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Granted Chaos Exotics

Syrian and Dwarf Hamster breeder focused on producing show quality hamsters.

06/12/2024

Ms. Tofu, the absolute cuddliest bug of litter A (Pfizer x Carfax). This girl will be going to Juli Burton next month on transport!

Tofu's hobbies include sitting in your hand, snacking, and digging like crazy! She is out if a pairing that was specifically to improve for eye size, but sometimes you get some small eyed babies while looking for better ones. If she'd had nicer eye size she very well may have stayed here for breeding, but instead she's going to be a spoiled cuddle bug for her new family!

06/12/2024

Touching baby hamsters?

Disclaimer: this is not something i recommend in cases of rescues, or generally with hamsters from pet stores. Please discuss with anyone who you source hamsters from about the tolerance of their lines, and know that with less tolerant or unpedigreed lines it comes with risks.

In hobby breeding, the ultimate goal is always to improve the species in captivity. This includes structure, color, temperament, and in many rodent species it also includes breeding out unwanted traits that are useful in the wild, but can worsen the bond between animal and owner in captivity.

Hamsters are prey animals, and they have a variety of behaviors that they use in the wild to ensure their survival. These include skittishness, a tendency to bite suspected predators, territorial behavior towards others in their space, and maternal aggression. Maternal aggression is a mother rodent's tendency to hurt or kill her children to recover resources when they suspect they may be in danger, or unable to raise them to adulthood.

In the mouse and rat fancies, which have been around significantly longer than the hamster fancy, this behavior is strictly disallowed by most reputable breeders, and individuals that display it are not used for breeding. Many hamster breeders use a similar system, breeding out maternal and territorial aggression. This allows our pups to br heavily monitored from a young age, as well as to give ENS and begin to desensitize pups to handling. This means when their eyes open at 2 weeks, they've already begun seeking me out for attention, which greatly improves the time I spend bonding with and getting to know each pup. I do this for all species, Syrians, Campbell's hybrids, and Roborovski Hamsters.

Additionally, I plan to post more pictures of young pups, to show other breeders and keepers that these improvements in the species are possible. Feel free to ask questions below, or send a PM if you have a question you feel like you can't get answered.

05/28/2024

hi friends! Just a heads up i may be slow to reply this week, I unfortunately have a virus and its got me sleeping like 85% of the day. I'll be focusing on keeping up with socializing all the babies, so if you dont hear from me quickly please understand I will respond as soon as I'm well enough.
Additionally, the moderna × carfax litter are facing a bit of temperament issues. It's only affecting a few pups, but I will likely not be making those pups available to normal pet homes. All three blue pups seem good so far, but a few agoutis and opals have sub par temperaments, so I'll need to more extensively test each pup to understand where their issues lie so i can eliminate this issue by not including those pups in my program.
I've been extremely spoiled that Pfizer's litter is so incredible, but we were working against poor type there, so its been a really interesting experience to see poorer type with better temperament vs better type with poorer temperament 😅

05/21/2024

so excited to see another robo breeder starting up!

05/21/2024

D'ya think if we look this way he'll stop takin our pictures and give us treats?
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Thanks boys 🙄
(from Moderna × Carfax litter)

05/18/2024

A good look at the lovely girls I'm sending to Sweet Sunset Rodentry in a few weeks!
Fibromyalgia (or Fib) - Agouti, she carries argente and opal, and may carry black
Lyme Disease (or Lye) - Opal, carries argente and may carry black
These two girls are going to becme the foundation of a new campbells hybrid program, I absolutely cannot wait to see them grow up, and I hope I'll be able to get some of their future children or grandchildren one day 🥰

05/01/2024

Health Testing for hamsters, is it a thing, and should you be doing it?
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Health testing as you see it in cats, dogs, rats, reptiles, etc, really doesn't exist for hamsters. Even getting a hamster looked over by an exotic vet doesn't guarantee they won't pass of something congenital. There are absolutely ways to go about checking on your hamsters' health, and it is a good idea for all owners and breeders to check these things on their pets:

- Feel along the animals spine to ensure there are no bumps or abnormalities.

-Monitor their weight, and adjust their diet and enrichment as needed.
- If an animal is losing weight, check that they are getting an adequete protein/fiber/fat ratio. If they continue to lose weight, remove their wheel until cause of weight loss is found to prevent them from running off calories they can't afford to lose.
- If they are gaining weight, monitor that they are using their enrichment like wheels, and if they aren't consider switching to a different size or style (if your hamster won't use an upright wheel, try offering them an appropriately sized saucer. the 7" for robos and other dwarfs or the 11-12" for dwarfs (not robos, in my playpen the robos can rarely ever successfully push those) or syrians. Some hamster genuinely won't use an upright wheel, and there are ways to midigate improper saucer use, like attaching something to the center so they need to run closer to the edge for a straight back).

