Olivia, my little Russian :)

[genevieve]

Just a few photos :) She's about 6 months old now, by my calculations. I'm fairly certain she's a hybrid, bought her from P@H.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs933.snc4/74694_132245426835199_100001492281033_199626_65388 16_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs963.snc4/75674_122571541135921_100001492281033_148872_78570 90_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs563.ash2/148537_124508414275567_100001492281033_158888_8928 74_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs947.snc4/74007_119369841456091_100001492281033_131988_21548 73_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs792.snc4/67214_118776908182051_100001492281033_127671_77808 19_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs828.snc4/68822_118776678182074_100001492281033_127660_28035 0_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs077.ash2/37203_118776791515396_100001492281033_127665_59407 87_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/hs012.snc6/166218_133917100001365_100001492281033_208818_3939 916_n.jpg


:)

[fluffymunchkins]

awww shes a beauty :mrgreen:
she looks really friendly x

[MandyP]

Ahhhh how cute :) I like the one in the mirror :)

[genevieve]

She is super friendly :D She loves her cuddles!
and she doesn't really seem to think much of her reflection - clearly she doesn't know how cute she is haha!

[gellerbing]

aww such a little cutey

[RachK]

Aw she is a right little chubster, absolutely beautiful! Nice & round & cuddly. :)

[st4r_grl]

Aw Olivia is lovely. My dwarf Lera used to like to walk on my laptop until she pee'd on it and now she is not allowed :p cheeky thing

[Iluvhamsters]

She's lovely :)

[Hope]

Aww she is a cutie!! And looking like a right little chubster sitting in her bowl!

[anorak]

Adorable. Looks a lot like little Noodles and I got her form p@h, I wonder if she is a hybrid too?

[genevieve]

Oh gosh, I hope Olivia doesn't pee on my netbook! haha. I never even thought of that :p
Ha yeah, chubster :) My mum says she's fat! I disagree, she's just cuddly :D

And anorak, she probably is a hybrid if you bought her from there. They told me themselves, they pretty much never have pure breeds in. Though I live in the city, so it might be different if you're from a more rural area where less commercial breeding takes place?

[anorak]

Yeah, I am from a little town. I don't mind what Noodle is though, as long as she is happy and healthy :-)

[genevieve]

That's exactly how I feel about Olivia :)
You could probably find out if you really wanted to know at any point, though, by examining Noodles a little more closely - I realised Olivia was probably a hybrid when I noticed she was the colour of a Winter White, with the body of a Campbell.

[anorak]

I must admit that Noodles looks a lot like Olivia. And also seems to share the same love of Broccoli! I will have a look at the body shape of a campbell. Actually when I bought her they said she was campbells, but she has the fur and colouring of a winter white!

*edit* actually in her cage when I bought her when she was with her sisters there was a little white hammy with red eyes. I was lead to believe that winter whites did not have this colouring....?

[Hope]

If her sisters were red eyed she is a hybrid - red eyes have only come about through hybridistation, as have all the different colours, like argente.

[anorak]

Awww, my little Noodles is a hybrid! Bless!

[Hope]

She is in good company Noodles! Boz and Johnson are hybrid, as is Fluffymunchkins Treo. :-)

[anorak]

Yay! Do you know if the life expectency is slightly higher with the hybrids at all?

[Hope]

Im not sure Noodles tbh . . . hybrids typically have more health problems though, as a result of the 'bad' breeding, so they are probably more likey to have shorter lives, but if you have a healthy hybrid and a healthy pure, I'm not sure if one would be more likely live longer than the other?

[genevieve]

Since they have the Winter White colouring, do you think it's likely that they would whiten if their daylight hours were shortened?

[RachK]

I must admit that Noodles looks a lot like Olivia. And also seems to share the same love of Broccoli! I will have a look at the body shape of a campbell. Actually when I bought her they said she was campbells, but she has the fur and colouring of a winter white!

*edit* actually in her cage when I bought her when she was with her sisters there was a little white hammy with red eyes. I was lead to believe that winter whites did not have this colouring....?

It doesn't matter anyway she is still one cute little hamster. I only know ours are pure WW's as our local family run Pet Shop gets them from a breeder. He only sells WW's. Goodness, how many times have I said this on the forum! :mad:

[RachK]

Since they have the Winter White colouring, do you think it's likely that they would whiten if their daylight hours were shortened?

Genevieve, I think it just depends, some will lighten slightly others not. Even in pure WW's it varies. My Horace is almost all white now whilst Huxley only has patches of white. My son has three WW's Hattie is the same colouring (Agouti) as Huxley & she has loads of white, Gizmo didn't change this year & Mabel doesn't count as she is a Pearl anyway! lol

[anorak]

Noodles has really lightened up! Thank you Rach for the kind words about Noodles!

[DeweyTheHammy]

Dawww! I miss having a Russian Dwarf... I've got a winter white and she's alll white.

Hey look, we're laptop twinsies! hehe