[bethmccallister]

Hello, I have an interesting buck that appears to be grey but I think that's actually called Blue? He has dark eyes and comes from a marked agouti mom with a white belly and a siamese male. His litter mates are all unmarked selfs, 2 agouti does, 1 black doe, 2 muddy tan (Fawn?). I need to brush up on my genetics lingo again.

My goal is to simply get marked/broken babies so color is not that important...just want the end results to be stunning of course I know all these babies are Rr or carriers of the broken gene (broken being recessive) so my next move is to breed one of these bucks back to the mom for a 50 % chance of broken babies...I can't keep more then a few bucks however much I want to. The siamese is getting ready to retire, I've breed him to his black self daughter (trying to improve black marks) and they should be having a litter in a few weeks so that's his last one.

I want to keep the grey one, but the fawn/other one would do nice for my brindles or yellow recessives perhaps....any suggestions?

 

[JustMouse]

I would keep the grey one. If the other is brindle, that is dominant and not so useful for breeding, and if that one picture is the brindle, he's not the best :/ but they're all cute!

 

[bethmccallister]

Oh thank you! The buck I was asking about is not the brindle I was referring to. I have a meet up to receive a pair of brindle show mice soon. Just mentioned it because the fawn self could be used to improve the colors in my brindle but I think I can use one of my older fawn does instead for that. I'm starting from pet store stock and trying to find my breeding line. So far I keep getting surprises and then change my direction... :roll: