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#1 ·
I had 2 broken marked mice out of a BEW Buck and broken marked black doe that looks like the picture below. I am delighted! Initially I was hoping they will be broken marked Choco but they had red eyes so I thought they are broken marked argenta tho the Colour is darker. I will have to post their actual pictures later. But how is this possible? What would breeding back to the father buck give? Unfortunately, I have cull the bucks in this litter as I didn't think I needed more bucks. It would have to wait for next litter to keep new bucks. If so, what Colour bucks should I potentially keep to keep having champagne or cinnamon or even chocolate?

Also, the other babies I had from the other 2 agouti bucks and various agrente and agouti does have only given just argenta and agouti. Does this mean I would continue to only have these 2 Colours from these pairings? I can't tell Argente with Dove. How do one clearly see the difference? Would there be chance of other Colours if I put the BEW or his offsprings w the agouti/argenta offsprings?

Thanks.

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#2 ·
Champagne would just mean that both the doe and buck carry chocolate and pink eye. Since you are getting argente a lot then carrying pink eye is not surprising, carrying chocolate would be a bonus (assuming they are champagne, its hard to tell what they could be because bew can be from c-dilutes, but in this case is also likely to be from undermarked broken that is just completely white)
 
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I find this place the absolute best, its not 100% correct in all varieties but close enough mostly

http://www.hiiret.fi/eng/breeding/?pg=4&sub=13

C-dilutes dilute black down, to beige, or siamese, or albino for example. BEW is usually very pale ce/c. All c-dilutes are genetically black eyed though (unless a rare case of genetic cross as occured) however anything ch/ch is ruby eyed in appearance, ch/c pink to ruby, c/c pink.

An argente mouse will never be carrying a c-dilute because of the linkage, I guess you can think of pink eyed as C-p, so if you have C-p/C-p to get a genetically pink eyed mouse like argente you cannot have any c-dilutes on that locus.
 
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