Breeds of hamsters with photos

Below we describe the most common breeds of hamsters with photos and features:

Common, Golden, or Syrian Hamster
Golden hamster is the most common of this type of rodent race. It is also that reaches larger hovering around 15 cm in length. This type of hamster tend to be more sociable and quiet. Even though its name indicates a golden brown color, we can find many different colors in this breed: grey, white, Browns, Albino,...

Russian Hamster
Russian hamster is small, measuring about 10 cm., this race has a dorsal black line on the back, it has rounded ears and a short 1 cm tail. Their fur is very dense, which makes them seem larger than they really are. His character is sociable, although it is something more territorial than other hamster with the members of their species.

Campbell Hamster
The Campbell are a race of dwarf hamster that often haunt the 10 cm. One of their greatest differences is that they have a very populated fur and hair-covered feet. They also are distinguished by having more raised ears, prominent eyes and a snout a puco more prominent than other breeds of hamsters. They also tend to be less sociable than other breeds.

Chinese hamster
This is one of the hamster more small, since it hardly exceeds 8 cm. For its size and for its tail, gets to look like a u common mouse. The color of these hamsters are usually grey or brown in different shades.

Hamster Roborowski
It measures one 5 to 7 cm. What is the breed of hamsters more small we can find. These hamster are nervous, hyperactive and mischievous and we provide them with a large cage, running tunnels and casters so they can be all day around. This type of hamsters likes to live with other members of their species, so we will not have problems to put several in a same cage, always and when go for no more than one male. Normally Brown clear, although there is a variety with white face.

Hamster breeding: Guide on how to raise a hamster

If we plan on raising hamsters, it is important to follow some recommendations so that everything goes correctly.

The first recommendation is to wait for the female to have about 3 months to start to breed for the first time. I could do it without any problems in just 2 months of life, but it is good to wait as the female will be more mature to produce milk and support the care of the puppies.

Thus the offspring are more likely to move forward smoothly and largely avoid the common problem in the young hamster of cannibalism with the offspring.


Another very important aspect for the hamster breeding is the presentation between the male and the female.

You should never put the male in the cage of the female, since this thing vera as a threat to your home and will fight. It is the female who should get into the cage of the male.

It is still likely that female violently reject the male if not ready. We can prevent this taking together cages a few days and even hours exchange the hamster's cage so they become accustomed to the smell of the couple.

Once you have "known" we will introduce the female in the cage of the male to see how she reacts. If all goes well and the female accepts it without fights, we will leave the two together in the cage a few days (a week) and then we would return them to separate, leading again to the single female to his cage.

It is the moment to give the female a place to make the nest and provide straw or hay to winterize it.

The gestation lasted just 16 days and will have an average of 6-8 pups (may vary enough). During this period we have to let the hamster in a place where no one bother it and reduce the cleaning of the cage to the indispensable minimum. Even for 7 or 8 days of life of the young, we must let it quiet and not to touch the nest to nothing to see the hatchlings.

During this period it is important to give the hamster good quality food high in protein and vegetables.

8 Days calves (even with closed eyes) will begin to leave the nest to explore the cage, but this should start fiddling with them.

Very soon they started eating solid food we give to the mother, so we will have to increase the amount of food that we provide.

To the 3 weeks of life should be weaned and separated from the mother. Up to 5 weeks they can be together in the same cage, but thereafter we will have to separate them by gender so that they do not happen prematurely.