Males living together?

[Vectis Hamstery]

As others have said, male Chinese live together more often than female. My male babies tend to live together longer than the females, although I have had one male need surgery at 5 weeks old for injuries received from his brother. A pair of brothers that I bred is still living together at 10 months old, but they are the laziest creatures I've ever come across! I have found that Louis's experience is more typical with pairs arguing when they reach maturity, unless kept in a small enough cage that they are unable to form individual territories.

If you don't have space for 2 cages, I would strongly advise only getting one. Chinese hamsters are perfectly happy kept on their own.

[squirrel]

I have two boys who are probably about ten months old and I've just had to split them. They got along okay at first, then later started to sleep apart more often and have little scuffles, and they've just had an actual blood-drawing disagreement that was thankfully not too nasty so they're now in separate batchelor pads. I bet they'll regret it when they don't have a buddy to cuddle up with as another hamster-hot-water-bottle this winter!

[louisbs]

My two are fine on there own and live in luxury
130l bin for tom.. 3 tier leon for jerry lol
They're getting to a grand age too and dont look like they are slowing down anytime soon

[lisab]

I hope they are ok, they can really do damadge to each other

[racinghamster]

Yes they can. Which is why they are best seperated while young to prevent fights when their hormonal and territorial instincts kick in. My Prinny lived with another female before she came to live with me and she had a cut on the back of her neck due to having been split from her cagemate. I thought it was something she had done while in my care within the first week and then I suddenly realised it was a wound from the other chinese. It healed within a week just by having a good diet and love from her new mum.

It`s a personal decision whether to keep two chinese together until the fateful day that they may decide they hate one another, but it`s a risk. Especially if this occurs while the owner is out and can`t seperate them quickly enough and fighting escalates and one or both have severe injuries. It`s best avoided in the first place.