The essential conditions for keeping hamsters include the following aspects:
Raising Environment:
Temperature: The suitable temperature for hamsters to survive is between 20 - 28℃. Avoid places with direct sunlight and direct drafts.
Noise: Avoid placing hamsters in noisy environments, such as near televisions or stereos, to prevent affecting their health.
Space: The activity space for hamsters should be large enough, including at least supplies such as water bottles, food bowls, nests, and exercise wheels.
Diet Management:
Main Food: The main food for hamsters should mainly consist of coarse grains, such as cereals, corn, and millet.
Side Dishes: Fresh vegetables and fruits can be fed in appropriate amounts, but fruits and vegetables with too much water, such as watermelons, are not suitable for feeding.
Snacks: Kernel foods with relatively high oil content, such as sesame seeds, melon seeds, and peanuts, can be chosen, but not too much to avoid adverse reactions.
Drinking Water: Provide clean drinking water. Boiled cold boiled water, mineral water, or purified water is the best.
Health Management:
Keeping Warm: In winter, provide measures to keep warm, such as using bedding materials like wood shavings and cotton, or putting the cage into a cardboard box.
Preventing Heatstroke: In summer, take measures to relieve heat and avoid direct sunlight. Items like marble can be used to help lower the temperature.
Hygiene: Clean the cage regularly to keep the environment clean and avoid the occurrence of diseases.
Reproduction Management:
Reasonable Reproduction: Select healthy breeding hamsters for mating, avoid inbreeding, arrange the mating time reasonably, and separate the young in a timely manner.
Other Precautions:
Separate Caging: Hamsters are solitary animals and cannot be raised together in the same cage to avoid fighting.
Toothing: Provide toothing supplies regularly to prevent hamsters from gnawing on the cage due to overly long teeth.
Bathing: Use bath sand for bathing to avoid catching a cold caused by directly bathing with water.
Through the preparation and management in the above aspects, the healthy growth of hamsters can be ensured.