- Check their teeth. Learn a proper restraint hold for your species so you can regularly assess their teeth and pouch health. I recommend all owners desensitizing their hamsters to proper scruffing, and I start scruffing my pups as early as possible to help them not become stressed during health checks (let me know if you'd like me to make a video on how to properly scruff each species and check their teeth). Their teeth should be a proper length and a nice shade of yellow/orange, and should be generally the same length on both sides. White teeth or different length teeth mean there is likely something wrong.

-Monitor their poops! When you go to steal the poops from their cage, monitor that they're generally the same size and a consistant dark brown color. The poops should not be yellow or green, and they should not be smearing. These can be signs of wet tail in syrians, other bacterial infections in any species, or too much fresh food.

-Watch for bright clear eyes! Monitor for any milky-ness, these can be signs of age, but can also be signs of kidney issues.

You can also ketone test your hybrids, winter whites, and campbells dwarf hamsters to monitor for diabetes. I do so with all of my pups every other week until they are 12 weeks old, and do so with my adults as needed. If you'd like a post about ketone testing, please let me know!
(have a cute picture of hamster butts as tax 😆)

04/24/2024

Its cuddle days over here!
This litter theme is going to be medical! Everyone will be named after a disease, syndrome, virus, etc! It'll be a few more weeks before most get names picked out, since I'll have to split them into smaller groups to be able to tell them apart 😅

04/21/2024

Here with some good news and bad news today!

Bad news first: due to some life issues, we are having to discontinue breeding syrians for the time being. Neither of the girls who were paired took, so we will be offering two of our girls (Meredith, a SH BEC, and Chive, a SH dove) to fellow breeders, and if there is no interest they will be up for pet homes soon. Our founding male and one of our older females will remain here for the rest of their lives as pets. There will also likely be a bit of time before we have any more robo pairings, our male colony and female colony are going to just enjoy being happy and doted on, and a few will be offered to other breeders (or have already been selected by other breeders). We may have one litter here and there to maintain the genetic lines until we are prepared to focus on breeding again, but for now focus will be on our hybrids, and general life stuff.

Now for the good news: We have open eyes from Pfizer and Carfax's litter, and Moderna is due any day now. They've been lovely and the teensy runt of the litter is getting hand fed critical care several times a day to help her keep up with her siblings, she's active and enthusiastic to eat though, so it appears she will pull through (though she may be tiny as an adult, we'll see!). As these are hybrids, and we work with the opal gene, all pups from hybrid litters are held back until 12 weeks (or as close to that age as possible, depending on transport availability). We hope to be able to move this minimum age to 6-8 weeks as you'd normally see from syrian breeders eventually, but not until we have a generation or two further into the pedigree to ensure no early onset diabetes pops up.

Thank you to all the amazing breeders I work with, and to my mentors and friends I've made in this community! I'll try to get on photographing the babies in the next few days, but I still do not have a light box, so I'll be working on a temporary setup to get decent photos taken 😅

04/12/2024

my silly girls!

04/12/2024

Happy World Hamster Day everyone! We have squeaks in the nest for one of our hybrids, and hope to be showing them off here very soon 🥰Pfizer (shown below!) is extremely proud of her pups and will be thrilled when she gets to share them with all our lovely past and future adopters 🐹
Credit to Hannah Yi for the amazing photography

04/03/2024

Another huge thank you to Milkbun Hamstery for both the lovely robos, and for the fantastic photography session you did for my dwarfs and robos!
Over the next couple weeks y'all will get to see all the amazing photos she took for me 💕

03/27/2024

Hi hamfam! Long post ahead with updates on the hamstery for each of our programs!

Robos: Very happy to announce I'll be getting a few robos from Milkbun Hamstery next week to outcross into my program! I have two litters of robos at the moment, one of all blue/recessive pied carrier agoutis, and one of blue pied. As of now there will be none available for pet homes from these two litters, and if there are they will only be available to friends / approved breeding placements.

Hybrid adopters: We finally found a good outcross male for the line! He's a large agouti (named Carfax) so I'm hoping he'll improve size, and he has a lovely temperament. He's been paired to Pfizer, and will be paired to Moderna at the same time I'll be pairing my syrians, so expect a baby boom in a few weeks! We're still looking for another outcross or two, but this male is what we needed to make sure this line continues towards my goal of puppy like temperaments, so I'm very happy about that!

Syrian adopters: I have one SH black female who isn't meeting my growth and type goals as a hold back, I'll be reaching out to my wait list early next week to offer her to those homes, and otherwise should have 2 syrians bred in about a week (a rebreed between Meredith and Cream Cheese in hopes of a good male to hold back this time!), and Christina will be ready to pair again upon returning, so she will be paired to Cream Cheese as well (should have a little of yellow males and tort females!).

I need to do a LOT of updating on my kintraks, but I'm hoping to have that done tonight (including all weigh ins and pups added) to better monitor growth and cleaning schedules. I apologize for my lack of regular updates, I'm hoping to set up a light box to take a bunch of photos soon, and from there I'll attempt to keep up semi regular posts! If you have any questions that you think would make for a good informational post, please feel free to adk either in the comments or VIA messenger!

