the long haired thread

I love the look of angora on white. Very nice mice! Here are a few of my petstore angoras and longhairs.

Here is Gilbert my especially long, dense coated boy, bred of two hets. He's lilac tan but the tan lightened too much...
baby pics-


older Gilbert!

I have this girlie, its hard to see her long hairs, she's pregnant at the moment so Im hoping more long haired on the way, I have a pew doe aswell like the top picture and a black buck, I will upload pictures of them aswell today

It's several months on and after a recent discussion with squishy at a show I thought I'd update.Having bred quite a few litters of long haired I became quite disillusioned.The mice generally were small,poor eye and ear and just not good specimans.I had decided to give up but no sooner than the decision was made than a nice buck popped out,a reasonable all round good sort.That one mouse made me reconsider.No good having long hair on an inferior animal and in particular I don't like the terrible unders that long haired adults have.I think those shocking unders are the result of not selecting for this trait assuming that the fur will hide all.Why put up with it on long hairs?So I've sacrificed the hair length to create a good foundation stock and I am finally happy with them.They are not large but bigger than dutch,decent colour/ear/eye and good unders,slightly cobby.I look at them and think that if I can get the fur back on this frame then there could be some show potential.
Cream buck,all the mice are the same 'stamp' and cream or white


I've also got a very nice pew doe who retained good fur as an adult.This mouse failed to conceive with numerous bucks and I'd given up,now when she's getting on a bit she's suddenly produced a litter of 2 and she's doing a good job of rearing them,hopefully they will provide the future long coats.

The longhaired varieties are hard, much harder than my others. That cobby body type is the hardest thing to breed out, it's getting better but not by much, and of course if they have a nice long dense coat they look shorter and more compact than they really are.
Some current angora babies, these are all 3-4 week olds.

My male long haired has been deemed useless due to being with my females for around 4 months with no action, so i got hold of a new male and my girls have finally been put to use!

So here is 4 of my current 6 litters from LH pairings! i will update at around weaning time when they're hairy-ness begins to show

Well this is the doe i've decided on from the above pic, now to pick out a buck