Lavender Meadows Hamstery

08/21/2024

Pink butterfly photoshoot with the beautiful cream girls! ❤️

There are 3 girls in total so one photo is a duplicate. Love them so much!

Which one is your favourite? Pup selection details will go out in about 1-3 weeks to adopters. Normally it goes out earlier but because we have four litters, I need a bit more time to see what I have in the other litters before I send out all the available babies.

We should have a litter coming for October/November and then a few litters timed for middle/end of December.

08/14/2024

Cute moments from our livestream last night on Instagram! Just the first of the 4 litters we have 🤭☺️ on Instagram!

Adoptable via waitlist and application form.

We will have lots of pups for September and the next adoption season will be in December!

08/07/2024

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Updates for adopters & friends interested in our hamsters! 🇨🇦

Currently, we have two litters, one of them is two weeks old and the other is only a few days old. We will be introducing both litters in the upcoming weeks and contacting adopters in the waitlist order for them. These are rust/chocolate-based

An additional two litters are also on the way due this week. We will post about them when they are 14 days old. They are extreme dilute/polywhite litters.

Hamsters are adoptable throughout Canada with shared shipping available (60-120) depending on how many people share the flight

If all goes well, there will be a lot of pups ready for homes from the 1st to 3rd week of September. I am hoping that everyone on the waitlist (up to August 2024) will get a hamster!

Our next litter (we have 3 planned at least) for adoption will be in the middle of December. More or less the litters will be timed around Christmas. We will share more about how the Christmas litters work later on. Application, waitlist, and policies still apply during this time. We likely will not be breeding during October - November because we will be busy with school and academics!

If you're interested in a hamster from the September babies - please fill out the application form and send a message either facebook or on instagram.
https://forms.gle/FXYXf4XjVVrrYyHy7

Thank you all for your support and have a wonderful day!

07/31/2024

Bella Noodles Jr (extreme dilute golden long hair ) photos that I took when I first got her in June 💕 we are the first and only hamstery in BC with the gene. She will be the first mom at the hamstery to have ED babies!

I am so excited to be working ED and can not wait to get tortoiseshells and ED in a variety of colors🤩🤭 ED gene isn’t found in pet stores in Canada so it’s a privilege to be able to import this gene and breed it to the show standards

07/19/2024

My goal of developing an army of chonky hamsters 😂

Litters are on the way 🤭 but I’m going to wait another week to talk about it to not jinx it!

Going to do some photos this week if the hamsters. Was going to do this last week but I was so busy with work/life!

07/14/2024

07/09/2024

29 day old babies update 💕

07/04/2024

Bella noodles JR (import) looking so adorable with the daisy background! Our summer garden is in full bloom! Took two of the hams outside for photos! I’ll be using my camera to photograph them. Soooo cuteeeeee 😭😭💕🐹

07/03/2024

Momma Poppy followed by adorable babies!!!! She is such a good mom. Very protective of babies when they were young but she isn’t aggressive (towards me) thank goodness, which makes handling so much easier. I love her to pieces 😭 she is so precious!

This litter is more or less taken. 2 more litters are coming up (promise!!) one is confirmed! Hopefully that will help the waitlist a bit! In summer the adoptions go slow as many are away, but pace will pickup again in August onwards!

07/03/2024

Many people ask how my hamsters are so chonky😂 part of it is the genetics but it’s also the diet.

Supplemental food in the making! Main protein is chicken and bass fillets this round. 10+ types of veggie/fruits. Made several batches - hopefully it lasts me at least 3 weeks lol. The food is blended and then frozen. When I need it, I will steam it and serve. The third picture (sample not mine, mine are still baking) shows protein biscuits similar ingredients but not as much protein. Baby hamsters get fresh supplemental food every day. chicken must be COOKED (I steam the entire mix)

supplemental foods is mainly for the babies/junior hamsters that still need to gain weight. Adult hamsters will also get it but not as often and in small amounts. The protein we used today include to

07/02/2024

One of our upcoming litters. Mama Dream Catcher will be due at the end of the week. She is black hamster -polywhite carrier. Hoping to see some homozygous polywhite tort babies in the litter. All babies will also be rex carriers 🎉

Wishing DC the best with her babies and praying everything goes smoothly for her 💕💕🌸

Dream Catcher (Brookside) x Picasso (Lavender Meadows)

Thank you Brookside for the lovely hamsters

07/02/2024

daughter like mother! 💕💕 Mama poppy is doing such a good job raising the babies. We will be posting a lot of baby pictures! Stay tuned!

