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Old 03-07-2012, 05:37 PM  
vanilla-yazoo
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Default Re: What to teach 4-H kids about hamsters

i was just watching some 4-h rabbit ones,
how about
how to correctly do a health check (scruff correct, check teeth, claws, tummys ect)
monitering weights and heats in females(weighing scaled with a note book, and a callender for heats)
what would make a hamster loose points at a show (broken bands, missing toes or limps, ripped or damaged ears, dribbling from teeth too long, kinked tail, white belly ect)
cage size and wheel size recomendation, food recomendations
safe and unsafe food and plants
how to take a hamster to a show
how to prepare and enter a hamster into the show (a pen, grooming, what beddings who to contact and by when)
rules at the show (no touching or moving the showing pens, or hamsters, not disturbing the judge, no sick animals, no dogs around the small animal tables, what is allowed in a pen)
what awards can be won at a show (best in show, certificate of merit, best in class, best dwarf, novice, intermediate, small hamstery ect)
how do syrians fit into a show (patterned, satins, rex, aoc, agouti, sometimes cream is seporate, sometimes lh is seporate. if you have a satin lh golden what catagory is it under? ect)
the differences of a winter white and a campbells, (and maybe hybrids)
how to pick up a hamster
preparing a home and taking a hamster home
how to tame a hamster
theres lots ^^
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