Why is the babies fur so dark when the parents fur isn ?
The fur that comes in right away is usually darker than it will be later. It’s a special kind of fur called a guard-coat. It may turn darker later if the hamster is going to have black or brown fur. The exception is that babies that are going to have white fur look pink at first, until the fur grows in. Sometimes the babies look like the mother, father, or both. Other times, a baby looks totally different, maybe like a grandparent or great-grandparent. You never know. It is very exciting to see what the babies look like after the first couple of weeks! If you look at the last page of my hamster journal, the Epilogue, you can see that Calvin had very dark brown fur originally, and then it turned to a light tan later.
