I've had many people ask me...
Why my hamsters look so orange?
Today I will share my little secret！
Put the hammy in the oven for 5 seconds
Then you’ll get a shiny golden...
She was a baby from Paprika's 2nd litter
If my female hamster was doing well...
They could get pregnant twice
It's best for the line continuation
But wasn't Paprika a cream hamster?
These are not black hamsters
They are sable hamsters
Their genotype is a combination...
Of the umbrous gene and the cream gene
Their coat has cream/ivory roots
The umbrous gene darkens the tip of the fur
So the sable hamsters are creams...
But with a dark coat
They also have cream eyerings
Just like someone...
Umbrous can be combined with other colours
Umbrous Topokki is silver sable (satin)
Since Umbrous is a dominant gene...
Only one copy is required for umbrous babies
Paprika is a cream hamster...
If we want sable babies from her...
The dad should carry both umbrous and cream genes
When the dad is homozygous umbrous...
All babies will carry umbrous...
Therefore no cream babies...
Enough genetics
Let’s see her babies
She had a sable roan baby...
Looks familiar?
Pineapple's brother and nephew...
Guess who was the dad?
Austinson was a regular guest...
He dated Paprika earlier this year
He came over again recently...
To meet Topokki and Muffin
As Paprika and Austinson both carried cream...
Their babies must also carry cream
Apart from the sable babies...
There was also a mink baby
Mink is a combination of three colours...
Cinnamon is a recessive gene
It won't be shown when there is only one allele
We can find out from their pedigrees tho
Does she look familiar?
She is a red-eyed cream (REC)
REC = Cream + Cinnamon
RECs look like black-eyed cream hamsters...
But with peach grey ears
Wally is also a REC
He is also a rex hamster
There are more mutations of cream hamsters
I won't dive too deep here today
If you are interested in hamster genetics...
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