Our Hamsters

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Picture Coming soon of the New addition Black hamster Ebony and the Robos!

Very cute!!! I had two as a child "Babe" & "Connie". Loved them, but they would never let me sleep at night!

,so cute. Pic no.5 my fav, would get my vote in POTM(Feb)

Keith.

Skins said:

,so cute. Pic no.5 my fav, would get my vote in POTM(Feb)

Keith.

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How do you go about entering Pet of the Month? Iv heard about it i must have a read through the forum Worth a shot! J

ust read the post i need this vote to be seconded before i can apply D

SensesFail said:

Skins said:

,so cute. Pic no.5 my fav, would get my vote in POTM(Feb)

Keith.

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How do you go about entering Pet of the Month? Iv heard about it i must have a read through the forum Worth a shot! J

ust read the post i need this vote to be seconded before i can apply D

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Sensesfail , can I ask, if your hamster has red eyes, does it mean its parents were albinos. Our 2 hamsters have really dark eyes but when you look at the eyes against bright light they glow red. Any ideas?

Carlovel1 said:

SensesFail said:

Skins said:

,so cute. Pic no.5 my fav, would get my vote in POTM(Feb)

Keith.

Click to expand...

How do you go about entering Pet of the Month? Iv heard about it i must have a read through the forum Worth a shot! J

ust read the post i need this vote to be seconded before i can apply D

Click to expand...

Sensesfail , can I ask, if your hamster has red eyes, does it mean its parents were albinos. Our 2 hamsters have really dark eyes but when you look at the eyes against bright light they glow red. Any ideas?

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Any hamster that has red eyes has 2 copies of the cinnamon gene. Hamsters can have other colour genes as well as cinnamon, so the hamster may not necessarily be a cinnamon colour but could still have red eyes.

There is no such thing as an albino syrian hamster. Hamsters often appear to be albino but this is usually just an interaction between two or more different colours (including cinnamon as this is where the red eyes come from). It is possible that both of the parents of your hamsters dont have red eyes but they 'carry' the cinnamon gene. If this is the case the babies each received a copy of the gene from each parent and the young would show the red eyes.

If your hamsters eyes are black but only shine red in bright light then this could be caused by a completely different gene. There is a gene seen in hamsters called the white bellied gene which can show in cream based colours as roan and most other colours as a white belly. This gene does no harm if the hamster only has one copy of the gene. If two hamsters that carry this gene are bred together 25% of the young will be eyeless whites.

The cause of your hamsters red eyes would depend largely on the colour of the hamster and possibly any patterned genes it has.

New Editions:


Pic 1: Blossom (Winter White Hamster)

Pic: Whisper (Winter White Hamster)

Pic 3: Rosie (Robrovski Hamster)

Pic 4: Willow (Robrovski Hamster)

Pic 5: Ebony (Syrian Hamster)

Ebony is so cute