Tortoiseshell Syrian Hamster Colors

The fur of a yellow black is yellow with black tips.

Tortoiseshell syrian hamster colors. The fur often starts out lighter and as the hamster ages the black tips become darker and more prominent. This gene is sex link like it is in cats therefore tort hamsters are only ever female. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour.

The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. As always if you have a patterned female do not breed her to a patterned male. A tortoise shell hamster has patches of yellow as well as their main colour. The syrian hamster is also most commonly know as the golden hamster as this is the original wild colour.

White flesh eared cinnamon x dark eared white. The coat of the golden tortoiseshell is a mixture of patches of golden brown with grey roots golden and patches of creamy yellow yellow. However over the years many different colours coat lengths patterns and coat types have now developed due to mutations. The tortoiseshell is a bi coloured hamster being a mixture of two colours using the yellow gene.

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. A tort and white has patches of the main colour yellow and white. When yellow is on cinnamon it turns the colour to honey. Let s say your female is solid no pattern black tortoiseshell aatoto.

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. Yellow black is a combination of well yellow and black. The color is described as dark chocolate brown in both the bha and the nhc standards. White black eyed black eyed cream x white bellied gene.

Black dove cinnamon chocolate rust and yellow are all great colours to breed to. Similar to yellow this is a gender linked color. If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red 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.

The fifth self color is yellow black. Tort and tort white. Often there is some brindling between the two colours.