Our four surviving hamsters are nearly 4 weeks old, which means it's time to determine their gender. Not surprisingly, that's not too easy to figure out when you don't know what you're doing.
So I've studied up on it (thank you YouTube) and I'm fairly certain we have two males and two females. I'll double check this in the next few days and move the males to the "boys dorm" down in our classroom, as hamsters become sexually active at six weeks old, go into heat every three or four days. With three females, we're probably talking 100-150 hamster babies per year with a male in the cage.
We don't need any of that.
That said, dwarf hamsters don't live all that long (a year or two, I'm told). So we might deliberately have another litter in six months, if it doesn't happen accidentally. So if anybody out there has a male dwarf hamster "stud" we could borrow for a few days this winter, let us know.
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