Campbell Hamster

Hamster is unique, attractive, and interesting pet. There are many types of hamsters:

1. Hybrid Hamster
2. Syria Hamster
3. Roborovski Hamster (Phodopus Roborovski)
4. Winter White Hamster (Phodopus Sungorus)
5. Campbell Hamster (Phodopus Campbelli)

But now I will write about Campbell Hamster ..

Campbell hamster is a nocturnal and aggressive animal. They like biting, but they just bite to try foreign thing for them and then they run off.

Campbell hamster was found by W. C. Campbell in 1902. The natural habitats are grassland, desert, and semi-desert. They don't like watery conditions, hot and windy. Usually in nature they eat seeds and insects. Pregnancy 20-22 days. In the first year, they are very productive to breed.

There are many types of Campbell hamsters:

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1. Dominant Campbell

This is native species of Campbell. which has not been mixed with cross-breeding, so it's pure. 

Color: Chocolate and has a black stripe on the back

Color of eyes: Black

2. Panda Campbell

Color: white and dark patches. At the top of the head is black

Color of eyes: Black

 

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3. Blackbeer Campbell

Color: all black

Color of eyes: Black

 

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4. Albino Campbell

Color: all white

Color of eyes: Red

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5. Argente Red Eyes Campbell

Color: White belly, bright orange on the back, and a brown line

Color of eyes: Red

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6. Argente Black Eyes Campbell

Color: The back of it cream-colored with brown stripes and has a curved orange line. The belly is white ivory and there is a dark chocolate layer below. Line back is dark brown

Color of eyes: Black

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7. Opal Campbell

Color: The fur behind the smoke gray with blue stripes, white belly color off and underneath there is a layer of soft gray. Line back is dark gray

Color of eyes: Black

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8. Lilac Fawn Campbell

Color: Brown color coated with grayish blue. Line back is grayish blue soft

Color of eyes: Black

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9. Blue Fawn Campbell

Color: bluish old cream and the bottom layer is grayish blue

Color of eyes: Red

 

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10. Black Eyes Lilac Campbell

Color: grayish purple and soft gray skin ears

Color of eyes: Black

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 11. Red Eyes Lilac Campbell

Color: grayish purple and soft pink skin ears

Color of eyes: red

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12. Blue Campbell

Color: Blue-gray ears, gray skin ears

Color of eyes: black

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13. Dove Campbell

Color: Dove dark and brownish gray and the skin of ears is pink.

Color of eyes: red

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14. Chocolate Campbell

Color: Dark Chocolate, gray skin ears

Color of eyes: Black

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15. Beige Campbell

Color: Beige color with a yellowish color, gray skin ears, a chocolate stripe on  the back

Colors of eyes: Red

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16. Blue Beige Campbell

Color: Beige color with a bluish color and the bottom layer is gray and the skin ears is gray

Color of eyes: Red

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17. Champagne Campbell

Color: light cream and has pink skin ears

Color of eyes: red

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18. Bandit Campbell

It is agile and tame. Including mini-hamster

Color: black and white domination, there is white around the neck






My campbell hamsters are panda campbell. They are so active, attractive, and they can perform acrobatic movements (salto). wow!

I have a good news from my panda hamsters :D they have three baby hamsters, amazing ^o^
They born on first of October 2011. No wonder, when I put my hamsters in a box then I took the picture for this writing complement, the female seemed so fat. In the afternoon, after I came home from Atma English Course, I intended to feed the my hamsters, evidently there was three baby hamsters in the cage :o I was shocked but I'm very happy :D

Then I separate the babies and the mother with the father, because in some cases the father eat his own babies. Then I put the babies and the mother's cage in dark place. Don't be looking at them too often, it will interfere the mother. Don't forget to drip vitamins into drink bottle.

The babies were so small, fragile, gentle, and red. Human may not touch the hamsters babies because the mother wouldn't breastfeed the babies, it will make the babies die because there are no nutrients. Their eyes will open after 12-14 days. I always wait for its growth, and I have been doing an observation on their growth ^^

HAMSTERS

Hamsters are rodents, nocturnal, and omnivorous animals. It have fat body, the tail is shorter than the body, furry ears, long whiskers, wide feet and thick fur. The color of fur depends on the species, it can be white, gray, black, brown, or red.

Hamsters are funny pets for human. It is not expensive to take care hamsters per month. You can put your hamster in glasses box (aquarium), iron cage, or in a bucket. But if you put it in a bucket, use the new bucket, because maybe there are scratches in the secondhand bucket, they can climb it or maybe detergent smell can poisoned hamsters.

Hamster sleep on sawdust or zeolit sand. The female hamster will make her nest by the sawdust and put the babies there. The babies don't have any fur with small and closed eyes. Replace the sawdust once in 3-4 days. For their bath, replace the sawdust with fruity smells sand.

The foods of hamsters are sunflower seeds, peanuts, soybeans, mung beans, red rice, concentrate, and sprouts. Never give mustard greens, leafy vegetables, and cauliflower to hamsters, they may get stomachache. Don't give a lot of sunflower seeds and peanuts to much, because sunflower seeds and peanuts contain a lot of fat, so it's not good for hamsters. Put the food in a small pottery or plastic cup and give the foods twice in a day, in the morning and evening. For the drink, give your hamsters water, put the water in a special bottle for hamster. Once a week give your hamsters snacks, it can be carrot or jelly for hamsters, so your hamster won't bored with their foods.

 
And this is the differences between the male and female hamsters.

Please prepare a toilet for hamsters and give some wet sawdust in their toilet. Remember, hamsters are neat animals. They know the differences between their bedroom, toilet, or their foods cup. If there is urine in their foods cup, they will not eat the foods even it still much and nice.

The main toy for hamsters is a wheel. The others toys are labyrinth ways and rolling ball. Don't forget to give vitamins! Drip it into their drink.

My hamsters is Winter White - Sapphire (Phodopus Sungorus). I bought them last month in a pet shop. Their name are David Villa and Aurora Borealis. They have soft gray fur and white fur at their stomach, black eyes, long white whiskers, and gray ears. Winter White - Sapphire was found in Khazakhastan and Siberia. They called Winter White because in winter their fur change into white and will be back again in summer. Unfortunately we don't have any winter in Indonesia. If you spend your time with them everyday, they will be tame in a week. If you spend your time with them everyday, they will be tame in a week.

This species is very friendly and lazy -.-" They spent most of their time for sleeping and lazing. They even sleep on their backs :O and sometime they are drinking while sleeping. The male prefer to eat sunflower seeds while the female rather eat concentrates and vegetables.