Some fun rodents

[Rhasputin]

Just for fun here's some pictures of stuff going on in my mouse room.

Some shots of my deer mice being curious.





A fun litter for hairless, unfortunately only ending up with one hairless.


My favorite from that litter, white with black splashes, and ruby eyes.
Very glas she didn't end up hairless.


Here's the hairless boy, still losing his fur.





This one doesn't look that impressive, but it's a very rare gene, becoming less rare since it was recently imported dominant red aka Ay.



Here's as far as I know, the only Satin Spiny mouse in the U.S. <3


Here he is next to one of his girlfriends. You can hardly tell the difference on camera. :/


And here is my most ancient ASF ever. She's just past 4 years old, and still kicking. Other than her eyes, there's no other signs of how old she is!

[artgecko]

Neat looking little guys! I didn't know ASF's came in that color... have only ever seen pics of the dark greyish-agouti / white ones.
The dominant red one looks good too. I saw a golden (I think) male at a petstore and liked the color so much it almost made me buy him.

[ROACH]

"Here's as far as I know, the only Satin Spiny mouse in the U.S."

Theres several breeders that I found on the net in the US. I dont know anything about mice other that my snakes love them, but these look cute.

[Rhasputin]

"Here's as far as I know, the only Satin Spiny mouse in the U.S."

Theres several breeders that I found on the net in the US. I dont know anything about mice other that my snakes love them, but these look cute.

There are many people with spiny mice, but I don't know of any others with satin. If you know of more I'd love to be put in contact with them.

[Rhasputin]

Neat looking little guys! I didn't know ASF's came in that color... have only ever seen pics of the dark greyish-agouti / white ones.
The dominant red one looks good too. I saw a golden (I think) male at a petstore and liked the color so much it almost made me buy him.

Thank you! The 'golden' one you saw was likely a recessive red, that's the common red/yellow gene we have in the US.
ASFS come in tons of colours actually! I used to have at least a breeding pair of each colour and pattern.

I might post a list of colours and photos on the forum, I used to have a site dedicated to ASF genetics and information.

[Mr Oni]

more!!!

I love looking at rodents...that arent frozen....or about to be food in 5 min.


How do you get deer mice? Never heard of them.

*edit. So these are like "farm" mice? I get these bad boys in my walls in the winter.

[artgecko]

Rhasputin- That would be awesome! I love looking at color and pattern varieties. I guess the majority of "feeder" asf's are that one color / pattern with the others not being as common? I say that because the only pics i've seen on this forum of them are the greyish-agouti / white (possum looking guys).

My aunt shows shih-tzus and told me that the reason you see so many of the "golden / white" ones is that one breeder made them very popular in the 70's / 80's... so now you hardly ever see the other colors, like solids / black and white, etc. Maybe that color strain of ASF's is just more available like that color of shih-tzus.

I also saw what I think was a black / tan mouse the other day... I really like that color pattern. Not sure how common they are though.

[Rhasputin]

Black tans are pretty common, I have one male here.
They also come in blue tan, with blue/gray on top, and a tan belly. There's also dove tan, light gray with pink eyes and a tan belly. And honestly a ton more but those are the most common.

Ay (dominant red) is rare because it was not developed in the US, so it had to be imported, and It's a dominant gene, which means once it's gone it's gone. Recessives can hide in mice for generations, but if you don't have a mouse that -looks- Ay, then you have no more Ay genes left.

I'll post up a list of ASF colours in just a bit.

[Rhasputin]

Here's a photo I had sitting around, for you Artgecko.



And I posted the list of colours, you can find it in the ASF section. <3

[Rhasputin]

more!!!

I love looking at rodents...that arent frozen....or about to be food in 5 min.


How do you get deer mice? Never heard of them.

*edit. So these are like "farm" mice? I get these bad boys in my walls in the winter.

I got them from a friend, who got them from someone who caught the mother in a live trap in her house, and noticed she was pregnant. Instead of letting the mouse loose to have the babies and do more breeding, she kept it, and it had the babies in captivity. I had the mother, and 2 of the 3 babies (someone else took the only female baby) and now I still have the two male babies, all grown up.