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    What Do I Feed A Newborn Hamster Who Has No Mother?

    My hamster had 5 babies and ate 4. I could only save one, what should I feed the surviving hamster?

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    Geez... Not a good day I'm guessing!
    If it's still a pinky (no fur, eyes closed), which I'm assuming it is, it's chances are very, very slim, and if it doesn't make it you should feel like you should have done something more, it's just a very fragile little thing that isn't intended to survive with out it's mother's constant care and attention.
    You can try going to the pet store and getting a can of puppy formula and feed it every 2-3 hours with a eye dropper, just a drop or two.. Just 'til his belly rounds out and is full... Once he stops lapping, take it away.  After each feeding you you'll have to stimulate each pup to urinate and defecate,  just like the mom would do... Gently rub its urethral and then anal areas with a warm, moist tissue or Q-tip... Until it goes (should do it right away)

    When you feed it with the eyedropper be very careful and to do it gently never forcing the fluid because it's real easy for a pup to inhale the fluid into it's lungs, and if that happens it just won't make it.

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      You could take it to the pet store and ask the experts. If you want the hamster to live you might have to let it stay with hamsters of its own kind  or you might have to spend some money

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      Well we have had up to 160 hamsters at once crazy they breed so fast usually the mother eats them if she is  sick  or they are going to dye anyway i know that hard us as our nature is so different is it her first litter that might be why remember not to let the male in with her because he will kill  the babies as for your little one the first 3 days days they need there moma so bad i don't know if we can do her job, she makes a nest and is pretty much there with them for the whole time

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