Chinese coming back to Northern region

souffle · 12-11-2005, 03:29 PM

I was pleased to see that Chinese were making a comeback at the Northern Show today. We had a reasonable sized class with a couple of babies for sale which I nearly came home with myself!

PJ · 12-11-2005, 04:52 PM

I got 2

I'm so bad lol they are in the hiding stage atm every time I walk in the room they legg it .. hope they calm down they are two sweet little girls... will post pictures tomorrow or tuesday

souffle · 12-12-2005, 04:45 AM

They were so nice but we have to limit numbers and want more syrians so resisted. Maybe next year

nooboo · 12-12-2005, 04:52 AM

unluckily from the pictures i have seen their tails are just too long and freek me out. always the way

maybe if there was a bad example of one with a very short tail i could cope :P

Skwee · 12-12-2005, 06:47 AM

their tails arent *that* long!!! not like mice or rats! its only like 1 maybe 1 1/2 cms long, about the same as Skwee( syrians) tail when he has his balls

sucked in

Emma · 12-12-2005, 09:01 AM

There were quite a few at the Hamsoc show as well. I like them

but yeah they're way down on the list of animals I'd like to keep......roll on graduation I'm going to have a rodent zoo!!

Skwee · 12-12-2005, 11:31 AM

Just what i was thinking!!! oh wait, im part of one.. teehee. well if you ever want something unusual rodent wise.. i could probably get it if we dont have it already

I like chinese, they are funny and long. I have also found that the males in particular tame up incredibly well and end up far tame than even a syrian!!.. or ours always did anyway

until my college killed of our boy

Our male really pined once his two girlies passed on (he was still pretty young) and we couldnt locate a breeder of chinese and hated the idea of buying the sickly looking mites at P@H so we were thinking about what to do when the daft ham escaped over night and after hours of searching we found him curled up in the nest between his next door neighbours.....

A pair of gerbils!! he got on well with the gerbils and some how kept squishing out his cage (lordi knows how!! 1cm wire mesh and it was nailed down, no way to lift the lid!) to join the gerbils, even when we put the gerbs cage down a shelf and alond a few cages!!! we caught him squishing himself into the gerbs cage once!! so there he lived for a few months!

PJ · 12-12-2005, 12:29 PM

omg emma!! I just realised who you are! lol I was at the hamsoc too and so was lee my other half ... he was pen stewarding with you! ahhaahh now I know! lol. well I have chinese now if any of you ever want any but I wont be breeding any till after the big harrogate show in january... everything is now unpaired to get into condition for that lol.

**babyboos** · 12-12-2005, 02:02 PM

I can't believe you two didn't meet each other properly and after I told you too that Emma was going to be there and had volunteered to help out pen stewarding

Now I am all jealous

I used to have Chinese colonies but their space was slowly taken up with Roborovski rescues and now I have none - I said I wouldn't have any Campbells for a while after clearing the decks this year - but hey that lasted less than 6 months

Emma · 12-12-2005, 04:00 PM

Lol!!!! Ah well we were chatting even if we didn't know who each other was!!