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Joni Garcia
Gotta love 'em!
:roflmao: What a funny picture. Nice looking Mom and Dad too!
carol
Down with the sickness
What is it that makes him a Mearle? The grey speckled fur like the dogs? Being born male, he was doomed from the start, but I just fell in love with that face! I am currently weaning a new colony of his offspring because his colony is producing so well. Are these Merles too? My husband doesn't like them so much, he calls them the "possum" mice, but you can't argue with performance!
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Joni Garcia
Gotta love 'em!
Hi Carol... Merle mice are a mix of roan colored patches (evenly distributed white and any other color) and solid colored patches. I was taking pictures of Peach's babies last month and discovered one of the little boys was Merle. He's mostly roan with small patches of black on his head and butt, but the underneath side made it clear to me that he's a Merle. I attached a picture of his tummy for you.
As far as the second picture you posted goes... I believe that they would be Broken Merle, which is actually a white mouse with roan and solid dark patches. I'm curious to know what their tummies look like?!
As far as the second picture you posted goes... I believe that they would be Broken Merle, which is actually a white mouse with roan and solid dark patches. I'm curious to know what their tummies look like?!
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Joni Garcia
Gotta love 'em!
:uhoh: Oops... sorry about the crappy picture post, but you can still get the idea. I haven't posted many pictures, and I guess it shows. Maybe I need to figure out what I did wrong and post a practice picture in the Test Area!!!
Repto-Girl
New member
So Cute
Oh they are so cute! I want one. We have two rats right now, don't know what color they are I just got them from the pet store cause someone dropped them off. But anyhow they are so cute!
Oh they are so cute! I want one. We have two rats right now, don't know what color they are I just got them from the pet store cause someone dropped them off. But anyhow they are so cute!
Sasheena
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Ooooh those babies are SO cute, and YEP, merle is roan patches and solid patches, and when there's white, they are broken marked merle.
Oh I wish I had that gene available to me here in AZ *sigh*
TOTALLY cute.
Maybe when my parents fly out here in December they can sneak some aboard!
Oh I wish I had that gene available to me here in AZ *sigh*
TOTALLY cute.
Maybe when my parents fly out here in December they can sneak some aboard!
chausies
New member
cool mice
maybe the fat one is a dominant yellow merle? She looks fat rather than pregnant..... she is really cute though
And merles are awesome mice. I only recently acquired some, and they have quickly become some of my favorite mice. They are robust and beautiful. Right now, I only get them in black and chocolate, but I'd like to get more colors. I have some calico mice too (transgenic mice) that are black, tan, and white marked in random patterns (not just the belly.) Mice are just so cool.
maybe the fat one is a dominant yellow merle? She looks fat rather than pregnant..... she is really cute though
And merles are awesome mice. I only recently acquired some, and they have quickly become some of my favorite mice. They are robust and beautiful. Right now, I only get them in black and chocolate, but I'd like to get more colors. I have some calico mice too (transgenic mice) that are black, tan, and white marked in random patterns (not just the belly.) Mice are just so cool.
Taceas
USW = UB313
Oh Oh Oh...Carol can you please send me some of those adorable mice with my snakes? Good gracious they're cute! And here I am breeding mice for snake food but have to keep the cute ones.
And I'd say the jury is out on "Bertha"...she's got the one sided lump thing going on, which a lot of my 2-3 weeks pregnant mice sometimes develop. I think its about the position of the tube-shaped uterus is different, or simply where the fetuses are developing on the uterus.
Isn't there a gene related to brindle mice that causes obesity no matter how healthy of a diet they eat? I thought I remember someone mentioning it and showing a picture of a rather FAT mouse.
As for smuggling, I don't think they'd ever know the difference between a guinea pig (allowed) and a hamster (not allowed) to be honest, so whats a mouse? They required a vet certificate for our bird to ensure she was healthy to travel...as we're going through security and boarding I ask if they need to see it, and they said "nope, not necessary".
So just put it one of those cute little carriers and tell them its a baby guinea pig or something benign and cover it up so people can't see it and voila. Or there's always the cloth bag around your neck trick. But they catch ya, I've heard there's some stiff penalty thing now that we're protected by the Almighty Patriot Act. *tone of sarcasm*
And I'd say the jury is out on "Bertha"...she's got the one sided lump thing going on, which a lot of my 2-3 weeks pregnant mice sometimes develop. I think its about the position of the tube-shaped uterus is different, or simply where the fetuses are developing on the uterus.
Isn't there a gene related to brindle mice that causes obesity no matter how healthy of a diet they eat? I thought I remember someone mentioning it and showing a picture of a rather FAT mouse.
As for smuggling, I don't think they'd ever know the difference between a guinea pig (allowed) and a hamster (not allowed) to be honest, so whats a mouse? They required a vet certificate for our bird to ensure she was healthy to travel...as we're going through security and boarding I ask if they need to see it, and they said "nope, not necessary".
So just put it one of those cute little carriers and tell them its a baby guinea pig or something benign and cover it up so people can't see it and voila. Or there's always the cloth bag around your neck trick. But they catch ya, I've heard there's some stiff penalty thing now that we're protected by the Almighty Patriot Act. *tone of sarcasm*
Sasheena
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Brindle mice (to varying degrees) have an obesity gene that is really the same gene, it just means that they are obese. They did studies and found that even when a mouse is kept on a very strict diet, the proportion of body fat to other body ingredients remain constant... so if you put them on a diet they lose a certain amount of fat and a proportionate amount of muscle tissue. It's very unhealthy, actually, to keep an obese mouse on a diet. Poor things. I've had some VERY fat mice, but it is variable and the fattest ones don't tend to breed well and the thinner ones breed for longer periods of time, so I haven't had many mice get severely obese in my colonies for a long time, even though I have a lot of yellow mice.
And yes, those mice are great! Just love em!
And yes, those mice are great! Just love em!