[windyhill]

Midnight x Abby
Black self X Brindle
D.o.B: 6/11/2010
Had: 10, culled to 6 (2 girls & 4 boys-will cull 3 males once I see the colors/markings)

3 Days old:

 

[miss.understood]

*awaits pictures*

 

[miss.understood]

Just curious, do you cull because you show your mice and are looking for the best quality in markings etc? xx

 

[windyhill]

I dont show my mice, but I am breeding to better them, so I cull the ones who would set me back in my breedings instead of making them better.

 

[miss.understood]

ah right i see. xx

 

[windyhill]

Sorry the picture isnt too clear. Had to use a different camera then normal

 

[Evangeline]

Im not against culling if the animal wouldnt survive or would suffer in life but not just because it doesnt reach your recommendations?
Couldn't you sell them to a pet shop or anything? Atleast they would be of better quality of normal mice?

Im not having a go or anything but cant realy understand why people would do that surely a pet shop would be the nicer option? Would you kill a child because it had downs syndrome or crohns disease like I have or even because I wanted a blonde haired child and got a brown haired one?

Please correct me if I have missed something?

 

[Amelia66]

yea but if you sell them to a pet shop and then the pet shop sells them to a snake owner .... surely thats worse. getting chased and eaten by a big snake :/

 

[WillowDragon]

Im not against culling if the animal wouldnt survive or would suffer in life but not just because it doesnt reach your recommendations?
Couldn't you sell them to a pet shop or anything? Atleast they would be of better quality of normal mice?

Im not having a go or anything but cant realy understand why people would do that surely a pet shop would be the nicer option? Would you kill a child because it had downs syndrome or crohns disease like I have or even because I wanted a blonde haired child and got a brown haired one?

Please correct me if I have missed something?

Please do not bring this arguement up in peoples threads, everyone has different opinions on this and are entitled to them, but there is a time and a place.

 

[windyhill]

4 Days:

(took out 2 males)

 

[miss.understood]

cute xx

 

[Jack Garcia]

Right at 4-5 days reminds me of a caterpillar becoming a butterfly. One day, they're pink and bare-skinned and the next they have fur! Hehe...so cute!

 

[windyhill]

Thanks
I love going in the room and seeing them with pink skin and then the next day furred,
I get all excited and my husband thinks Im nuts,lol

 

[Evangeline]

Im not against culling if the animal wouldnt survive or would suffer in life but not just because it doesnt reach your recommendations?
Couldn't you sell them to a pet shop or anything? Atleast they would be of better quality of normal mice?

Im not having a go or anything but cant realy understand why people would do that surely a pet shop would be the nicer option? Would you kill a child because it had downs syndrome or crohns disease like I have or even because I wanted a blonde haired child and got a brown haired one?

Please correct me if I have missed something?

Please do not bring this arguement up in peoples threads, everyone has different opinions on this and are entitled to them, but there is a time and a place.

I wasnt bringing up an arguement im still new to all this culling and stuff although have done it with fish but was just kind of asking why when they are healthy as such, Apart from them setting you back a bit... Like I said I wasnt having a go. Also im sorry I did go bit over the top was having rather a bad day yesterday.

 

[windyhill]

7 Days:

 

[Rhasputin]

I love the little gold one. <3
wonder what she will be. Some sort of overmarked brindle?

 

[windyhill]

Not real sure. She is unmarked though.
I was expecting broken marked, brindles & blacks.
I didnt get brokens though

 

[Rhasputin]

If she grows up, and has a blue or grayish undercoat, she's probably a brindle with no stripes!
If not then I have no idea! My brindles have thrown champagnes, and doves before, so maybe a champagne?

 

[windyhill]

I havnt bred doves, champagnes(no pink eyes yet) ,etc into my brindle lines.
I have several unmarked brindles and several recessive yellows that pop up in these lines, so she could be either one or none of those,lol

 

[windyhill]

8 Days: