Anyone have any success experience to share in hand feeding few days old baby hamsters?

This morning I found out that a stray rat came inside my house, attacked all my hamsters (Robo & WW) in aquariums. 20 hamsters dead bitten by the rat. Now left the babies without their mothers. Left only 3 male adult hamsters survived from that attack. Poor thing...now I use syringe to hand feed them. Not sure they could survive or not.

omg....very sad to heard that...
poor thing...the stray rat so ganas ah? can broke into the cage???
btw, im newbie...hopefully other sifu's can help...

omg so kesian ... i nvr try to hand feed the babies. sorry to say that mostly babies can't survive w/o their mum as they need warmth as well. But u can try, hope miracle will occur. Why u nvr lock ur cage??






This post has been edited by hiroko_jiayi: Oct 13 2008, 12:51 PM

omg so kesian ... i nvr try to hand feed the babies. sorry to say that mostly babies can't survive w/o their mum as they need warmth as well. But u can try, hope miracle will occur. Why u nvr lock ur cage??

here to share some of my DIY cage. me and my dad spend 8 hours from morning to evening to do it










eating smoothies... one of the boy boy injured becuz kena attack by his mother.
his mother stay beside it and dunno how climb over to their house. now put mother in another cage edi.

Your DIY cage is nice. I tried before using this kind of cage, but not durable, the hamster may eventually bite a hole on the plastic and escape out.

Acquarium is better choice, but the only problem is the cover , I used the plastic fish cover, but easily just flip over, must use a brick to put on top now. The rat is huge I think as big as a kitten, because it came in from our roof top, my dogs are let loose in the area last night. This morning found my pet carrier which was puttting on top of the rack near the roof already dropped down too. Never expect a rat that is so daring to come in even I have 4 dogs let loose in the area.

Luckily the babies do drink milk from syringe, and I put a bulb inside to keep them warm. Hopefully they could survive through this ordeal.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Oct 13 2008, 01:21 PM

so sad to hear about the rat attack

the DIY cage looks nice. how did u do the 2nd floor? and how do the hamsters get up there

my dad use some hard pipe to make a tube to let them climb up ... 2nd floor we just fix the flooring on the middle of the box by using some wire lor ...

not durable ar?? nvm lar ... i dun think my hamster will so free and go and bite. haha. lets wait and see.

thats why we muz always close out cage properly. haih. its an accident. hope ur babies can survive. try to give them some tissue to make nest lor.

can they climb up a normal tube ah? coz i know those habitrail tubes hv ridges inside so that the ham ham can crawl up.

kaka .... my dad did tat using the electronic saw... but its hard for them to climb up still.
then they put coin
this method works!

Wah..your dad is very creative and a good handy man. Really a superbly nice cage.

your dad is awesome

my parents dont even care if my hamsters lives or dies

haha ... my dad always get annoyed when i over-care about my hamster... always threaten me wan to dump my hamster...
bus he still sayang me one. spend his off day to help me do my cage
ya ... my dad is the best ... kakaka

act we did refer from a china hamster web. those who know to read Chinese word can take a look...

alot of DIY stuff >> http://tieba.baidu.com/f?ct=318767104&tn=b...rd=%B2%D6%CA%F3

they re creative man. i just copy from them

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Added on October 13, 2008, 2:13 pmhttp://tieba.baidu.com/f?kz=477106574

this is quite creative. but wasteful if u specially go buy a mini cage and edit it.
somemore its more expensive than u buy a new cage lor. unless u got extra small cage

This post has been edited by hiroko_jiayi: Oct 13 2008, 02:13 PM

wah so cool. ..erm i guess later could have one thread on modding hamster cage... ...

how bout it?

Waahahahaha....My hamster gave birth today at 8am

congrates on the new babies

sorry to hear that...
found this article last time, hope it helps
http://www.geocities.com/calhamassoc/QandAHandFeed.html

Congrats... two days later then mine...

Nice DIY cage there, but be careful your hasmters will go and bite all the metal items as the rust will be poisonous to them.

I'll try that.
Anyway , how many of your guys play with your hamster till late night ?

Thanks for helping in providing that article. Just to share my previous experience, I gave ophaned pups a surrogate mother last time, and the surrogate mother refuse to nurse them and eaten them. So...this time I rather try hand feeding the babies.