[zoocrewmice]

Would you call the below Broken, or Variegated? The black/dove sections aren't like perfect sections, they're more like scattered splotches. Just wanted to check. =)

Kimberly

 

[Angelmouse]

The top one looks broken but then some of the black runs into the white :? not so sure now.
The second looks the same mouse so now I would say its Vari :?
The third pic is a broken, well I would say its broken as the colours are very seperate.
The Last is a Vari not a bad one at that
Someone with more experiance than me may be able to shed more light for you but these are my opinions
Nice mice

 

[zoocrewmice]

Okay, thank you! So it just depends on how much the color bleeds into the rest, I suppose.

The first pic is Jerry, son of the mouse in the second pic, Satin. I kept Jerry because of how similar they looked. :lol:

Thanks

 

[Cait]

They're all brokens from those photos, just that some have more brindling in the colour than others. This is a fault in show brokens. Variegated and broken are different genes, broken is recessive and variegated is dominant, so if you have ever bred one to a different variety of mouse (other than broken like those) then that would tell you what they are for definite.

 

[Angelmouse]

Corrected yet again hey hoe live and learn, live and learn

 

[zoocrewmice]

Yikes, so now they are broken brindles? Hehehe, that is confusing.

Is it possible to have variegation/brindling on top of a band? I have two that look like they would be banded, but they have some splotchy markings in the middle of it. I really don't know... because in the first and second picture, the mice have white & black bellies, but there is tan on some of the underbelly edges. Crazy mice. :roll:

 

[SarahC]

they aren't broken brindles.Mousebreeder is using the term brindling to describe white hairs that have cropped up in the coloured patches.

 

[Cait]

Yep, what sarahc said