Godfreys babies are growing fast.

Just one week old last friday Godfrey and Onas' babies are doing really well. There are three, two little greys and a mandarin which is really brightly coloured.

Its fantastic watching them grow and Godfrey is very kindly letting me take the photos but I still only get about a minute before he covers them to keep them warm.

Ona is a great mum but once the cage lids off she is trying to climb out at every opportunity!

Hastati and Hiroshiges' beautiful family.

Hastati and Hiro have eight gorgeous babies.

In these photos you can see all four of their Mandarin ( orange coloured) babies, both of their Grey or Agouti ( black and brown striped) and one of their Sapphires... the other was camera shy!

The babies are two weeks old on monday and full of beans. At three weeks they will be totally self sufficient individuals and Hastati may have her next litter if she is pregnant again.

This is her third litter and she has done a fantastic job, she is really perky....she climbed up the chair and into my sleeve while I was taking the photos!

Both her and Hiro are incredibly friendly, inquisitive and bright and ... their kids take after them.

Dont look its Witchetty Grubs again!

Now David has left the jungle the hammies are watching I'm A Celebrity again..

Poppy is trying to protect Astacius from the horrors of the latest Bush Tucker Trial!

Staying where its nice and warm.

Sangria has decided its far too cold and that she's going to stay in bed. She is a very pretty ruby eyed brown but the flash has washed all the colour out.

Saint Bernard ventures from their warm nest.

He and Sangria have been together since September. He got his name because his mother is The Scream and his father is Blizzard so if you combined the two you might get a Saint Bernard... if you were lucky :)

He has actually changed colour from pale sapphire to almost white. He is the first winter white who I have seen do this.

I'm A Hamster Get Me Out Of Here!

Hastati and Hiro can't stand it for one second longer!

They can no longer bear to watch "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!" because David is driving them to their nuts!

His fly swat and hair really really frightens them!

Hastati and Hiroshiges' babies.

Hastati (black eyes) and Hiroshige (red eyes ) had their babies on the 24th of November.

The photos at the bottom show the babies at a few days old and Hastati nursing them.

Hiro has been a very involved father, he loves his kids and nurses them a great deal of the time so Hastati can have a break as she is rearing eight babies...that's a lot of kids!

In the more recent photos( immediately below) the babies are just one week old. Their colouring is showing and they are fully covered in fur. They will open their eyes soon and I will take some more photos.

Carmina Burana and Bob The Builder

Carmina and Bob are fantastic parents, they are now rearing their third litter of six gorgeous little Sapphire babies. The babies are three weeks old tomorrow and are already weaned.

Carmina (left on wheel ) is named after the oratorio because as a baby and teen she would scream or swear at anything. When I first put them together if Bob went near her she'd swear at him and I was worried they weren't happy together, that was until I saw her swear at him then run after him when he walked off!

Bob is a nest builder extraordinaire, I have never seen his like before! In the first two days with Car he demolished a loo roll inner a day to provide a vast nest. I had always intended to give him a fanciful name (like all my other hamsters have) but he got nick named Bob and it stuck. He rarely ceases from his quest for the perfect nest, in the centre photo you can see him reaching for sawdust to throw back into the nest,unfortunately poor Car got it in the face!

The Scream and Blizzard.

Today, as the weather worstens, and we get closer to Christmas I thought it would be an opportune time to introduce The Scream (left) and Blizzard. They are one of my retired couples and still very happy together.

Scream got her name because, as a teen, she would scream and swear whenever I picked her up. She never meant it (she never bit me) just swore A LOT!

Blizzard is a babe and takes after his father Zephyrus both in very good looks and his lovely attitude.

They are both camera strap nibblers as you can see :)

It's snowing...meet my snow couple!

Epona and Avalanche have decided to stay in bed. Its winter and these two look like the snow we've got.They are a lovely pair of Pearl winters and are Chirosciro's parents. It looks as though they have retired now but they are still really happy together...they're very sweet and very pretty. Epona used to have big litters of mostly pearl babies which were like little cotton wool balls.

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.