Carfax and Pfizer for tax 🥰

03/10/2024

I have a couple people who had their hopes up for a syrian litter, sad to say it'll be a couple months before we have any! Christina's litter was stillborn, and no one else will have aged into breeding range for another 6 weeks or so.
I do have a litter of 6 robos right now, but I do not think any will go to pet homes this litter! Please feel free to reach out if you're wanting to be put on the wait list for syrians, hybrids, or robos! Also always feel free to reach out for recommendations of other breeders. Thank y'all for your continued patience 🥰
(some playpen time Christina got recently)

03/03/2024

trying to set up a full time playpen in my room for letting hamsters have out of cage time and i forgot how much these stupid connecters HURT to put together

02/20/2024

Meet my hybrid program!
On the left are 3 sisters (top to bottom: Moderna, Pfizer, and JJ), though JJ is just being kept as a pet as she doesn't have the Campbell's type I am breeding for. On the right is their brother Umami! I'm very excited to find some new critters to bring into this program, ideally I want to find a black male for Pfizer, an agouti male for Moddie, and an argente female for Umami to work towards my next generation!

02/09/2024

RESERVED
This is Blueberry (full name: GCE's Para-More Blueberry, Please!), a SH Black Male Syrian!
He's big on snacks and loves climbing up my arm for attention during play time. He's very tolerant of handling, so he'd make a good pet for both adults and families with older children.

He's looking for a new zipcode in a few weeks, so feel free to reach out if you're interested in him or his available sisters! We will absolutely work with transport to get him to his forever home!
-available to pet home only (was one of the smaller of the litter, so not a good breeding candidate)
-I will confirm buyer husbandry practices before placing a hold on any critter in my hamstery!
Please feel free to each out with any questions over messanger or discord (user habitrailz)

02/09/2024

An amazing robo breeder in GA! Please check her out!

02/07/2024

Sorry for the poor quality video, I will not be able to set up an actual lightbox for at least a month due to moving at the very end of this month, but we have 6 babies in the hamstery right now! They're just over 3 weeks old and absolutely delightful to interact with :> I've chosen 2 hold backs, a SH dove female and SH black male, specifically for their laid back personalities and their build/color quality. That means there are 4 babies who will be ready to travel on February 25th! We will be moving to Winston-Salem, NC on the 27th, so please reach out ASAP if you are in SC and looking to bring home a fluff from this litter! I am able to deliver for a fee on the 27th, I'll make another post to discuss the areas I can transport through then.

01/23/2024

All of the syrian hams got some cucumber and sweet potato tonight that were left over from dinner! I personally don't offer fresh very often, but I've never seen such a positive reaction like I've gotten with the sweet potato! I'll be making note to dehydrate some for future supplentation 😊
Mer decided to try to share her slice, but i don't think her 'roommates' 🤭 are quite ready for solids yet
No one decided to sit still long enough before taking their snacks back home for pictures, so I'll give you this week old silly picture of my pet Fran being her goofy self 😆

01/19/2024

Cream Cheese decided to come out for some late night snuggles after I made that status last night 😅 after battling a bit of tangled bedding in his fur I got a couple pictures
He loves to come up and lick my hands if I handle him after the girls lol!

01/18/2024

I'm hoping some of the hams will come out tonight for cuddles and pictures, but this cold front has everyone tucked into their burrows right now. Not getting my hopes up 😅

01/16/2024

Meredith is an unpedigreed Shorthair Black Eyed Cream! She's a busy girl who adores making elaborate nests with paper towels and hay! She's not the most food motivated but she warmed up to me quickly and is happy to come out for a chance to run around in a playpen or on a bed! She also has a surprise for me to share with everyone soon 🙈 (my apologies, she's not incredible photogenic so this was the best picture I have of her)

01/09/2024

This is my lovely boy Cream Cheese! He is a pedigreed Golden LH Rex and a carrier of Cinnamon and Dove. He's my absolute laziest ham, he'd much rather get a treat or a handful of nesting material than a chew toy! He goes nuts for sweet potato! Thank you Winterbell Hamstery for this amazing boy for my program

01/08/2024

Meet Christina, an unpedigreed Yellow Black Shorthaired Female! This girl is a menace who I love dearly. I'm hoping in a couple months I can get some pretty torts from her to hold back ❤️ She's old enough to breed already, but she had an unsuccessful breeding recently and I'll be taking a break from pairing up my syrians for a bit so I can figure out my exact plan for this tort line going forward. I'd love to show some of her off spring later this year if my plans go the way I hope. She'll be paired to Cream Cheese again when the time is right.

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Its cuddle days over here! This litter theme is going to be medical! Everyone will be named after a disease, syndrome, virus, etc! It'll be a few more weeks before most get names picked out, since I'll have to split them into smaller groups to be able to tell them apart 😅