reptilegirl07 i take it with you talking colors of mice your breeding them to sell as pets (way more profit to sell as pets then feeders average feeder cost 2 bucks versus cheapest pet mouse 6.99 so 3 and a half times more costly.) and thats for a plain Jane mouse seen them in Kalamazoo MI petco had feeders 2 bucks looked just like petsmarts pet mice(wouldn't sell me any cause i asked them if they would give me discount cause was going to breed them for snake food) but the petsmart mice were 6.99 for mice that had all the same colors and markings as petco's feeder mice

or are you just trying to make a large gene pool to work with. i know when ever i go long ways from home. i go check pet shops along the way to get unrelated mice to add diversity to mines gene pool. usually males is what i get unless i get some neat looking males. like recently i got a few tiger striped so saving those to breed and see if i can't get a bunch of nothing but tiger striped. or got some solid orange albino's that just look neat as can be