How to determine the sex of a dzhungar hamster?

These lovely fluffy lumps reach a length of not more than ten centimeters. Keep them at home is very simple, and besides they are extremely clean and do not give off any sharp or unpleasant odors. Therefore, the Dzhungar hamsters, along with their Syrian brothers, became such popular traces of lovers of domestic animals. But, unlike a dog or a cat, to learn from this crumb "a hamster is a girl or a boy?", A beginner at first seems uneasy. Too small and fragile, these gentle fluffy creatures seem to them. This little instruction will help you, which is suitable even for a 3 or 4 week old pet.

How to distinguish the floor of a dzhungar hamster?

  1. Carefully put this baby in the palm of your hand, holding your upper body with your thumb. The lower part of the trunk, which we will carefully study, should remain free.
  2. First, wait a little, so that the animal calms down a bit and does not spin.
  3. Squeeze the tight body of this little rodent can not, try to act as carefully as possible, helping to treat the genitals of a hamster with a second free hand.
  4. The main sexual sign that determines that a jungarian hamster is a girl or a boy is the distance between the anus and the genitals of the animal.
  5. If you are dealing with an adult male, it will be about one and a half centimeters. In children this distance will be slightly less - 0.5-1 cm. In the center of the abdomen they have a characteristic gland very resembling the navel.
  6. In females, this gland is almost invisible, and the distance between the anus and the genitals is only a few millimeters. In addition, the females are distinguished by the presence of papillae arranged in two parallel rows from the bottom of the abdomen to the breast.
  7. In males, the abdomen in the region of the genitalia is covered with fur, while in females the skin is smooth and there is hardly any vegetation here.
  8. There is one more feature that will help in our business how to determine the gender of a dzhungar hamster. If a dzhungar hamster is already born for a month or more, then near the base of the tail you can find a tiny testicle after a very careful examination.

As you can see, the question of how to determine the gender of a dzhungar hamster is not complicated. Just do an inspection should be very careful not to cause your furry crumb of some unwanted injury. Now you are able to do this delicate procedure even without the additional help of an experienced specialist.