Things You'll Need
- Transparent plastic tank connector tube, the kind with 1 closed end
- Spare hamster tank, prepared for the pups
Instructions
Gently pick up a hamster pup and slide it into the open end of the connector tube. Alternately, simply set the tub into the tank and wait for a pup to crawl into it.
Place your palm partially over the open end of the tube. Don't cut off the air supply. Carefully lift the tube up so that you can tip your head and see the underside of the pup.
Examine the pup and identify two dots on the underbelly of the baby hamster. The dot closest to the bottom is the anus. On a male pup, the second dot will be 1/8 inch to 1/4 inch above this first dot. On a female pup, the second dot will be very close to (often nearly on top of) the first dot.
Separate your male pups into one tank and your female pups into another.