Male hamsters living together

mattwebber1992 · 05-22-2009, 12:32 AM

Does anyone know how many male chinese can live together. I have heard they dont like being with each other but i thought that was females, and my girlfriends 2 live together happily. I was going to get 4 of them but i would like some advice because i dont want to buy 4 and have them all fight.

mattrendle · 07-29-2009, 12:25 PM

i have two male chinese dwarf hamsters living together , they live together fine, no fights so far, dont no about 4 but two are defently fine.what i would recomend though is a large cage, they really like to run around .
hope that can help

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Toria · 07-30-2009, 02:10 PM

I don't know anything really about Chinese Hamsters. But i bought a book about dwarf hamsters the other day and they advise that they don't live together, but i don't know if that is females, by the sounds of it they are more violent that the males...
Sorry i'm not that much help really...

internet_nobody · 07-30-2009, 02:23 PM

I wouldn't try 4, they're really not a colony animal. Pairs sometimes work, but larger groups are almost unheard of. If you want a colony I would recommend campbells.

Bunsey · 07-30-2009, 02:35 PM

if you really want chinese and really want more than one, then a pair of males is the way to go. However, be prepared that they might need splitting, probably about a 50% chance really. Females it would be hardly any chance of keeping a pair together!

hamster mum · 07-30-2009, 03:53 PM

I had two male chinese hamsters, they were the best of friends all their lives and when one eventually died of old age his brother followed him within a week.

mattwebber1992 · 07-31-2009, 03:57 PM

Thanks for the advice everyone, i went to get 2 but then there was 1 left all alone and im not one for leaving an animal without a companion so i got him as well.
I got them on the 4th of June and ive had no probs with fighting they all seem happy little boys.
I called them Chris, Brian and Stewie.

louisbs · 08-16-2010, 06:41 AM

I have 2 males.. Tom & Jerry.. Had them since babies back in april 2010. They live together fine

One thing is too get a large enough cage.. So if they do get fed up they can do there own thing away from each other.

SarahJ · 08-16-2010, 06:48 AM

U lot are lucky - My two Chinese boys lived to together for about 4 weeks until i had to split them up - i heard squeaking one day looked int heir cage to see what was going on and Monkey had pinned Stinky down and was biting his little thoart

im so glad iw as there to stop them or i dread to think what what have happened to Stinky!

Vectis Hamstery · 08-16-2010, 01:31 PM

I'm glaf your chinese males are living together happily. Please keep a close eye on them for fighting. I would separate them immediately if there's any sign of injury on either of them. I too have had no luck with pairs of males - a 5 week old boy needed eyelid surgery for wounds sustained from his brother.