Breeds of hamsters with photos

Below we describe the most common breeds of hamsters with photos and features:

Common, Golden, or Syrian Hamster
Golden hamster is the most common of this type of rodent race. It is also that reaches larger hovering around 15 cm in length. This type of hamster tend to be more sociable and quiet. Even though its name indicates a golden brown color, we can find many different colors in this breed: grey, white, Browns, Albino,...

Russian Hamster
Russian hamster is small, measuring about 10 cm., this race has a dorsal black line on the back, it has rounded ears and a short 1 cm tail. Their fur is very dense, which makes them seem larger than they really are. His character is sociable, although it is something more territorial than other hamster with the members of their species.

Campbell Hamster
The Campbell are a race of dwarf hamster that often haunt the 10 cm. One of their greatest differences is that they have a very populated fur and hair-covered feet. They also are distinguished by having more raised ears, prominent eyes and a snout a puco more prominent than other breeds of hamsters. They also tend to be less sociable than other breeds.

Chinese hamster
This is one of the hamster more small, since it hardly exceeds 8 cm. For its size and for its tail, gets to look like a u common mouse. The color of these hamsters are usually grey or brown in different shades.

Hamster Roborowski
It measures one 5 to 7 cm. What is the breed of hamsters more small we can find. These hamster are nervous, hyperactive and mischievous and we provide them with a large cage, running tunnels and casters so they can be all day around. This type of hamsters likes to live with other members of their species, so we will not have problems to put several in a same cage, always and when go for no more than one male. Normally Brown clear, although there is a variety with white face.