Its a sepia fox - one of the brown series plus tan plus chinchilation. Probably too much information, a better description would be to say its a chocolate with a white belly. The bleaching gene that dilutes tan onthe belly to white also degardes the chocolate top colour, so the choc always appears a bit lighter than a good rich chocolate .
What would you call this color?
I started a new line recently. My only goal was to get some really nice type mice that are marked/broken. Since I only have this one doe to start with and at the time one Siamese or Himi (verdic is still out on that one) buck that is breeding age I put them together to "see what I get". I need to choose a buck from this little to breed back to the mom and then I should see some marked/broken babs.
Here is the mom, Moo. No idea on the genecode so please feel free to comment. I'm saying she is a broken white/black but the black could be a really dark blue. She has a white spot free tummy. Do the white hairs in the colored spots look like roan?
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I have 6 babies in all, 3 weeks old at the moment, and generally they all look the same except for 2 black/tan ones with tiny little white head spots.
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Here is the mystery color...
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Here is the mom, Moo. No idea on the genecode so please feel free to comment. I'm saying she is a broken white/black but the black could be a really dark blue. She has a white spot free tummy. Do the white hairs in the colored spots look like roan?
I have 6 babies in all, 3 weeks old at the moment, and generally they all look the same except for 2 black/tan ones with tiny little white head spots.
Here is the mystery color...
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Why thank you for the wonderful compliment and also for the help in color id. I will pull out my gene codes and see if I can match up the codes to the color combination you described. Again, thank you so much...I'm beeming 
at/* cch/c or at/* cch/ce or at/* ce/c could all produce this color, as could a light at/* ce/ce (but that seems less likely). If the mouse develops points, you know one of the C-alleles must be ch. If she never does, you can be reasonably sure one of them is not ch.
FWIW, I have mice who are a/a cch/c and are nearly identical in color (the byproducts of other matings), only minus the white belly. Jenny calls them "mud." Heterozygosity on the C-locus can do strange things and produce a whole range of colors from nearly black to nearly white.
Btw, if the wild type allele is showing and you don't know if he or she carries something (as in the case of B/*, D/*, E/*, and P/*), you can leave it off if you want to. Otherwise, you'd have a genecode 20+ alleles long for every mouse.
FWIW, I have mice who are a/a cch/c and are nearly identical in color (the byproducts of other matings), only minus the white belly. Jenny calls them "mud." Heterozygosity on the C-locus can do strange things and produce a whole range of colors from nearly black to nearly white.
The mother is a black marked mouse, not blue and not roan (and also not broken, since broken describes a specific show pattern), just a very poor example of a marked mouse (the hairs should not intermingle and should be more numerous and better arranged). She's very cute, though, and you can tell she is well-taken care of! Her gene code would be a/a s/s, and on the C-locus she is probably either C/cch, or C/ce.bethmccallister said:
Btw, if the wild type allele is showing and you don't know if he or she carries something (as in the case of B/*, D/*, E/*, and P/*), you can leave it off if you want to. Otherwise, you'd have a genecode 20+ alleles long for every mouse.
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