Godfrey proudly presents his new babies.

Yesterday Godfrey and Onager had their second litter of three lovelly little pinks. They are both such friendly animals they let me take some pictures, although I was only allowed a minuit before Godfrey covered them back up.

Onager was distracted by chewing the camera strap!

Sunday lunch was large!

Godfrey and Onager have over indulged in their lunch. Now the teens have left home there is more for them and they're making the most of it.

Eating jumpers!

Scorpio tried her best to chew bits out of my jumper to make into her nest.

Shes a real nibbler and will try and pull anything into her nest including my camera strap.

She is a pale apricot coloured mandarin not white as she appears here.

Scorpio sends the sand flying!

Scorpio and Licentiosas have their sand changed, as soon as they have new sand they climb straight in.

Winter whites LOVE their sand baths. It keeeps their fur clean and they really enjoy it as you can see from Scorpio here as she sends the sand flying!

Scorpio has four babies at the moment...Ive been trying to get photos of them but they're so fast :)

Wheel hammock.

Three of Pheonix and The Leviathans' babies dozing in the wheel.

They had six babies in this litter and the whole family would try and fit in the wheel it was so funny. I will post more of those photos soon. Its looking like Phe has decided one lot of babies is enough but they are both still very happy together. These are some of Fire Sprites' brothers and sisters.

Fire Sprite loves millett.

This is the exquisite Fire Sprite.

Sprite is a red eyed Mandarin and very unusual, she looks very much like her grandfather Howitzer. The flash washes out her colour in the photos but her eyes are that red!

Sprite and Hokusai (right) get on really really well ,they are so sweet together. They have had one litter so far which included Kuniyoshi, I hope there will be more to follow as Kuni is a real little star. I'm really hoping he and Rubyfly will have other red eyed Mandarin babies.

The Teens move out.

Godfrey and Onagers kids have now moved out.

They seem to have settled with another pair of teens who needed to leave home because their mum, Blood Ruby ( Captain Bloods daughter) is raising a tiny baby and she needed the space.
Winters mix reasonably well when they're this young but start to get bolshy by five weeks when they can start to squabble and have to be split into boys and girls to avoid accidents!

Godfreys and Onagers' teens.

Godfrey's kids are now just over three weeks old, totally self sufficient and lively teens.

Onager is heavily pregnant and now she has weaned them she is ready for them to leave home. Most of the winter white mums get a bit grumpy with their teens as they get more heavily pregnant so I will be taking these out today before she gets too irritated by them.

Its understandable not wanting four teenagers rampaging around when you are the equivalent to eight months pregnant!

Godfrey wants a break.

Godfrey just wanted some time to himself on the wheel....its a refuge for most of my dad hamsters, but Onager had something to say about having to cope with four teenaged kids by herself.

Godfrey the proud father.

Godfrey Service is a wonderful dad as you can see from this photo of him with his kids. He has four lovely babies with his girlfriend Onager.
The babies are about two weeks old in this photo. I have decided to keep one of the orange coloured "Mandarins" to hopefully have a family of their own.

Meet the "Cover Boys".

Introducing my cover models.... Tortuga and De Muerta.

They were babies in the "cover" photo, now (in this pic) they're one and a half months old and still living together which is unusually friendly for boys of this age.
Their father Maelstrom is one of my oldest and most gorgeous boys....and, even though he is totally gorgeous, he won't pose for a photo! I will keep trying :)

They are Tia Dalma and Astacius' younger brothers.
This line of hammies is named after "Pirates of the Caribbean" . There will be photos of more of the family soon.

My newest couple.

This is Rubyfly (left) and Kuniyoshi.

They are my newest couple, I paired them on Friday and they seem to really like each other. He has a particularly friendly temperament and is a gorgeous colour. They are both Orange but his colour is stronger. I love Orange Winters' because of their amazing red eyes. The colour they appear in the photo is not due to flash they really are that red! Sadly Ruby's dad passed away after only having fathered one litter so she is extra special.

Kuni is a superb nest builder and is really impressing Ruby by building her the most extravagant nest. It seems to have worked as she follows him everywhere.

Pyro playing in his bedding.

Pyrotechnic.

Pyro is one of my retired boys, he is really lovely lad, he reared his last litter alone when his girlfriend got very tired. She needed time alone to recuperate after the babies were weaned so the babies stayed with Pyro and he reared them, he was fantastic with them. He is now enjoying the single lifestyle again.

He is a beautiful ruby-eyed mandarin. The photo doesn't show the colour of his lovelly apricot coloured mandarin coat or his eyes, they are a very dark red wine colour and look black unless the light catches them.

Snoozing

In my blog I would like to introduce you to some of my gorgeous hamsters.

Today it is one of my families of winter white dwarf hamsters.

This is Poppykettle (on the left), her man Astacius (on the right) with two of their kids from their first litter.

As you can see from the photo of Astacius at the bottom of my blog it can be very hard work being a dad!