I feel like a monster.

[nooboo]

she looks a lot like this

with aspects of this





got links from here http://www.critterhut.com/care_sheets/h ... colors.htm



she does not stay still especially at the moment took some pictures but they are rather bad



si is more of a poser so will wait for him to wake up!

[nooboo]

well the darker baby, has no band at all, and seems to be getting tiny ginger patches



problem is i dont want to get excited



i really want a dark and ginger tort.. but i doubt it is

[nooboo]

still have one baby eyes open one baby eyes closed so annoying

had a incident with the baby porrige too... its in a high sided bowl in the round cage thats connected to the kidney. little darky got into the tube into the round and into the porrige.. why couldnt darky have gone for the sand!! was totally cgovered on his head back legs, didnt seem to know how to get out again eithr, i have wiped down with kitchen towelbut darky is still a bit sthicky, worried to put mum back in now as she does love her porrige

[Pendragon]

Originally Posted by nooboo

well the darker baby, has no band at all, and seems to be getting tiny ginger patches

problem is i dont want to get excited

i really want a dark and ginger tort.. but i doubt it is

No... don't get excited... not yet anyway!!



I'm fairly positive Si is a Silver Grey, as I breed them myself. He doesn't look quite right for a Light Grey although that's still possible, but he says SG to me! Light Greys don't have such a prominent head patch and also have a very distinct warm creamy/pale gold colour on the light parts of the face. Pophammy is quite right - if he is SG then he is a heterozygote one or you wouldn't get Goldens in the litter. Compare him to Sterling, here, who is definitely a Silver Grey:





He doesn't have a brownish tinge to his coat in real life - he's bright clean silver and grey all over, and if you saw him head-on, you'd see his head patch is quite dark.



The little baby in my avatar is also a Silver Grey... one of Sterling's daughters.



I'd say Ponder is definitely Golden but she could be an Umbrous Golden (which makes them darker). Does she have any light creamy patches anywhere on her back, in a sort of random splotchy way? If so then she may be a Golden Tort.



Unfortunately you won't get any baby Torts unless she is a Tort herself! It's a dominant gene and can't be carried.



IF - big if!!!!! she is a Tort, then any female babies in the litter might be Torts (remember you cannot get male Torts!).



Where are the gingery bits on the baby one? When Goldens are tiny, the hip spots (one on each side) look gingery.



You won't believe how fast they will grow from now on!!

[nooboo]

both have opened there eyes! and i took a moment out for a brief photo opotunity and a cage clean, ponder does not seem to care at all which i guess is a good thing.



























they are happily eating anything which seems to include human, but its more like being sucked to death, so sweet

[nooboo]

oh and yer i know the chance of tort is slim to none, and i thought tort in hamsters was like in cats, that you could get a tort male.. but its an extremely rare thing, and if you do have one its infertile anyway.



one day i will get a tort, i know i will have to buy it, one day i will find someone who can sell me one!!