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Siamese and Himalayan: These are pointed varieties just like cats.
Siamese mice have a slightly darker body color than Himalayans do, but both varieties have darker points (noses, ears, etc.).
Brindle: Brindles can come in different colors and are striped a little
bit like brindle dogs are. At this time I don't intend to breed brindles but that may change in the future.
Roan: Roans have any color hair with white hairs mixed in evenly throughout.
The picture below is of a texel (long curly) black roan.
Merle: Merles are very much like merled dogs.
Basically, merles are roans with solid blotches of hair in some spots.
The doe below is a coffee rex fox merle. The white belly is 'fox', not 'merle', but the white hairs mixed into the coffee
color in some areas of her back are roaning. The partly solid, partly roaned pattern is what signifies her a 'merle.
Banded/Double banded:
Banded mice are colored with a white band around their waist, while double banded mice have either two separate bands
or one thick one.
The line I have that is descended from Blue Momma is double banded.
Blue Momma below had a broken band around her waist and a wavy band by her neck.
The baby below is CLR's Banana Split. He is a Blue Momma grandbaby out of CLR's Cotton (Blue Momma's son) and Aspen.
You can see that the band around his waist is almost perfect (a little wider in the middle but pretty good), and there is
also a little bit of a band by the neck.
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Tans: Tans can come in any top color with a tan belly.
These tans were bred at Confetti Mousery:
Foxes: Fox mice are basically tans only with c-locus dilutes that
bleach the tan color into a light cream to white color. Preference is given to white.
There is a distinct line that seperates the white underside from the color of the rest of the body. (YES, this mouse
is - of her own free will- hanging upside down from the lid of the tank)
You can see the distinct border of the white to the coffee along the side of this doe.
Angora: Angoras are longhaired mice. While pretty
in and of themselves, it is also necessary to have mice that are genetically angoras to end up with Texels.
This picture is not the greatest, but it shows her hair a little longer than standard-coated mice. Her hair happens to
be very shiny as well and it's hard to tell the length. Some angoras have longer hair or fluffier hair than others do (see
the second picture of the yellow angora), some of it depends on the lines they are bred from and some just on the individual
mouse and its age.
Broken Marked: Broken marked mice have solidly outlined white spots
of various shapes and sizes on their body.
Even-marked: Evenly marked mice have even markings on their bodies
with one spot having a corresponding spot on the other side of the back as well.
Irish Spotted:
Irish Spotted mice have a head spot of varying size and shape, four white paws and a white belly.
The baby below has a tiny headspot (they are usually bigger than that), and you can see four white paws. She also has
a white belly.
Variegated: Variegated is a type of marking where the spots are smudgy
looking instead of crisp.
Tri-color: Tri-colored mice are becoming more popular around the country.
They are mice with two different colors and white on them at the same time. The goal is generally to have both colors and
white clearly defined.
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Rex/Texel: Rex is a shorthaired curly coat type while Texel is the
longhaired curly type. Often the curl does not remain throughout the mouse's entire life.
The black rex below was bred at HB Mousery
in Illinois and is now a part of my mousery.
A black rex baby:
A silver rex juvenile (they end up looking like this- wavy):
A texel baby:
A texel juvenile:
Satin: Satin mice can come in any other coat type
(rex, texel, angora, etc.) but they are very shiny! Satins can be hard to photograph.
Julia below is an example of a satin mouse. The baby below her is a satin rex.
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