All Syrian Hamster Colors
But over the years a number of mutations appeared and now you can find a wide range of colours and coat types some being common and other rare.
All syrian hamster colors. Syrian hamster colors and coats. Some of them may be solid colored but others can have all sorts of interesting markings. Golden is the original colouration of syrian hamsters. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour.
Banded dominant spot tortoiseshell bi colour calico tri colour roan. Normal golden cream cinnamon sable yellow yellow black. One popular color is brown syrian hamsters. Originally classified as dark golden and light golden this description and standard has now fallen out of favour as a light golden is simply a golden that lacks defined black ticking.
Brown ranges over a broad color spectrum. Caution is needed when breeding from animals carrying or displaying the white bellied gene as this may result in having eyeless babies. Do male and female syrian hamsters differ in color. Although only a female hamster can have a tortoiseshell coat the sex of a syrian hamster does not generally dictate its color.
A self hamster however is the same color all over and these are popular in black chocolate cream mink and sable. Short haired long haired rex coated satin coated. Syrian hamster colors these hamsters may sometimes be called golden hamsters but they actually come in a huge variety of colors and patterns. Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes.
White black eyed black eyed cream x white bellied gene. White flesh eared cinnamon x dark eared white.