Syrian Hamster Coat Colours

In 1964 scientists drew a comparison between a color mutation characterized as brown cinnamon or amber to a newly discovered rust coat color as they called it.

Syrian hamster coat colours. Some coat colors have several different eye and ear color combinations such as the cream variety which can have black red or ruby eyes. Normal golden cream cinnamon sable yellow yellow black black grey white blonde honey smoke pearl. Banded dominant spot tortoiseshell bi colour calico tri colour roan. If you have a syrian hamster that is blonde cinnamon lilac honey or fawn then these often have red eyes.

Should your hamster not be of one of these colours it can still compete in non standard class or in pet class. There have been reported color coat mutations resulting in a syrian orange hamster. Golden short haired nhc. 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. Click on any coat type name to view a fuller description and more pictures. Thanks to advance breeding techniques and practices syrian hamsters now come in a variety of coat types patterns and colours. Colours and coat types of the syrian hamster the syrian hamster is also most commonly know as the golden hamster as this is the original wild colour.

The color of a syrian hamster s eyes and ears are usually determined by the color of their coat. The syrian hamster is commonly called golden hamster referring to the wild colour. There are five different coat types in the syrian hamster. Female long haired hamsters have a longer coat.

However over the years many different colours coat lengths patterns and coat types have now developed due to mutations.