Please Help about hamster

Question

my cousins hamsters had babies one of my cousins hamsters was like tanish brown with a black stripe down the back of it.she had like 1 or 2 white babies and a few black ones and some like her. now my other cousins hamster had babies 2 weeks later and his hamster is white. she had a few white ones like 4 black ones a 1 or 2 tanish brown ones. now i got one white hamster from each one of the moms babies. i wanted too breed them so i waited till they were old enough so i did now they had babies. all of the babies are ok but should they all be like white cause the mom and dad were or no. they just got their fur and is is white so do you think some of them will change colors when the get a little older cause their only got their fur yesterday.

thanks : )

Answer 1

you can't really tell with hamsters but just like humans we can get "hair color" from our aunts and uncles so it is possible. But you just have to wait awhile

Answer 2

they are hamsters u never know, we went through the same dilemma. good luck!

Answer 3

there grandparents could have been wite or they could be albino

Answer 4

Well I would tell you their genes but seeing as their dwarf I can;t, I only do syrian hamster genes. See what happens is, there are two types of gene, dominant and recessive. Okay so the easiest example is blue and brown eyes. Okay so the brown eyed gene B is dominant and the blue eyed gene b is recessive. This means that if someone has both the brown and blue eyed gene they will have brown eyes because the brown eyes gene is dominant. I am a terrible teacher so that probably makes no sense, basically dominant genes always override recessive genes.

Now if someone has blue eyes they has to have 2 blue eye gense so its genes would look like this bb, but if someone had brown eyes their genes would either look like this Bb (remember B overrides b) or this BB.

Okay now say a baby has blue eyes but its parents both have brown eyes. Both its parents genes would;ve had to look like this Bb. Now the reason both parents genes have to look like this is because the baby would get one gene from each parent. So the baby could've got the B gene from one parent and other B gene from the other parent (brown eyes), or it could've got the B gene from one and the b gene from the other or vice versa (brown eyes), or ot could've got the b gene from one and the b gene from the other (blue eyes).

I don;t know if you understand that but yeah, I will explain about your hamster now lol. I don;t know how you old you are, but if you live in England you will learn about that at GCSE.

Okay so both your hamster were white right. Okay well with the first litter of hamsters your cousin bred, their mom was tan, we don't know what colour their dad and there's no use in guessing. Now I don't know which genes are recessive because I haven't done hamster genes in a while. Okay so in your question you said that there were black, white and tan hamsters. Say the white fur gene is dominant and both other genes are recessive. Say one of the babies inheritted a white fur gene from their dad and a tan fur gene from their mom, they would be white because the tan fur gene is recessive, however just because they are white, we need to remember that they still have the tan fur gene, its still there. This means that if the white hamster with the tan fur genes breeds with any hamster their babies will either be white or tan, depending on the other hamster it breeds with.

Its really complex. I've tried to explain it.

Just a note, I don;t know for a fact which genes are dominant or reccesssive, I'v just made it up to help you understand, like I said I never learned dwarf hamster genes I only syrian. This is just to help you understand, that just because your hamster if white doesn;t mean it doesn;t have other colours hidden away in its genetic code.