Rare Syrian Hamster Colors

Beige produced by breeding a two hamsters with the rust and dark gray genes the beige color variety is often the smallest and less robust of the litter.

Rare syrian hamster colors. A true albino syrian hamster has yet to be discovered. Top coat soft pale grey with brownish tone carried approximately one third of the way down base colour slate grey belly fur ivory crescents white with base colour ticking lightly and evenly ticked with dark beige brown. The ruby eyed gene is extremely rare if not extinct. Beige hamsters sometimes have a kinked tail.

Normal golden cream cinnamon sable yellow yellow black. Syrian hamsters can come in many different colors including gray black yellow red or a mixture of several different colors. This one is actually a golden banded a solid golden wouldn t have the white spots on the back. Some have been standardized by clubs for show purposes.

But over the years a number of mutations appeared and now you can find a wide range of colours and coat types some being common and other rare. Some coat colours have several different eye and ear colour combinations however such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. The closest is a red eyed white sometimes called a flesh eared white. Short haired long haired rex coated satin coated.

Golden wild agouti color golden brown with an ivory belly dark brown cheekflashes black eyes and grey ears. The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. The ruby eyed gene can be combined with any colour to produce a ruby eyed variety of that colour. Syrian hamster colours and patterns thanks to advance breeding techniques and practices syrian hamsters now come in a variety of coat types patterns and colours.

The tortoiseshell is a patterned hamster produced by combining yellow with another colour. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. Golden banded same as above with white over the back and around the belly. The colour of a hamster s eyes and ears is usually determined by the coat colour.

Should your hamster not be of one of these colours it can still compete in non standard class or in pet class. The same hamster is pictured below. Banded dominant spot tortoiseshell bi colour calico tri colour roan. Sometimes hamsters can present.