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Old 02-25-2005, 03:41 PM   #1
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What colour Syrians do you have, or have you had? Which colours do you prefer?



My favourite hams (on the prettiness scale) have all been banded - Rosie a black-eyed cream banded, Mitzi a cinnamon banded, and the most recent the short-lived Bella, who was a kinda chocolate/lilac banded. She was incredibly pretty. I'm not sure exactly as she was a pet shop ham. There's been quite a few cinnamon bandeds, I tend to think of that as "normal" now!



I really love the cinnamon and honey colours, also the really good creams that are really peachy/yellowy. I like the sound of yellow too but all the pictures I've seen have been a quite dirty yellow colour, not as attractive as I think "yellow" should be. I also think lilac is gorgeous.



I'm looking forward to going to the Highworth show next weekend to hopefully see good examples of lots of different varieties.
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Old 02-25-2005, 03:51 PM   #2
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These are probably the prettiest hams that I have had.. But then.. They are the only two since my first one as a child (RIP Butters and Hammy)



Butters I think was a sable.. She had the cutest face a big ears and bright eyes, you can see her in my Logo on the Hamster Central website







And then Hammy, he was a male but looked like a princess, I don’t know if the image quality stands up but he was literally more blonde then a yellow inky color :P Long haired, he was my first longed haired.. Died 6 days after he came home with me







I have seen some truly pretty hamsters while skimming over web sites and peoples personal photos though. So many varieties to choose from..



I wonder what my next one will look like..



Aww Now Im sad.. my hammies died
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Old 02-25-2005, 03:57 PM   #3
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I think Hammy was a black-eyed cream banded. Very pretty - longhaired + cream does look quite feminine doesn't it!



I still get sad missing Mitz and I lost her at the beginning of December. Special hams always keep a place in your heart.
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Old 02-25-2005, 03:59 PM   #4
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That they do... thats why Butters is in my logo, I would have hammy also but I was unable to get good quality images in the short six days I had him
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Old 02-25-2005, 04:02 PM   #5
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These are some colours I'm liking at the moment... (pics from the NHC site)



Honey





Lilac





Black

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Old 02-25-2005, 04:15 PM   #6
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I really like the Lilac although it seems to have a more silver or metallic sheen to its fur.. aren’t Lilacs purple :P



You need to find a fancy breeder for these types I’m sure... Yikes.. The Black one looks like he’s about to eat a poison mushroom.. who put that there!!!

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Old 02-25-2005, 04:27 PM   #7
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Lol. "Lilacs" in animal colour terms tends to be kinda almost-lilacy silver. It would be so cool though if an actual purple gene showed up though!



I've never seen a blue mink, sounds very interesting though. I wonder if itd be a similar colour to blue BSH cats - they really are a bluey grey. I don't know how common they are (blue mink hamsters) though, the colour is a combination of about 5 recessive genes so must be incredibly difficult to breed.
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Old 02-25-2005, 06:23 PM   #8
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These are my current hamsters. I will share pictures of the hamsters I have had in the past. I've only ever had Syrian Hamsters as pets incidently.



Hazel and Clara.



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Cute hams Rey,



you seem to be a fan of the longhaired versions huh :P My first one like that was Hammy, but he died
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I currently have the following:



George, Black eyed cream

Charlie - Banded cream

Missy - Honey banded

Rosie - Rust



My favourite colour is a banded golden, preferably long haired. I've also had black eyed white, banded sables and sables.
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