • 49m total length

  • Part 15:15

    Learn how to research and choose hamsters as pets, focusing on adoption over breeding, recognizing health signs, and ensuring safe, supervised care for children.

  • Part 23:50

    Explore the hamster species—Syrian, Chinese, Winter White, Campbell's Russian, and robo hamster—and their social needs. Learn which work for beginners and why mixing species or sexes is advised against.

  • Part 33:16

    Learn how to house multiple hamsters safely with two water bottles and two wheels, multiple nests, a single appropriately sized cage, and avoid using multiple cages to prevent fights.

  • Part 41:11

    Discover why hamsters may fight despite proper care, and how to prepare with a spare cage, while noting that play fighting is normal and hamsters often sleep together.

  • Part 511:21

    Set up the hamster's home before purchase to reduce stress. Choose cages with space (360 square inches minimum) and provide enrichment, bedding, and appropriately sized wheels to support natural behaviors.

  • Part 64:53

    Learn to craft a balanced hamster diet with a high quality mix, seed options, fresh vegetables and herbs, safe proteins, and a night-time feeding plan that avoids unsafe foods.

  • Part 75:12

    Tame hamsters by scenting them with unscented toilet paper, building trust through calm handling, ensuring cages meet 360 square inches to prevent cage territorial behavior.

  • Part 84:12

    Learn to care for long-haired Syrian hamsters: brush to prevent tangles, select non-sticking bedding, trim nails safely, and manage temperature with cooling methods.

  • Part 91:05

    Identify diabetes, especially Campbell's Russian and winter white hamsters with genetic risk, by recognizing symptoms like drinking and urination, weight loss, and lethargy, and test with a store-bought diabetes test.

  • Part 103:20

    Learn to recognize hamster illnesses and importance of a hamster savvy vet, and how timely antibiotic treatment and hydration—via juicy foods and syringe feeding—can improve survival, especially with wet tail.

  • Part 110:49

    Identify antibiotics that are toxic to hamsters and avoid them; learn which are unsafe, including penicillin, amoxicillin, ampicillin, streptomycin, tetracyclines, and vancomycin, and rely on a hamster-savvy vet.

  • Part 121:19

    Identify signs of old age in hamsters and distinguish them from illnesses, and support aging pets with diet, vigilance, and comfort such as a lowered water bottle and extra bedding.

  • Part 133:32

    Learn to prevent accidental hamster pregnancies by creating a stress-free environment with quiet, ample food and bedding, avoid touching babies, and separate male pups at five to six weeks.

Requirements

  • How To Raise Hamsters

Description

This guide provides many helpful facts and tips about hamsters and it is all conveniently in one guide, rather than having to search the internet and books for reliable information you can easily find out how to care for hamsters from this easy to read, step by step book. It provides information on all the important parts of hamster care, such as diet, which is commonly something that many hamster owners are unsure of. Diet plays a large part in whether or not you will raise healthy hamsters so this is important to understand.

It gives detailed information on how frequently vegetables and other foods should be fed, and which hamster seed mixes are best. The type of sand to choose and the proper wheel size are other important aspects that hamster owners should be aware of. Many owners don’t know of the dangers of having small wheels or of using sand sold for hamsters and chinchillas. Many other things you need to know if you’re going to raise a hamster are included in this course, from basic care, to less known things like information on how to care for sick hamsters, information on wet tail, diabetes, and what antibiotics are toxic to hamsters.

Many of these things are difficult to find accurate information on, so it really is valuable. Often times you will find conflicting information on the internet, which can be annoying and confusing to new owners. This guide will clear up any confusion.

HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.

Who this course is for:

  • How To Raise Hamsters

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