Darkly and Painter, both tris, were having a litter a couple of hours ago; I decided to go away and leave them to their blessed event as I thought Darkly might not have finished throwing her litter. It looked like she had four or five at last look.
Thanks, everyone; it does mean a lot to me and now I can reallylook forward to working to get back the quality and types of meeces I had in my mousery. The differences were, for the most part, just those of size and types of markings in the tris/splashed mousies. The fawn, champagne, and argente line is the only line that was very nearly eradicated, and that line will take a half a year at least to see any return of those colors, and maybe longer to get back the size and depth of color, especially in the fawns.
Today I found another ten pinkies from two does that were bred to the same buck, all three parents are tris/splashed. I was also pleased to see a satin tri doe beginning to show; she was bred to a satin BEW from a tri litter, so that should be interesting seeing what those two produce besides more BEW's.
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