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baby pics, lil' genetic puzzle and waggling mommy-to-be

SnakeAround

Formerly Blutengel
First some pics of 2 litters born in the same night (16 all together). They have been together in one nest since that night. Only today 1 mommy separated some of the others into another nest but I guess she has her reasons...

Besides showing you them cuties, I have some questions for the mouse genetic's experts; these litters are from a tan/black/white pied mommy x black male with white belly and a wildcolor mommy x white/grey pied male. As you can see, they threw
black/white pieds (maybe with some tan, but that would be on the belly's moslty and I didn't look for it yet),
- wild colored
-wild/white pieds,
-grey/wild/white pieds,
-black/white pieds
-2 black ones with white bellies
-1 grey/white pied.

First Q; I was not really sure about the partner of the pied mommy (could have been the grey/white pied too), but since there are 2 black ones with white bellies I assume the father was a black/white belly one?

Second Q; can I assume all the baby's showing wild color are baby's of the wild color mommy? So all the others are baby's of the pied mommy? That would be a bit strange 'cause then the pied mommy would have thrown only about 5 of the 16 baby's; the last 3 colors mentioned. Maybe someone can put all 6 colors of baby's in a row beneath their suspected parents (copy/paste)? That way I know which are whos so I can registrate their amount of baby's and if I want to keep some, I know which male I can breed them too to prevent inbreeding.

Tnx in advance!
 

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By the way, the wild color mommy above is the one that threw 5 out of 8 dead baby's inher first litter and the ones that made it looked retarded and 2 of them died later on, I posted about it I'm so happy she is having some very healthy looking critters now!

This mommy-to-be is way big!!! I've only seen 5 pregnant mice, they threw 5,8, and 9 baby's for me, but I think this one is going to throw me some more, don't you? And I think it is her first litter, 'cause I bought her at 8 weeks old at the pet shop.
 

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I'm by no means an expert. But from my mice and having a half breed wildcaught mouse. I'd say with babies with the Wild colors are of that wild color mother. But it could also be a total possibility that the other mother has that color in her but as a recessive trait.
 
Lol To me she looks like shes going to pop any day soon lol. Pray to the gods she produces lots. lol.
 
I no nothing about mouse genetics, but the babies are very cute. That mama sure is big.
 
The big lady gave birth some days ago, but to be honest; I only wanted to bump this one to get someone to solve the puzzle for me..... I would really appreciate it, so I can keep records of which baby's are whose... Some ones must love puzzling with mice genetics? tnx in advance!
 
Well I have a 1.3 and my females are always within a few days of each other. I have a white and wild brown, a black and a wild brown one. and my males a white and black. So i keep a close eye on them close to due dates. Plus with my snake being on peach fuzzies now, I can usually tell what babies belong to who.
 
I think there were only 8 or maybe 9, the total of the 2 litters together was 17 and the first mommy threw 8 or 9. So I don't know why she was that big....
 
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