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Old 08-28-2011, 11:54 PM   #1
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Question Question about colours...

Ok so a while ago I asked about robo colours and I'm intrigued to know about cambell and WW colours. This mainly stems from previous experience. About 2/3 years ago now I brought two 'winter white' hamsters from a pet shop. They didn't look a lot like each other and one was what you would call the normal colour (grey-ish but can't remember the correct term...) and the other was an orange/ginger colour. At the time I didn't really know a lot about them, I had read up about them but now after being a member here I realise I didn't know anything! Both of them died within 2 weeks of me getting them for no reason and that, I suppose, is what put me off dwarves for quite a while.

Anyway, would the ginger one have been an actual WW as now I believe that it may have been a hybrid?

Do WW/Cambells come in a large range of colours like Syrians do as I know robos come in different patterns but their colouring is generally the same?
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:06 AM   #2
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Default Re: Question about colours...

WWs only have 4 colours; Pearl, Normal, Sapphire and Sapphire Pearl.
Winter White Colours

Campbells come in slightly more colours:
Campbell Colours

The 'ginger' one you mention may well have been an Argente Campbells but it was most likely a hybrid. They were probably both hybrids tbh.
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:15 AM   #3
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I thought that... I think the reason they passed so quickly may have been because they were hybrids. I always blamed myself but after reading post on here I maybe think it was bad breeding.

After I saw pictures of people's WWs it made me realise that the WW I was sold were probably hybrids.

I've always been interested in the different colours of dwarves. Thanks for the links snickers
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:19 AM   #4
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It's shame you lost them so early but I doubt there was anything you could have done. xx

No problem. I LOVE the black and blue Campbells.
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Old 08-29-2011, 03:15 AM   #5
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I love the Dove colour!! And the black and blue colour. I was in P@H the other day and there was a black dwarf in the adoption centre... Was so tempted!!
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Snickers has already give you great links
The only colour not mentioned in WW's is marbled, although its possibly a pattern actually. Its not yet widely established.
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