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One colony or two?

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Colleen360

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In the two years that I have worked at the pet store, I have not seen even one longhaired mouse come through. I always look for cute ones to add to my colonies and carefully look for long haired mice. I asked the breeder where we get our mice from if she had any and she said most of hers had bred out to short hair. Well, she must have had two more. I found them! A brindle and a gold. Neither has super long hair, but much longer than a regular mouse. I plan to try to breed for longer hair, but here is one question. Would it be better to place them in the same colony, or should I place them in separate to diversify the bloodlines. I'm leaning more towards placing them in separate ones, but I'm not sure.
 
They are both females, which made me even more excited! I'm not sure if it is dominant or recessive. I guess I'm off to do some more research!
 
If I read correctly you got all your mice from the one breeder. Placing them in seperate colonies isnt going to diversify the bloodlines, only bringing in new blood (from a totally seperate breeder) is going to do that. Id put them together so that you know which ones not to pull pinks from.

Bryan
 
Long hair is recessive.

You can usually identify a longhair by the time it starts developing fur - larger fuzzies and hoppers.
 
Since its recessive you'll want to raise the longhairs offspring and interbreed them or breed them back to the mothers to get more longhairs.
 
Flagg said:
Since its recessive you'll want to raise the longhairs offspring and interbreed them or breed them back to the mothers to get more longhairs.
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That was the plan. I put them together in the same colony with my chocolate male.
 
Good luck with the longhairs. My own colonies turned out to be wildly colored and now I've found brindles, makes it hard to cull them with so many keepers. And of course the coolest looking ones are always male. =(
 
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