Cinnamon

After over a year of keeping hedgehogs as pets, I've only came across the common Salt & Pepper and Albino colours. I've seen plenty of pictures of Apricots, Cinnamons, Champagnes and even combinations like Cinnicots, but sadly there weren't many breeders who are truly experimenting on hedgehog colours.

Picture courtesy of www.hedgehogclub.com

I mentioned previously that Quills gave birth to 5 hoglets about 2 months ago, and right now I'm left with a Salt & Pepper and an Albino. I've decided to keep the Albino male for future colour breedings, and I should probably thank my lucky stars that yesterday a fellow breeder sent me a message saying that his friend would like to get a Salt & Pepper but he only has Cinnamons.

You can't possibly NOT see what's coming up next, can you?

Yes, we agreed to trade our hoglets, a male S&P with a female Cinnamon. Although the Cinnamon is only about a month old and I'll need to wait until next month before I can pick it up.

If the trade's successful I will officially be keeping a male S&P, a unique white female S&P snowflake (which I have yet to be able to breed the colour), a male Albino and a female Cinnamon.

Four hedgehogs with different colour genes, although three of the hedgehogs will have same bloodlines which limits my colour experimentations, but that will be a good start for my hobby.

Apricots and Champagnes are a little more difficult to obtain, especially since keepers of these rare colours aren't breeders and the breeders who has these colours have retired from the hobby.

But this will be a start of something.