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I have a pair of Dwarf Hamsters that just had babies. The male I had before, he was the father of three beutiful normals. The old female died from natural causes. The new female I got last month and paired her up with my male. They had four babies, to my surprise one is an albino! I guess that makes my male and female het for albino. I could not believe my eyes, the albino stood out the day they were born. Unlike the others no melanin on the eyes or back, looked like an albino mouse pink. I am siked, can't wait until they are fuzzies. I've only seen one albino Dwarf Hamster before, are they rare?

>>I have a pair of Dwarf Hamsters that just had babies. The male I had before, he was the father of three beutiful normals. The old female died from natural causes. The new female I got last month and paired her up with my male. They had four babies, to my surprise one is an albino! I guess that makes my male and female het for albino. I could not believe my eyes, the albino stood out the day they were born. Unlike the others no melanin on the eyes or back, looked like an albino mouse pink. I am siked, can't wait until they are fuzzies. I've only seen one albino Dwarf Hamster before, are they rare?

I have RDHams and I started with a white with a black line down the back and a regular agouti. They are cool in that they have like a merle sort of gene and I have had whites with smudges of grey or brown in them. I have had this one group all year and a few litters ago I got a dark charcoal one.....something I hadn't seen at all. She hasn't bred herself yet, so I am interested in seeing what I get. So far all I get is whites with black line, whites, tan and agouti...but they do tend to have various intensities of their colors which is cool.
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Sonya

No they are not rare. You may, however, have a red eyed white, not an albino. If one of your parent hamsters is "frosted" in apperance (platinum gene) all you need is a dilution gene and you'll get a hamster that looks like an albino but is not. I have both albinos and red eyed whites...they look the same.

The female does look different, she has shorter smoother hair and a more golden color and more white on the belly. Is that considered platinum? She is definately different than the male. I checked on the babies today and the normals are getting real black colors. The one that has no malanin is getting a faded line down the back but still has no melanin anywhere else.