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what kind of mouse????

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hello, I was wondering if you guys can tell me what kind of mouse this is? I have never seen one like her (I just have white mice) I got her Saturday, She has long hair and alot of bulk to her. She just feels heavy compared to my others. It is possible she is pregnant because they do not keep m/f separate where I bought her. She is very docile and seems to enjoy being held.
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Looks like a longhaired satin chocolate.

It's just an ordinary Mus musculus with a few recessive genes :)
 
Ssthisto said:
Looks like a longhaired satin chocolate.

It's just an ordinary Mus musculus with a few recessive genes :)

Thanks
do the recessive genes give it the long hair?
 
Yes. Long coats are recessive, as is satin (which makes them shiny) and for that matter chocolate. Bred to a solid black shorthaired non-satin, you'd get solid black shorthaired non-satin babies het for LH, Satin and Chocolate.

This particular mouse, if she's full-grown, is actually not a bad specimen for a longhair - most longhair adult mice just look a bit scruffy rather than being really properly longcoated. That said, I've seen photos of longhair bucks that look like tailed hamsters!

Longhair is a bit of a pain being recessive actually - I'd like to breed it OUT of my colony (my foundation buck was a poor-quality scruffy longhair) but there's no chance, because any given mouse born here is almost certainly het for longhaired. And in the second generation I've had some LH crop up - some of which actually aren't bad, not just scruffies. I might try to breed a few proper longhairs, though that's a long-term project that isn't exactly compatible with 'breeding for snake food'... because I'd have to keep all the babies (of colours I liked) until they'd had a chance to really show what their adult coats were like.
 
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