other WW pictures

[alberto60]

mother Lady and part of her first litter



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/IMG_4842.JPG



ten day old babies



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/IMG_4885.JPG



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/IMG_4888.JPG



just weaned babies



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/rosicchiano.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/piccolimangiano.jpg



a sapphire among...



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/sapphire1.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/quattro.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/quattro1.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/quattro2.jpg



sandbath for three...



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/bagnettointre.jpg



Lady at the last day of pregnancy



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/pancia.jpg



an example of home-made cage



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/box.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/box1.jpg



you can extend the cage this way...



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/astro1.jpg



the male, dad Oscar...



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/oscar_1.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic00/oscar_isba.jpg



Oscar was adopted, I don't know exactly his story, but his right ear is broken, and his left hand miss two fingers...

[SnuggleHam]

Wow Alberto



You really have some great clear pictures!! I love the set up you have for your hams as well. Do you have any picture of the WW in their white coats?

[alberto60]

thank you candacebell...:-)



..no I haven't any picture of WW in winter coat, because both male and female didn't turn white last winter (the female for a while, seemed to start becoming paler, but at the end she didn't...)



...you can see some sapphire among the babies, in all the litters till now (4)there was at least one (the maximum was 3 on 7)



...the babies seem to be subject to color coat changing in the first 3 weeks...a sapphire (apparently) turned to normal during the 3rd week, strange, isn't it?



bye bye

[babyboos]

Wow they are so clear :!: You have a great camera and an absolutely gorgeous bunch of Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters. Have you kept them for long?

[SnuggleHam]

Do you mind if I use the one with the WW's crammed in the house as an avatar image for people to use?

[babyboos]

That is a great picture!

These will hopefully help those who am are not sure which subspecies of Russian Dwarf they have - as you can all hopefuly see they are quite different in appearance (size, shape and colour) and I have also found demenour.

[alberto60]

Do you mind if I use the one with the WW's crammed in the house as an avatar image for people to use?





of course you can! I have just set up the picture...:-))



you can use them all as you want...



bye bye

[alberto60]

..........................bunch of Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters. Have you kept them for long?





I usually keep the litter for 5-6 weeks, when they have almost reached the size of their mother...it's sad after that time to give them all to the pet shop...even posting messages in various forum saying "dwarf babies WW russian hamster available" haven't produced any result to date...

[babyboos]

Well feel free to post a Classified Ad in the appropriate section here :oops:



In general though how long have you been keeping Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters?

[alberto60]

In general though how long have you been keeping Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters?



since last August...August 2004..



bye

These are my pictures of my 2 month olds. <3<3



http://photobucket.com/albums/v476/shes ... /Hamsters/ (http://photobucket.com/albums/v476/shes-not-there/Hamsters/)

[SnuggleHam]

Hello shesnotthere,



Welcome to the forum, I hope you will post a little introduction. :)



It looks as though you have a pretty fun set up for your little ones, Im sure thats a big cage for a dwarf.. looks it that for sure!

[babyboos]

I hope these pictures will help those confused by the differences between Normal Campbell's and Normal Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/babyboos/37cadea9.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/babyboos/6202e399.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/babyboos/2048013e.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v302/babyboos/3750b7f1.jpg

[Emma]

You can really see the different head shape in some of those. In the third one down it looks like the head is too big for the body, must be a funny angle!



I often see "bullet shape body" as a description for WWs, but haven't been able to translate that when actually looking at WWs.



At the show last weekend I was testing myself on identifiying WWs vs Campbells - working out what each ham was before looking at the classes it was entered in, which gave it away. I didn't do too badly - it's quite difficult though!

[babyboos]

Third picture is them in their plastic bin digging box - everything is covered in sand and they stuffed the potty house with their litter layer mixture and then guarded it like a little den - but it's their space so who am I to judge :?

Practice and looking from all angles, including upside down (them not me :lol: ), helped me in the beginning. Telling a hybrid is even harder, especially if just using photographs... I am much more of a hands-on person.

[alberto60]

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/aquilino.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/aquilino1.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/aquilino2.jpg





http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli.jpg





http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli1.jpg





http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli2.jpg





http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli3.jpg



http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli4.jpg

[babyboos]

Excellent camera work as ever Alberto - the family are growing fast :P

[Coco1]

Just love seeing other people's photos, especially when they're this good! I feel like I could almost touch them! :lol:

[babyboos]

They show very well the differences in colour/tone between Sapphire and Normal Winter White Russian Dwarf Hamsters.

[alberto60]

I had to put in another wheel for the 10 babies...

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/boxes.jpg

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/boxes1.jpg

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/boxes2.jpg

[babyboos]

Great pictures of the kind of environment we should be trying to introduce to our little ones :D

[Emma]

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/riconoscerli2.jpg





In this photo, I know the top one is normal and the right one sapphire, what about the one in the food bowl? Is that just a pale normal?

[alberto60]

http://utenti.lycos.it/vic000/bacino.jpg





from the last litter of 7...

[babyboos]

Hi Emma it is also Normal - just the way the light is hitting it making it look a little different.