I love adding new and interesting mice to the colony to see what will pop out! I've thrown in so much weird stuff that's it's hard to tell any more what genes my mice carry. lol

Right now I've got two moms on litters that are mainly silver and white or orange and white patched babies with either black or red eyes. I've got some brindles, different color splotched, and selfs. I was at the pet store a couple weeks ago and they had quite a few colored fancies and I was tempted to get a black and tan male they had but passed because we had somewhere else to stop off. Wouldn't ya know it, he was gone this last weekend when I went back specifically for him.

I'm doing the same with the rats, selecting holdbacks and refining colors and patterns. And then adding new blood every now and then. I'm getting a lot of dumbo babies now, and it's so hard not to keep them just as pets.

here's a pile of mouse babies from a few months ago.