Things You'll Need
- Cage
- Protective gloves
Instructions
Find two healthy, unrelated dwarf hamsters of the same subspecies. Candidates for breeding should be friendly, have no health problems, should be between 3 and 6 months old, and have no history of breeding mishaps.
Introduce the dwarf hamsters in neutral territory. Wear your protective gloves in case you need to split up fighting hamsters.
Make sure your hamsters are getting along, and leave them alone to get to know each other. Remember that dwarf hamsters can be kept together for socialization, and the father hamster will help raise the pups.
Leave the pups alone once they are born (18 to 30 days after mating). You can look at them, but don't handle the pups or the parents. Do nothing more than provide fresh food and water (that means no cleaning the cage) for the first 14 days.
Separate the pups from the parents when they are about 21 days old. Remember that females and males should be in different cages to avoid inbreeding.