This isn't something I've come across before in my pups so I'm a little concerned.
I have 12 Syrian babies at the moment who turned 6 weeks on Sunday. Yesterday the girls started fighting so I had to break them up (little tinkers!) and whilst checking their bellies and bums for bite wounds I noticed that some of them had off teeth. Most are fine, but a few of them have oddly coloured teeth. A couple have two perfectly healthy upper incisors, nice and orange, whereas the bottom two are white. And a couple pups have 3 orange teeth and just one white.
Now I know the usual causes for pale teeth, but none of my hamsters have ever had anything but lovely teeth before now. They have ben reared on a balanced and nutritious diet and are otherwise perfectly healthy and robust; good weights, glossy coats, perky ears and noses and gleaming eyes. Both parents are healthy and their teeth are beautiful. So I'm at odds to the reason?
The only thing I feel worth mentioning is that they had to be taken from their mum early. It was at 20 days so not hugely detrimental to their rearing, the reason being that mum had lost too much weight for my liking, and despite my efforts to keep her weight up she was too skinny and her milk was failing. The pups were constantly harassing her for milk she didn't have and they were making her sore, so I took her away for some well earned rest and recovery. Although at that point they were most suckling for comfort, they were a bit small (assumedly because of mums dwindling milk) so I bulked them up with kitten milk as well as their small portions of porridge, veggies, chicken, mealies, suet pellets and puppy biscuits.
They all eat well and are otherwise stunning, healthy little hamsters.
Of course they won't be going to new homes until I've figured this out, but I'm quite concerned
Never had problems with pups before, and the parents both come from good lines.
Does anybody have any thoughts? x
Odd white teeth
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