There's a question on the CHS forum about breeding eyeless white syrians. Has anyone tried to breed these and are there any problems or concerns with breeding...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 2, 2000 5:23 pm
716
... I have had them, they are perfectly normal with an extreme good fur. Some of them are sterile, but I had one litter from a male to a normal golden. All...
madeleine raftö
hamster@...
Nov 3, 2000 12:32 pm
717
I know what guard hairs look like, but why do the syrians have them? Do they really "guard" and against what? And why don't dwarves have them? And it appears...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 4, 2000 3:01 am
718
... They have them against the weather. When they lay flat on the fur, the rain can't get trough them and the animal stay dry. They gard the flyffy underwool...
madeleine raftö
hamster@...
Nov 4, 2000 11:33 am
719
Hi everybody, It's been a while since my last post. Was away on army training and then a whole string of events made me too busy to cope. Anyway, everything...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 8, 2000 2:01 am
720
The South of England Hamster Club is listing quite a few syrian genes as semi-dominant. They seem to be the lethal genes plus yellow. I didn't think ...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 12:10 am
721
Hi, Some of you may have read this already, but there are some articles in the July 2000 issue of the BHA Journal. Follow this link and click on the "Journals"...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 9, 2000 7:03 am
722
The terms are used differently by people. Some argue that a gene that have an effect in single dose is dominant. Others use the term semi-dominant for those...
Kenneth Rene Worm
kwo@...
Nov 9, 2000 7:30 am
723
... we normally think of as "normal" dominant ones can have minor differences between the homo- and heterozygous forms, so strictly speaking they would also be...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 9, 2000 9:33 am
724
Even Ba can be said to be semi-dominant as BaBa tend to have wider bands than Baba. This need not be the case in individual animals, but within a large group...
Kenneth Rene Worm
kwo@...
Nov 9, 2000 10:34 am
725
... throughout their lives, whereas silvering usually gets heavier with age but never reaching the amount of white shown by pearls.<<< Also, pearl is only used...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 2:49 pm
726
... Platinum/BEW campbells". There appears to be alleles Di/di which can overcome lethal genes SiSi, although campbells with overided SiSi genes tend to be...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 3:12 pm
727
In a message dated 11/9/00 2:39:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... Hi Seb, That's right, assuming your Sgsg doesn't also carry dg. Since I don't breed grey, I...
TheRiverRd@...
Nov 9, 2000 3:58 pm
728
... picture.<<< I'll echo Jan on this. This is the problem I am facing. We think we used to have dark gray, but we can't find it now. We know we have light...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 4:36 pm
729
... up the picture.<<< ... avoid breeding the two dominant grays together. I don't know how to ever decide which I have. Linda<<< Hi Jan and Linda, Nice to...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:18 pm
730
... major confusion for me, but both of your mails (including the pic) have helped in clarifying the matter. Thanks. How did you breed such a nice specimen?...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 5:56 pm
731
... The homozygous plat I've imported was almost totally white, which is far more than any black with silvering I've seen. Even the black in your picture has...
Kenneth
sos.kenneth@...
Nov 9, 2000 6:13 pm
732
... It ... Since plat is supposedly lethal, I assume you mean heterozygous plat. We don't have very dark plats here. I've seen darker ones on European sites....
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 9, 2000 6:40 pm
733
... The breeder told me that it was homozygous plat and showed me also a heterozygous plat. Not having any personal experience with the colour I believed him,...
Kenneth Rene Worm
kwo@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:58 am
734
burrow77@...
Nov 10, 2000 6:21 pm
735
... one out of the 4 that ... be doing okay and ... lot and when it sits ... extra hard and squeekes ... me? Could anyone tell ... you. I noticed no one has...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 11, 2000 3:56 pm
736
A friend of mine had her campbells penalised yesterdy for being large. Now they're the same size as mine - which are about 12cm long - which is the BHA...
Yvonne
yket@...
Nov 12, 2000 10:16 pm
737
... I shall not deal with the temperament issue here, just the size. Is inbreeding causing them to be small? I think not. Actually 8-10 cm is the size...
Kenneth
sos.kenneth@...
Nov 12, 2000 10:52 pm
738
... and less with campbells dwarves - apparently due to their awful temperament... ... dwarfs, I'm really hoping that there isn't going to be as big a demise...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 13, 2000 3:29 am
739
... large. Now they're the same size as mine - which are about 12cm long - which is the BHA standard.<<< I've checked through both the BHA and NHC standards,...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 13, 2000 6:14 am
740
Well, my litter of the black Moscow cross has finally gotten old enough. There is one black, four normals, and one which has to be the combined color. I am not...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 15, 2000 7:29 am
741
I'm not sure if you remember, but about a month ago I was trying to figure out if I had light gray or silver gray. I got different opinions with different ...
Linda Price
lindaprice@...
Nov 17, 2000 5:27 pm
742
... Yes, but no simple way. It will take a lot of matings. Some of those babies from the mating gray x gray should be homozygous gray if they are silver gray....
Kenneth
sos.kenneth@...
Nov 19, 2000 2:43 pm
743
Hi, Are there any problems with the sex ratio of opal litters? A friend of mine was breeding opals and complained that other than the first litter which has...
Sebastian
jazz_1971@...
Nov 20, 2000 4:37 am
744
... of mine was breeding opals and complained that other than the first litter which has female opals. Subsequent litters are all males. Is there any...
