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Pics of my Feeder Family

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In my other topic here, titled "So I took the Plunge", I described the manner in which my daughter suckered me into getting her some more pets. Admittedly, they are cute.

So here are a couple of pics of my new breeder colony starter project. Hope you enjoy the cute little buggers. I sure do...
 

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Nice! Looks like you'll be able to play around with their genes a little too. I love the brindle mouse. He/she is very cute.
 
Looks like you've got a nice sable male, a very nice agouti marked girl and a cute little black or blue marked girl.

You can expect to get about half 'red' babies (black eyed yellow) and about half something-with-tan-bellies babies out of that trio :)
 
If you keep any as breeders just be careful not to cross 2 fawns together due to the lethal homozygous yellow gene.

I've currently got all sorts of colors, coat types and markings on my mice, but I'm thinking of switching over to albinos. With the colored mice I end up with too many colonies all the time, too many cool colors and markings that I want to keep and use as breeders. With plain old pink eyed whites there won't be any temptation to keep too many of them.
 
Flagg said:
If you keep any as breeders just be careful not to cross 2 fawns together due to the lethal homozygous yellow gene.
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What's the deal with that? The plan was to keep 1 or 2 female offspring from the pairings I get from this group to complete the breeder colony. Is that a bad idea?
 
No that's fine, just try not to keep any fawn, red or yellow females to breed with the fawn male.

The dominant yellow gene that causes the reddish.orange/yellow color is lethal when homozygous. Meaning 2 copies of that yellow gene in the embryo. Those embryos are not viable and are usually reabsorbed by the female. Result is 1/4 smaller litters.

Nothing to worry about if you can avoid keeping a yellow female.

Nice male pick there, both brindle and fawn are dominant so you will have some colorful litters.
 
So I just need to make sure that all fawn colored offspring are promptly euthanized and used as food, or sperated out to breed with a differently colored male, correct?
 
Oh, and, FWIW...that little male is so docile, it's not even funny. I put my hand in the aquarium, and the 2 females will both bolt away from me, but "my little buddy" crawls right onto my hand and starts "talking" to me. Cute as all get out...
 
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