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Yay brindles!

ghosthousecorns

ghosthousecorns

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Breeding feeder mice is almost as much fun as breeding corns! They are more work but you get to see what the next generation looks like a lot faster :)
In order to add some new blood to my colonies I picked up a cool brindle male at petsmart (first pic) and I finally got some little brindle meeses from him! These little ones get to escape being snake food...
 

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Oh how cute! I've been sticking with my PEW mice for a while, but I think I may have to see if I can get a nice buck to start a colourful trio in the Spring!
 
How precious! I love the dark one, too. If I could find a rat in these colors, I'd be all over it like white on rice.
 
Just be careful the brindle mice can get FAT! I had a male get 39 grams before I retired him (at only 9 months old mind you).
 
Awww... what cuties!


carnivorouszoo said:
Just be careful the brindle mice can get FAT! I had a male get 39 grams before I retired him (at only 9 months old mind you).
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I was actually thinking about this. I had a female brindle mouse a few years ago that was terribly obese nomatter what I did, and her cagemate was always fine and fit. I read once somewhere (can't find it now, so I don't know how legit it is) that brindle or "ginger" mice seemed to linked to a condition similar to Zucker's in rats. It doesn't happen to all of them, just seems to be the most common with that particular color. :shrugs:

Long story short, I just found it interesting that somebody else knew of this phenomenon. :)
 
maxfox426 said:
Awww... what cuties!




I was actually thinking about this. I had a female brindle mouse a few years ago that was terribly obese nomatter what I did, and her cagemate was always fine and fit. I read once somewhere (can't find it now, so I don't know how legit it is) that brindle or "ginger" mice seemed to linked to a condition similar to Zucker's in rats. It doesn't happen to all of them, just seems to be the most common with that particular color. :shrugs:

Long story short, I just found it interesting that somebody else knew of this phenomenon. :)
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http://www.afrma.org/brindlemice.htm
Yep, you're right. The brindle in mice is linked to a gene that can cause obesity.
 
I knew some fancier breeders that were doing trials for a special diet for brindles. I wish I had kept up on that so I could share it. Last I had heard (2 years ago) one was having some really good progress, also did not see any tumors from the line and its original female had died of some bad tumors. I'll try to find the info but no promises ok? I have been out of the mouse fancy for a while.
 
Thanks for the above link J9, interesting how those mouse breeders consider the sooty colored ones less desirable but to me they are the most cool looking.
Yeah I had noticed the male pctured above was kind of pudgy when I got him, he has lost a bit of weight on a diet of mostly mazuri lab blocks. Maybe I should try them too LOL
 
I'm sure any of us would be thinner if all we ate was monkey lab blocks. Which I ~think~ Mazuri makes! :rofl: I'd be bored to death, too.
 
I have a lot of fancy mice and I finally got a calico using a brindle doe and a gentic mut of a buck. I will have to take a few pics. But something about brindles just makes me smile. They are cute....
 
I had an oddball once, was mostly white with a black ear, the rump was blue and had an orange patch on its back, saddly only lived 5 months. That would have been interesting to keep going but I think there was something wrong with the poor thing.
 
ghost house sorry to hijack your thread but I thought I'd post my brindle calico, and a few other project meeses.....
Regular brindle, next to a cage buddy
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cage buddy, with water from the water bottle on him
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Brindle Calico
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Here is another.. smaller
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here is another funky mouse I have no clue what to call it.
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large colony aka "pretty colony"
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