holding baby hamsters

Question
ok it started I got a boy hamster and she went to the pet store to get a girl one soo we could breed but the pet lady convinced her dad to get a boy instead of a girl cause they are nicer so she got a boy then we had two boys so i went and got a girl and we bread her boy and my girl and had the babbies so im wondering hold old do the babies have to be until we can hold them?
please e-mail A.S.A.P thanks ,sarah

Answer
Don't touch them until they are at least 6 weeks old. The mother hamster doesn't like anything disturbing to go on around her, including changing things in the cage, touching her babies, etc. If you disturb her before her babies are around 6 weeks, she can resort to eating them.