Fancy Mice *Pic Heavy*

[kswaterfowl]

We raise Syrian hamsters and they come in some very similar colors. We currently have four breeding females and two breeding males, but we have cinnamon, black, golden, black eared/eyed cream, and know if I wait for the cream to grow up I can get some sables from him. We are expecting a litter on the 8th from an Umbrose Gold banded male x rex golden banded female. Should be interesting to see what happens. We have both selfs and bandeds now, as well as one that carries the dominant spot but she herself is only banded.

 

[watchdogps]

Very cool. I raised fancy mice in high school and had lots of the ones you showed. I never saw merle though. Love it, ups me one, please!
Where did you get the term "unmarked brindle" though? That doesn't make sewnse, since brindle is a pattern, not a color.

 

[9Catsz]

Nice mice colors....I've been raising mice for about 10 years now. I've been selectively breeding my favorite colors/patterns and have these to show for it.

Note: These colors are names I've made up...so if there's an "official" name for any of these colors, please let me know.

Black oreo adult

Black oreo hoppers

Black oreo fuzzy

The oreo pattern breeds true (with white in the center) and it also works on light brown, but I didn't have pics of those. I've been working on breeding the oreo pattern into other colors.

Oreo Calico Adult

The tri-colored ones, the calicos, are my favorites right now.
Calico

Love this color, whatever it is.

And I love the black and white spotted ones

 

[NewHopePoultry]

Unmarked brindles are brindles without the markings. They still produce brindles


The "oreo" ones are banded
The "calilco" ones are brindles with white
The one you like is a black vari (looks to have a tan belly, if so, its a black tan vari)
Very pretty

Banded and brindles both breed true

I prefer rats to mice as pets, but I love all the colors & markings mice come in

 

[watchdogps]

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Ok, but brindle IS the marking, so if it is not marked, it is a self colored. Unmarked brindle is like saying a self black is an unmarked broken. Thast why I am asking is that what you are calling it, or is that a term used by one of the fancy mouse associations?

 

[NewHopePoultry]

There is no set name for an unmarked brindle other then unmarked brindle. (they dont fit the standards to be called fawn, yellow, etc)
I only use names accepted/used by the mouse associations Im in.

 

[ChickenfootDuckbutt]

"Self" refers to solid colors, for example if the brindles in above pics had NO white, they would be Brindle selfs, same with the black, if the blacks had NO white, they are black selfs, you see.

My mouse colors and patterns are a bit rusty but I believe most of the brindles pictured are pied and not broken, broken is a set pattern, pied is not., I haven't owned any in several years, I used to breed. I plan on getting back into breeding show type mice sometime next year.

 

[NewHopePoultry]

Most US based clubs use the terms broken & even for marked mice. UK based clubs use piebald
It all really just depends on the standards you go by and use

I didnt post pictures of any of my show/English type mice, only American/pet types

 

[watchdogps]

Ok, just wondering. It just doesn't make sense to call something an unmarked when it refers to the markings. Id think they would come up with a color for it. What about blue brindles? Are solid blues that came out of a blue brindle called unmarked blue brindles or just blue? Btw, I'm really not trying to be argumentative, I'm trying to understand.

Id love to get back into rats and mice, but hubby would have a fit. They are definately an expense that does not pay for itself. We have a dumbo blue hairless rat at the grooming shop I am assisting at. We named him Phil, after the owner. He's bald, wrinkly and what little hair he has is grey, lol! Luckily human Phil has a good sense of humor

 

[9Catsz]

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I have hundreds of breeder mice and mine aren't generally used as pets....ifyouknowhatImean.....

Thanks for the color clarification, but I gotta question why the calicos are called "brindle with white", when they obviously don't have a brindle pattern at all and are simply tri-colored, i.e. calico? I have brindles too and they're sort of light brown with black stripes, a brindle pattern, just like the brindle pattern in many dog breeds.