10-29-2007, 03:35 AM
Yes, you heard right. You pick the daddy. The daddy of the hamsters, that is. 
Here's the deal. I have a female I'd like to breed tonight, as she's in heat. She's Geo, the sable banded daughter of Freya and Charlie. Here are some pics:
(Geo is at the top in the top photo, and on the top left in the bottom photo)
Now here are the possible suitors:
1) Tyr, who is the son of Freya and Rousseau. That makes him Geo's half-brother (zoinks!)
... the advantage here is that he's one of only two animals I have left from Freya's first mating, so this really maximizes Freya's genes in the mix. The disadvantage is that Tyr's father Rousseau was a red-eyed cream-- red eyes comes from cinnamon (pp), so that means that there's a possibility that in the babies there would be about a quarter red-eyed animals if Geo carries cinnamon (e.g., is Pp). The red-eyed animals would most likely be mink, but could be red-eyed cream. I don't care for the mink color at all.
2) An as-yet unnamed son of Polo (brother to Geo) and Anastasia. That makes him Geo's nephew (double zoinks!)
(He's on the right in the top photo)
... the advantage here is that he's a kind of nice dark sable, and it's likely therefore that any babies he'd father with Geo would be PP or Pp (e.g., no possibility of minks). The disadvantage is that I just crossed his brother (in the photo above, he's the cream) with Inky, who is Geo's sister (Inky is shown in the above photos as the solid sable in the pics with Geo). So that would be me crossing, in each case, a nephew to an aunt, where the nephews are themselves brothers and the aunts are themselves sisters. (!)
What do y'all think? Who should be the daddy, Tyr or the other guy?
Here's the deal. I have a female I'd like to breed tonight, as she's in heat. She's Geo, the sable banded daughter of Freya and Charlie. Here are some pics:
(Geo is at the top in the top photo, and on the top left in the bottom photo)
Now here are the possible suitors:
1) Tyr, who is the son of Freya and Rousseau. That makes him Geo's half-brother (zoinks!)
... the advantage here is that he's one of only two animals I have left from Freya's first mating, so this really maximizes Freya's genes in the mix. The disadvantage is that Tyr's father Rousseau was a red-eyed cream-- red eyes comes from cinnamon (pp), so that means that there's a possibility that in the babies there would be about a quarter red-eyed animals if Geo carries cinnamon (e.g., is Pp). The red-eyed animals would most likely be mink, but could be red-eyed cream. I don't care for the mink color at all.
2) An as-yet unnamed son of Polo (brother to Geo) and Anastasia. That makes him Geo's nephew (double zoinks!)
(He's on the right in the top photo)
... the advantage here is that he's a kind of nice dark sable, and it's likely therefore that any babies he'd father with Geo would be PP or Pp (e.g., no possibility of minks). The disadvantage is that I just crossed his brother (in the photo above, he's the cream) with Inky, who is Geo's sister (Inky is shown in the above photos as the solid sable in the pics with Geo). So that would be me crossing, in each case, a nephew to an aunt, where the nephews are themselves brothers and the aunts are themselves sisters. (!)
What do y'all think? Who should be the daddy, Tyr or the other guy?
