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Thank you very much everybody. I feel much better about feeding veg now. 

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I can understand it would be nice to get a robo that has different colouring. I think Orko's colouring seems to be the most common of all the robos I see in rescue.
Do you know which colouring Orko had? All the robos look so similar to me. Maybe due to my bad eye sight!That's interesting Daisy. Was that your hamsteR? I find there can be some confusion about "white face" generally as there is a white faced husky which is a colour, and a white faced normal hamster which is a gene (I think!). Is the husky gene that's recessive and the normal white faced gene that's dominant? I need to check!
Is Pip a white faced normal?I think Orko was a white faced normal. Like Nugget above. Daisy - the hamster in the photo looks a bit like a Husky, with the more orange colouring?
Orko's colouring always reminded me of Pip's.Actually maybe Orko was a normal too - looking at your photo - I just remembered you saying he had a white face.
I think Orko was a white faced normal. Like Nugget above. Daisy - the hamster in the photo looks a bit like a Husky, with the more orange colouring?
I find the Wayback Machine really helpful for looking up defunct websites. It archives websites so they can be viewed even once taken down. I'm not sure if you are referring to Oak Farm Rabbits and Roborovskis but I did look up that website earlier if it's helpful: https://web.archive.org/web/20180109094743/http://www.oakfarmrabbitsandrodents.co.uk/home.htmlI know you're not keen on breeding discussions Beryl, but there was a very good Robo breeder some years ago (I don't think she's around any more as her website closed down). And they were quite committed to breeding out the neurological aspects of the white faced gene so each subsequent litter was clear of the neurological issue, and each of those litters when they had litters, wouldn't pass it on either - which is possible. So all future offspring were born healthy and wouldn't develop neurological issues. I don't know the details of how that worked, but it does come down to breeding practices sometimes, and as we know, factory breeders don't seem to care about that kind of thing.
It's a shame her website is gone as there were some really useful pages and information about everything to do with Roborovski hamsters.
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