my clan

Hi Mike nice to see someone else from manchester!

I'll have to come have a look at your clan in the flesh;

2 looks like a blue and 4 looks like a chocolate to me , but i'm not the best with colours yet!

drop me a PM , its good to have other breeders so close!

mmmmmm not sure on that one, have to wait for others to have a look.

Looks like blue to me.

That's a sweet family you have there! I think mousies no's 3 & 5 are especially sweet

hey that looks to be her sister
i think she has to one of my favourite

love the pics of the 3rd and 5th very cute looking and the rat babies are beautiful

Yeah, she's blue. They can be patchy and mealy like yours and Rhasputin's, which gives the appearance of being ticked. I've known a couple people who thought blues were chinchillas at first. Chinchilla looks like this:

http://www.hiiret.fi/eng/breeding/varie ... hilla.html

Mine isn't nearly as patchy as the picture shows. :lol:
She's also a rex, so it makes the light reflect strangely off of her fur.

Yeah. She's very cute. I find that with blue, curly coats emphasize the patchiness (even when it's not there much) due to the way pigment is distributed (unevenly, blues actually have more pigment than blacks) and then bent. It's much less noticable an effect than curly coats have on ticked varieties, though. In theory, a good blue could be curly-coated and you wouldn't be able to see any of the patchiness. The self-colored mice make the best examples of all types of curly coats. Blue is just the "least best," I think. Very adorable meece, though.

I think blues look good in a thick fuzzy coat though. :lol:

I agree, her colour is not complimented by her coat style. I have a different line of blues started, that have curls, but the end result is a very nice looking blue. It's VERY blue-blue, instead of gray blue. Very interesting effect that their specific curls create. I'll take some pictures of them once I borrow my mom's camera again. :roll:

The line she's in (the blue mouse I posted) is actually going to be blacks, PEW, broken blacks, but the colour is not very important since they are being bred for short-haired (almost naked) fuzzies. :lol:

Nice dumbo rattie you've got there.

Thanks my dumbo rat lives with anothe doe who 2 days later had her litter they make me laugh they keep swapping babies with each other its pretty funny watching them they all growing nice and well so not to bothered about seperating them
Mike

Thanks my dumbo rat lives with anothe doe who 2 days later had her litter they make me laugh they keep swapping babies with each other its pretty funny watching them they all growing nice and well so not to bothered about seperating them
Mike