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| what colors are your gerbils? |
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Charlie1
Joined: 30 Nov 2006
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I don't have a gerbil but 4 hamsters. 2 males- Charlie ( mine), Spunky, ( friend's)
2 females- Midnight( sister's) Daisy ( other sister's) |
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Million_Dollar_Smile
Joined: 05 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Yea i don't have a gerbil but i have a hamster Daisy then 3 more other hamsters which is my sisters and moms |
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Kesquivalerian
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:30 am Post subject: |
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| lil_Princess_1026 wrote: | | ok haha... what all do you breed? |
I have three mouse colonies (soon to be four).
Colony 1 (my first colony) has a chocolate tan buck who carries pink eyed and satin ("Reese"). His girls are:
Reprieve (Chocolate tan doe, carries pink eyed and satin)
Minibad (Argente or Argente Gold doe, carries pink eyed and satin)
Blitz (Black tan doe, carries pink eyed)
"That Dove Tan" (Dove tan doe, carries satin and chocolate)
I get lots of black tans, chocolate tans, champagne tans and dove tans out of this group, with the occasional agouti and satin thrown in.
Colony 2, which grew out of Colony 1 when one of my does decided she didn't like another one, has a black "berkshire" buck with markings just like my cat's - white blaze, white belly, white feet and a 'flour spot' on the back of his neck ("Jonesymouse") - he carries chocolate, blue, pink eyed and satin. His girls are:
Fluke (Self chocolate doe, carries pink eyed) - this is the girl someone didn't like.
Silver (Self silver doe, heavily 'heathered' - she almost looks agouti)
Steel (Self blue doe, heavily heathered - she also looks agouti)
Shiny (Satin dove tan doe, carries chocolate and blue)
Splotch (Dove tan doe, with a head marking and a belly spot, carries blue)
The focus of this one is mostly going to be producing more Jonesymice in tan and self variations - chocolate, blue, silver, champagne, lilac and lavender. I have a nice chocolate tan berkshire with a thin 'belt', a gorgeous blue berkshire girl growing on, and a nice satin self blue.
Colony 3 is my Agouti colony. The male here is an agouti tan - and I think he's disproving that "Agouti" and "Tan" are on the same gene pair - named Cinny. He carries chocolate and pink eyed. His girls are:
Fly (Black and white marked doe, carries pink eyed)
Solid (Self black doe with no markings except one set of white toes)
Ringtail (Black tan doe with a 'ring' of white at the tailtip)
Fuzzy (Longhaired chocolate tan doe)
Champ (Champagne tan doe)
So far I don't know quite what I've got other than one self chocolate baby (unless it's actually an agouti) - a few black tans and a self dove-looking one, which should also be either an agouti or a tan based on the genetics, but doesn't look like either one.
Our last colony will be made up of Pockets, a satin black tan male, and a few satin-based girls from the other colony cages, so that I can have one breeding group that does nothing but satins. It'd be nice to have fancy mice I can sell on to local pet shops in exchange for frozen food for the snakes in the case of snakes who eat much bigger-than-mouse food.
I also breed leopard geckos (I've got four males in residence and twelve females), a pregnant Kenyan sand boa (plus two males) and I plan to breed corn snakes and Colombian rainbow boas when my babies are old enough - probably 2009. |
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lil_Princess_1026
Joined: 02 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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your mice sound really pretty =0) haha
whats a self blue? |
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Kesquivalerian
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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| lil_Princess_1026 wrote: | your mice sound really pretty =0) haha
whats a self blue? |
Self blue is the 'correct' way to say that you have a mouse who is solid blue-grey all over, without any patterns or markings like the tan bellies or the white spotting. |
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lil_Princess_1026
Joined: 02 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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| ohh ok lol ... i wasnt sure |
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Katilicious
Joined: 28 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| lil_Princess_1026 wrote: | | ok haha... what all do you breed? |
tropical fish |
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Oriyana
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:11 am Post subject: |
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"That Dove Tan" (Dove tan doe, carries satin and chocolate)
black "berkshire"- he carries chocolate, blue, pink eyed and satin. |
mice can't "carry" chocolate or blue, those are combination colors.
a Dove Tan is automatically atatpp <-- those t's should be raised like the "squared" or "cubed" numbers but I can't figure out how to do that here 
since chocolate is aabb that means your Dove Tan girl is atatppBb (she would also be Sasa for carrying satin) Which means she's Dove Tan carrying cinnamon and satin
The male would be aaDdBbSasa Black carrying opal, cinnamon and satin. I'm at a loss to find an actual "berkshire" pattern like in rats, and none of the other mouse patterns really seem to fit that decription. As for the carrying pink eyed I'm assuming that's the argente gene which means he'd also have Pp. With the right pairings he could produce a lot of colors
I never really looked that deep into mouse genes until now and it kind of leaves me going  It would take a lot of reading up on and getting used to.
I breed dwarf hamsters and a lot of the genes are close between the two species. I find the genetics fasinating hehe. Mice genetics are just a bit more complicated which is why they have more patterns and colors. |
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Mystie
Joined: 28 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:35 am Post subject: |
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| Woah! wickedrodent your animals have their own castle! |
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LHUhannah
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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I have two gerbils, one black and one gray. They are both males, from different litters, but they get along wonderfully.
I'll have to take some pictures and post them... |
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LHUhannah
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Kesquivalerian wrote: | | a pregnant Kenyan sand boa (plus two males) and I plan to breed corn snakes and Colombian rainbow boas when my babies are old enough - probably 2009. |
My roommate and I also have a Kenyan sand boa. We've only had him for 4 months, but he's grown so much. |
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