I have two white dwarf hamsters. I think one is a girl and the other one is definitely a boy. The girl is pregnant. What are the chances of her having a brown baby? Is there even a chance?
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Agouti("wild" brown colour) is dominant in dwarf hamsters. If their dad was agouti, both siblings will carry agouti. This means you should have some agouti in the litter.
I say "should" because genetics will give you a percent chance of specific colours (just like it is 50/50 chance that each baby will be male/female - though many litters have far more of one gender than the other), but mother nature likes to stack the dice sometimes. I have had litters where the babies should have been mostly the colour I wanted and had only one baby that colour.
Key is to make sure they are well fed and have water at all times. You can leave the male with the female, but if you do you will quite possibly have a litter again in a matter of weeks. The male will not hurt the babies, though.
I dont really know but anythings posible, but anyway when she has the babys send me some picsof them please!! good luck
Well, it's all in the genetics. More than likely your female is going to have white babies. The recessive gene can activate though and you could possibly have brown ones. Probably depending on the amount of brown either hamster has, it could affect the babies. You never know though, as White Dwarf Hamsters are named that for a reason.
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