Country of origin: Mongolia and Northern China
Life span: from 2-3 years
Size: 10 to 12 cm
Other features: Chinese hamster-like mouse and not so widespread at the breeder because of heavy cultivation.
Male specimens are higher than women with larger bags under the door. Chinese hamsters have to be sold in pairs always the same sex.
These hamsters are nocturnal species with strong climbing abilities were severely intractable or when caught are comfortable in the hand. The cage of this type also may be glass and large, because this kind of likes a lot of space.
Chinese hamsters are very clean animals and spend a lot of time cleaning up and decorating their hair. Female bears 14 to 22 days and has 1-8 young, and sometimes even 14. After litter keeps young for about two weeks. 10 days after birth the young see, and start getting the hair, and after 6 weeks become fully sexually mature and ready to mate. The life span of Chinese hamster is 2-3 years.
Chinese hamster is a large 8-10 cm. Cub weighs 2-3 grams and adult Chinese hamster 50-75 grams. Gestation lasts 18 to 21 days. On the front legs have 5 fingers (the thumb is almost not visible) and on the back
In the period when the only litter until the end of the second week after birth, the cage can not be cleaned and the only contact with him must happen only when the food is placed on the mother or changing water. During this vulnerable period is not the cubs and mother must not come into contact with a man, because it is almost certain reactions mothers killing their newborns.
However, male and female youth should be separated into two distinct cages but with about three weeks, since some pups mature earlier, especially males, so they can start a new brood with prematurely developed young female, or even his mother, and it is possible that the father receives new litter with her daughters. This is particularly risky because the female during this period and another cub alone, and not fully developed, either physically or mentally for their own offspring, and may die during pregnancy, or premature okotiti cubs, and then lay down extremely small and often happens to them female ate. As a young, Chinese hamsters are a bit nervous animals, but when they grow up, come to the fore their calm and cuddly character, but are very popular pets. He points out their playfulness and exhilaration when the evening springs from their spavališta and start running around the cage.
