ziggy have spread its seed

[couchy]

yep its been non stop since 10 to 11, and they r still going at it. i will show a picture of ziggy soon as you have not seen him yet, he was all over the place first even mounted millys face love her i think theyv done it about 100 times by now and the smell their givin off is horrendas, so im quite happy now, just hope in 2 weeks time i have some lovely syriansiv allready got people who wants them plus my pet shop is waiting to know the due date too (if milly has babies) but this is going to be the only time i do this, mayb in a few years down the line but this is it this time

[couchy]

hopefullly the pups will b as lovely as their parents ziggy is golden SHBaRuRx++ im sure and milly is golden SHSaBa++ hehe iv done my research

[wofunny]

How exciting

All those letters are so confussing!

[couchy]

i know it took me a while to figure out lol

[internet_nobody]

Your genotypes are wrong...First of all, hamsters have two copies of each gene, not one. Looks like a smidge more research is needed

I'm guessing by "SH" you mean your hamster is shorthaired, there is no gene symbol for this (unless you're being really picky and adding what they don't carry), in which case it would be Lh). You also don't know if they carry longhaired (lh).
Ba is correct if you are describing a banded hamster, but without knowing the parents you can't know if they are Baba or BaBa. You would write this as Ba_.
Ru - ruby eyed. This is a gene that seems to have died out, so although you are technically correct writing Ru, as you haven't written all the other genes they don't carry, i'm guessing this was a mistake and you meant ru, which your hamster is hugely unlikely to be!
Rx - the rex coat is rxrx, it is a recessive gene. Again I apologies if you were describing your hamster as Rx_ because you don't know if it is carrying rex or not, but if so I thought you would have put this for both hamsters. All hamsters that aren't rex are Rx_, some will be carriers, Rxrx.
Sa - satin. Should be Sasa, can be sasa...but satin x satin shouldn't be bred.

Perhaps if you put up some pictures someone will be able to help you identify what they are, and with some info about the parents we can help you work out what they might carry.

[couchy]

yea ok thanks for the info ill try n get pix up of ziggy n milly so you can tell me what they are

[nooboo]

are these not the two we told you not to breed as they are from petshops, because you dont know what they are etc... and wouldnt listen when we tried to tell you about how many problems it could cause? wasnt milly also maybe a bit too old?

cant get them to mate

[couchy]

yea they are i did say

[lisab]

Originally Posted by nooboo

are these not the two we told you not to breed as they are from petshops, because you dont know what they are etc... and wouldnt listen when we tried to tell you about how many problems it could cause? wasnt milly also maybe a bit too old?

unfortunatly everyone has given her advice and she has decided to ignore it.


if you didnt know what they are you shouldnt have mated them,
also people have gave you lots of advice couchy
about how you shouldnt mate to pet shop hams together and how old she is.
you may have a straight pregnancy and everything will be fine. but also you have risk you may loose her and to me you dont seam to care and you HAVE to have hamster babys. i just think its very unresposibale. i feel sorry for you ham that you decided to put her through it

[SnickersTheFirst]

I'll have to agree with the others and say that it's very irresponsible of you to go ahead and breed them after being warned of all the risks to the hams. Why ask for advice when your going to ignore everyone? I feel sorry for mama ham having to go through this but I wish you luck all the same. Just please don't breed them again :/