[nanette37]

here they are!

males:

blueberry

mango/honey

females:

cocoa bean (pregnant with blueberry)

marble (pregnant with blueberry)

baby (renamed. used to be razzberry but my mom kept calling her baby and it stuck!)

kiwi

peanut

zigzag

umber

iris (she has 2 white spots on her tail so doesnt that mean she carries a broken gene?)

 

[nanette37]

do you think she might be variegated? i remember seeing an example of one with that looked kinda like her. and is she blue? and zigzag? i wasnt sure if they were blue or "poor" chocolate :lol:

 

[nanette37]

i will! hopefully there will be some babies in the next 2 weeks!

 

[nanette37]

ya i have notice the slight band and line down the spine. i didnt know what it was though until you said something haha. and i dont have a male that im certain doesnt carry recessive white spotting. mango might not carry it but i dont know because i dont know his parents or anything. maybe when i breed mango with peanu, kiwi, or baby, i can use one of the sons to breed with marble. and ya zigzag does look black on the screen but she is actually lighter and more grey colored in person (so is marble) so thats why i think she is blue. what happens when you breed blue to chocolate?

 

[nanette37]

me either! i saw them mating on thursday so i should have babies in 3 weeks!

 

[nanette37]

In general breeding blue to chocolate will produce all black babies who carry both blue and chocolate, unless they share recessives. A mouse who is both blue and chocolate (a/a d/d b/b) is termed lilac. It's a difficult color to get right and can resemble chocolate or blue. The trick is getting it somewhere inbetween.

well i'd love to have both of those colors so thats good to hear! thanks! black is my favorite color for mice. not the black i have though cuz she isnt "truly" black. i'd love to have some of those black selfs that are so beautiful

 

[nanette37]

haha! man how do people get their black mice to be like that? what do you have to breed to what?

 

[nanette37]

im not really sure what umbrous is. does anyone have like a link they could post so i can read about it? thanks. and how would you introduce the extreme gene? like i know what it is but i also dont haha

 

[nanette37]

wow that is very helpful, thank you! . so if everything on the a-locus is dominant to ae, how will you be able to find out if your mouse carries it or not?