Recessive Dappled Photo Gallery

(All photos are of hamsters from the River Road Hamstery
except as otherwise noted.)

There are very few Recessive Dappled hamsters in existence in the Western hemisphere.  Outside of Russia (and perhaps its near neighbors) this hamstery has been the only known repository for the gene since the Delaware hamster club (and with it Spice Teddybear Hamstery) folded.  In 2003 some RDs and RD carriers were shipped to AAA Hamsters in California and Chesapeake Hamstery in Maryland to help preserve and develop the pattern.  The task at hand has been to keep the pattern from extinction in this part of the world, and as a consequence, attention to type has been lacking. The first RD bred at the River Road Hamstery, the "poster girl" for the genetics site, is shown above.  Below are a pair of Satin Longhairs, female (left) and male (right), multiple generations removed from the first one.

The rest of the hamsters on the page are from Spice Teddybear Hamstery's original Recessive Dappled lines descended from the single hamster brought from Estonia.  (Reproduced courtesy of Spice Teddybear Hamstery.)

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