Broken marked mice??

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Tinkers Mousery

Discussion Starter · Feb 25, 2011

Hi there, just needing some advice on my mice. I am pretty sure that the mice i have are all broken marked but just wanted to comfirm this. the colours i have are:-

Black & white
Dark Brown & white
Light brown / chocolate & white
A light brown & white ( sandy colour / orangie)
silver / very light grey & white ( one of these also has red eyes)

they are all petterned differently, with no particular markings ect.

Just wanted some advice really as im new to this.

I can put pics up on request

Thanks

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SarahY

· #2 · Feb 25, 2011

Broken is a show standard marking that has a coloured spot on the side of the nose and other, randomly placed coloured spots over a white body, so your mice would be referred to as piebald

Sarah xxx

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Tinkers Mousery

Discussion Starter · #3 · Feb 25, 2011

ok so even tho my mice are different colours are they all refered to as piebald??

Amy xx

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SarahY

· #4 · Feb 25, 2011

Yeah, in most animals it means coloured and white. You'd call them black piebald, champagne piebald, etc.

Sarah xxx

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Tinkers Mousery

Discussion Starter · #5 · Feb 25, 2011

ahhh ok thankyou so much. this is very helpfull. are there any classes for piebald mice at shows??

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SarahY

· #6 · Feb 25, 2011

No because it's an unstandardised marking. You can see all of the standardised varieties on the NMC website at http://www.thenationalmouseclub.co.uk - the ones listed on the varieties standards pages are the ones you can show. The website is down for maintainance, but should be back up by tomorrow morning.

Sarah xxx

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Tinkers Mousery

Discussion Starter · #7 · Feb 25, 2011

ok thankyou.

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