Tortoiseshell Syrian Hamster Colors

The fifth self color is yellow black.

Tortoiseshell syrian hamster colors. This gene is sex link like it is in cats therefore tort hamsters are only ever female. As always if you have a patterned female do not breed her to a patterned male. When yellow is on cinnamon it turns the colour to honey. White black eyed black eyed cream x white bellied gene.

The color is described as dark chocolate brown in both the bha and the nhc standards. A tort and white has patches of the main colour yellow and white. This is the typical original syrian hamster as he lives in the wild. Yellow black is a combination of well yellow and black.

Golden brown fur with black cheek flashes gray undercoat ivory underside and gray ears. If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red eyes. Similar to yellow this is a gender linked color. White flesh eared cinnamon x dark eared white.

Let s say your female is solid no pattern black tortoiseshell aatoto. The tortoiseshell is a bi coloured hamster being a mixture of two colours using the yellow gene. The fur often starts out lighter and as the hamster ages the black tips become darker and more prominent. 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.

Often there is some brindling between the two colours. However over the years many different colours coat lengths patterns and coat types have now developed due to mutations. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. You will always get golden babies if you mate 2 hamsters that do not share any recessive genes or if you breed a golden hamster since the color acts as dominant.

Tort and tort white. Caution is needed when breeding from animals carrying or displaying the white bellied gene as this may result in having eyeless babies. The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. The syrian hamster is also most commonly know as the golden hamster as this is the original wild colour.

The coat of the golden tortoiseshell is a mixture of patches of golden brown with grey roots golden and patches of creamy yellow yellow. Black dove cinnamon chocolate rust and yellow are all great colours to breed to. They come in long haired short haired banded dominant spot tortoiseshell satin and every other variation available in syrian hamsters and they can be combined with any other color genes.