Winter White breeders in Leicester ?

**ianpallen** · 07-23-2014, 07:57 AM

Hi, Are there any winter white breeders in Leicester. I would like to buy a WW male but cant find any local. I dont want to buy from a shop as I bought my Screech from a shop and if the local shops use the same breeder, and I decide to breed Screech, I dont want one that is related. I asked on another hamster site but have never got a reply. I get more replies on this site to posts / threads than on the other site, so I dont go on it.

Thanks in advance. Ian

dave123791 · 07-23-2014, 08:04 AM

In my opinion you should not breed a pet shop hamster. His genetics are probably not very good. I wouldn't recommend doing it.

Colby and the Dwarfs · 07-23-2014, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by dave123791

In my opinion you should not breed a pet shop hamster. His genetics are probably not very good. I wouldn't recommend doing it.

I sent the OP a PM about it. Screech is probably a hybrid.

**ianpallen** · 07-23-2014, 08:13 AM

Thanks. I got a pm from Colby and I didnt know I would not be able to breed Screech. I might just look for a pair of unrelated pure breeds to mate just the once. I have bred birds but never hamsters. I would like the experience but would not do it for profit.

dave123791 · 07-23-2014, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by ianpallen

Thanks. I got a pm from Colby and I didnt know I would not be able to breed Screech. I might just look for a pair of unrelated pure breeds to mate just the once. I have bred birds but never hamsters. I would like the experience but would not do it for profit.

What birds?

Are you gonna keep the babies?

By the way thanks Colby

**ianpallen** · 07-23-2014, 08:33 AM

A few years ago, I bred zebra Finches and last year, I sold my last canary after breeding Fife canaries. The last canary I sold was special as I hand reared it from it being a week old and it was thrown out of the nest twice by its parents. It was heart breaking letting him go after he had been through a lot, but at the time, I did not have the time for birds as I was moving house, being in hospital and other things happening all at once. If I bred a pair of hamsters, (which would not be for a long time yet) I would either sell them very cheap or give them away to friends who would like to have a pet. I would not take them to RSPCA or pet shop. My son was thinking of having one but doesnt know when. I may never get any more and just have Screech.

**DrKMcK** · 07-24-2014, 04:31 PM

LOL. Colby has an Axolotl.

Years ago my Aunt & Uncle had a Myna bird who used to ride on their Dalmatian's head. It used to talk too. My Uncle used to say, "You dirty...you dirty..." to tease us and the bird would say it too

I had a Biology Professor who had, among a whole range af animals in the lab, several big talking birds. He had one Cockatoo that used to insult him as he lectured. Cracked me up fairly often.

I love birds.

Colby and the Dwarfs · 07-24-2014, 06:50 PM

I do

. And I love them! They aren't boring! Sure they're a little....slow, and....such but I love them anyway. Haha.

**ianpallen** · 07-25-2014, 01:31 AM

The axy I had hardly moved. She just stayed in the corner most of the time. She never swam to the top. She loved garden worms and was not keen on pellet feed. My sister had on back in the 70's

**ianpallen** · 07-25-2014, 01:43 AM

DrK, I love birds, but now, it is the wild birds instead of caged birds. I hand reared a canary and he went through a lot from a week old. He is still doing well and is very small for his age. He was very hand tame, then I had to stop hand feeding him to make him fend for himself. I had a lot of help and guidance from people on a forum. Through the 'diary' i put of him, I won 'diary of the year' as voted by the forum members. I named him Oliver as he was always asking for more feed when he was a chick.
This is him.
This is when I first started to feed him

This is him a few weeks later