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Phoenix · 07-16-2013, 01:39 PM

Did a quick run through of the numbers for syrians and worked out the average lifespan of males and females (as a group, unbred and bred). If it was not mentioned whether or not they were bred, I assumed unbred so there was a lot less data for the bred females.

On average it seems males live a few months longer than females but there’s not a lot in it. Interestingly, the hamsters with the maximum lifespans (5-7) were females. Bred females would also appear to live longer than unbred but that’s probably due to less data. I also calculated the percentage of deaths due to pyometra, again I think the bred females is high due to the small amount of data.

Average Male Lifespan – 24.5 months
Average Female Lifespan (regardless of breeding) – 22.7 (11% Pyometra)
Average Unbred Female Lifespan – 22.6 months (10% Pyometra)
Average Bred Female Lifespan – 23.3 months (22% Pyometra)

My statistics seem to differ slightly to Bekki2308’s. This could be due to additional data since her analysis, differences in which data was excluded and possibly some rounding of the numbers.

07-16-2013, 01:39 PM
Phoenix Hamster Pup Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Orkney, Scotland Posts: 138	Re: How long do they live? Did a quick run through of the numbers for syrians and worked out the average lifespan of males and females (as a group, unbred and bred). If it was not mentioned whether or not they were bred, I assumed unbred so there was a lot less data for the bred females. On average it seems males live a few months longer than females but there’s not a lot in it. Interestingly, the hamsters with the maximum lifespans (5-7) were females. Bred females would also appear to live longer than unbred but that’s probably due to less data. I also calculated the percentage of deaths due to pyometra, again I think the bred females is high due to the small amount of data. Average Male Lifespan – 24.5 months Average Female Lifespan (regardless of breeding) – 22.7 (11% Pyometra) Average Unbred Female Lifespan – 22.6 months (10% Pyometra) Average Bred Female Lifespan – 23.3 months (22% Pyometra) My statistics seem to differ slightly to Bekki2308’s. This could be due to additional data since her analysis, differences in which data was excluded and possibly some rounding of the numbers.