06/13/2024

🇺🇸🇺🇸 2024 USA IMPORT 🐹✈️💸

Yesterday we had 10 hamsters from Utah come to us!

First, they took a 2-hour flight from Utah to Seattle and then were driven 4 hours across the Pacific border, which is when we met our transporter! Overall the flight drop-off and pickup, went very smoothly, so thanks a lot Delta Cargo. Shipping is very safe for hamsters when done correctly but can be difficult to get started as you need IATA-approved crates.

These amazing hamsters come from Bill at Brookside Hamstery in Utah whose work with Syrian hamsters is to preserve and study all the genes in Syrian hamsters. These hamsters officially add 3 new colour projects to our breeding lines! Our blue breeding group came from Doug at Doug’s Kritters and they are phenomenal!

1. Blue
2. Extreme dilute in rex
3. Polywhite + dominant spot

It has been a long wait and planning process for almost four months so it is very relieving to see it work. I will still be breeding our rex & chocolate/rust group along with these new colours. Perhaps, the polywhite and dominant spot will eventually go into the chocolate line as well.

Moreover, I am grateful to be part of this particular group of breeders. There is no gatekeeping, drama, double standards, or petty and toxic actions. I may not agree with everyone on some topics but at the end of the day, I know I am in a community where everyone is just passionate about working improving on the hamster species. That is what I care about.

A huge and heartfelt thank you to Bill, Doug, and Becky for making this import happen! Thank you to Bill, who planned this import with me for months, answered my questions, listened to my rant on the phone and helped me choose the best hamsters for the breeding groups. Thank you to Doug for the blue breeding group. They are amazing and soft! Finally, thank you to Becky for making the last part of the hamster’s trip possible. If it wasn’t for you, I don’t know how I would’ve gotten these hamsters to Canada. (International flights require IPATA agents and you can’t ship so many hamsters without a commercial license)

05/29/2024

💜 so grateful for them!! #仓鼠 #金丝熊仓鼠 #金丝熊 #仓鼠宝宝 #卷毛金丝熊 #可爱

05/28/2024

Good morning everyone!

Mocha IV thinking“Let me go and eat in peace” 🤣🤣 her patterns are gorgeous

Chocolate banded tortoiseshell (cream and rex carrier)

05/28/2024

Picasso hit 190g this morning!! 3.4 months old baby growing fast. I hope he will hit 240g soon 🤞

05/28/2024

So stunning 🤩 love my rex rust tortoiseshell keeper - Poppy! She is really sassy

05/24/2024

I have had people ask about our feeding routine! Morning feeds usually take 20 minutes while evening feedings are close to an hour as we prepare fresh veggies and get everything ready

Our hamsters get a table spoon of homemade seed mix every 1-2 days. Every morning they get lab blocks made into porridge texture with supplements + a 12 veggies diced mix. Every evening they get the same thing as the morning but in larger quantities to last them the entire night. We add in flax, chia, debittered yeast, freeze dried salmon and cod powder in the morning to help with the hamsters coats. The hamsters also get different kitchen scraps every day.

Diet is really key to healthy hamsters 🐹

05/24/2024

Really want to name him pipsqueak! 😍😂

We have so many litters planned for the summer so if you’re wanting a hammy please reach out and fill out the application. We will still have a waitlist but it will be short if the litters go smoothly!

Not overbreeding - our breeding females are all of age (4+ months)

https://forms.gle/469ihZoSW5TLx2wk8

#金丝熊

05/23/2024

Wine glass x hammy 💜
#金丝熊

05/23/2024

Potential mom? 😍 Really excited for her babies💕

05/22/2024

mochaccino’s babies - so cute right? Do you see your hamster in these 😉 from 2022

05/21/2024

baby chonks 😍which one is your fav?

05/20/2024

Beautiful chocolate tortoiseshell markings on Mocha IV 😍 she is stunning I love her!!

05/20/2024

Picasso finally got his official photos taken with the lavender meadows backdrop 😆 all of our babies and breeding hamsters have their photos taken here at some point!

05/18/2024

Picasso getting fluffy 🤣💜

05/11/2024

The birthday litter are all super photogenic, especially Poppy!